Driver Training and Fleet Risk Assessments
Risk assessments
We offer a specialised service to view and if necessary amend your current risk assessments. In the current climate companies need to go further than train just one or two' drivers. A suitable policy needs to be in place covering all potential eventualities and ensuring employees have regular reviews and updates.
We can assess any of your team members and determine who would potentially benefit from a variety of different training options. From theory assessments to on road driver training. We offer tailored packages to suit your companies individual needs.
Written assessments are provided both from the training session and full written reports will follow indicating any future training recommendations. Our training packages will fully satisfy the need to 'take reasonable steps' to ensure the safety of your workforce and any others who may be put at risk by your work related activities.
Any member of your staff who drives as part of their work must be covered by these risk assessments. The secretary who nips out to get a stamp is driving for work, it doesn't have to be the company representative!
We can tailor a package to ensure
- fulfil current HSE obligations
- save on fuel and maintenance costs
- reduce insurance premiums or ensure insurance cover is available
- ensure employees are working and not 'off sick'
- you do not leave your company open to possible 'no win no fee' type insurance claims that are sweeping the country
- It is estimated between a 25 and 33% of all? fatal road traffic accidents involve someone who was working at the time.
- Over 60% of company vehicles are subject to an insurance claim annually.
- Company car drivers are TWICE as likely to have an accident, than domestic drivers.
- 3500 road accident deaths occur each year. That's 10 per day, nearly 1000 of these deaths are estimated to be work related.
- This equates to FOUR times more deaths on the road than at work premises
- The Health & safety Executive has reported that over 77,000 injuries per year to employees are caused in Road Accidents while the employee was at work.
- There are 3 million company owned vehicles in the UK. Yet in 2004 less than 1 in 10 companies gave their drivers any additional information or training on how to reduce their road risk.
- A company car driver covering 25,000 business miles per year (That's only 500 miles per week) is as likely to be killed in a road accident as a construction worker is on a building site.
- It is estimated that 10% of company car drivers are using vehicles with driving licences that are not fully valid or have out of date information.
- More and more insurance companies are insisting that company fleets have an accident risk management strategy in place before they will consider providing cover.
Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide act 2007
The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 has now been passed by parliament and will come into force in April 2008. The delay will allow companies time to make sure their systems and procedures are in place.
Under the new approach, courts will look at management systems and practices across the organisation, providing a more effective means for prosecuting the worst corporate failures to manage health and safety properly. This is an opportunity for employers to think again about how risks are managed. The offence does not require organisations to comply with new regulatory standards. But organisations should ensure they are taking proper steps to meet current legal duties. From next April, the 2007 Act will mean that those who disregard the safety of others at work, with fatal consequences, are more vulnerable to very serious criminal charges.
In addition more Injury lawyers are advising clients of the ease of which out of court settlements can be obtained from work related road crashes involving companies without a structured health and safety policyWhy Work-related driving? It is estimated that nearly 1000 people are killed and over 100,000 injured each year while driving for work. That's nearly 4 times more than all other work-related deaths added together.
This is an area that companies need to look at very seriously. All driving done for work purposes could put you and your company at risk, so as an organisation you will need to manage and control not only your vehicles but also the men and women who drive them. This equally applies to those who use their own vehicles for work. All driving done for work purposes should be risk assessed and managed in a way that shows you have carried out your �duty of care� obligations. This affects companies of all sizes so please don't think because you are a smaller organisation it doesn't concern you because it does.
All workplace fatalities, including road accidents, may now result in an investigation by the Health & Safety Executive and the Police working together to see if your systems and practices were in any way responsible for the cause of the accident. This means it is imperative that you have in place systems that will stand up to scrutiny should the unthinkable happen.
We can work with you to put in place a road risk strategy aimed specifically at your work-related driving which will cover the three areas any accident investigation will centre around.
Course costs
To obtain a competitive quote for your business needs please contact us on 0800 44 88 040 or email fleet@aspect-drivertraining.co.uk . Our rates? will depend on individual company requirements. The cost per driver will depend on a number of factors:
- The number of drivers requiring training
- Availability of drivers and numbers available at the same time
- Theory or practical training requirements
- Classroom or in car based training
- UK location
- Previous training regimes
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