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Driving for Better Business
Driving for Better Business is a Highways England campaign, supported by the Government and Health and Safety
Executive, to raise awareness of the importance of managing work-related road risk effectively, and the significant
business benefits that can be achieved by doing so. The campaign, and the extensive resources, are free to access
for all employers.
Sharing Good Practice
The campaign is based around sharing good practice – Employers who can demonstrate how this approach has
led to significant benefits for their business are invited to share the details of their approach: how they met their
legal compliance obligations; how they identified areas for improvement; what actions
they took; and the benefits they achieved as a business.
Better management of those who drive for work can...
• reduce collisions and collision repair costs
• reduce maintenance costs
• reduce fleet insurance and excess costs
• reduce third party claims costs
• reduce business miles, fuel use and emissions
Supporting Employers
What links these companies is that they all made sure they got the basics right first, such as legal compliance, and
starting to measure and monitor fleet activity. We aim to help and support employers to get these basics right by
providing guides and examples to follow, as well as ideas to help them continue their journey and pursue good
practice.
Our free resources include...
• free legal compliance and work-related road risk guides
• free online risk assessment tool
• free examples of ‘Driving for Work’ policies/handbooks
• free interviews with fleet risk management experts
• free in-depth features on issues such as ‘Grey Fleet’
These resources include real-life Driving for Work policies and handbooks, as well as case studies that explain in
more detail how these policies were implemented, especially where they cover mobile phone use. Some of our
examples allow use of hands-free mobile phones, as they are legal, but stress that they can still be a distraction
and often set clear guidelines for their use.
You can download these policies and many other resources for free at www.drivingforbetterbusiness.com
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