FLEETDRIVE
• The law and what has changed . Including the new Industrial or Corporate Manslaughter legislation and how it applies to fleet managers .
• Systems thinking and the evolution of accident causation .
• Vehicle selection and how to tell if it ’ s the right one for the job .
• Vehicle safety and maintenance and the ramifications of not carrying this out .
• Monitoring vehicles and drivers through telematics .
• Vehicles as part of employment and remuneration and the consequences of inappropriate use .
• Action planning and prioritising for their organisation .
Early next year all of the participants will be invited back for a post-course workshop where they will discuss the application of their action plan and look at how these changes have improved their risk grading over a 6-month period .
Participants feedback was overwhelmingly positive , and they reportedly enjoying the indepth discussion and use of case studies to examine different issues . The small group size also allowed participants to hear what people at other organisations were doing and how they were tackling vehicle safety .
The reality is there is no ‘ silver bullet ’ for keeping workers safe on the road . Establishing an effective safety management strategy for a mobile workforce takes significant time / years to successfully implement and thus should be viewed as an investment . A safety-managed fleet is an efficient , resilient fleet , ensuring reduced business interruption and often uninsured downtime , from a service-delivery point of view . The strategy should be based around Safe Systems approach and underpinned by the hierarchy of risk Creating a safety management strategy can be easy , but the hard part is implementing and converting it into tangible actions which manages expectations and resourcing .
Zurich Resilience Solutions can help businesses better understand their motor fleet operations and exposures , as well as evaluate existing management controls . Our aim is to reduce their total cost of risk over time . With carefully selected third parties , we provide solutions for coaching , training and driver behaviour technology , to complement our in-house expertise at conducting motor fleet risk assessments . Our risk grading scores are used to articulate overall risk quality and benchmark those results with other fleets .