If you employ people who will either drive their own vehicle, or one that is supplied by you and in connection with your business, you will already know what good sense it makes to provide them with good quality driver training. Apart from the fact that you will significantly reduce the risk of them becoming involved in a road collision, or other driving related incident, and reduce the potential for losses that are caused through having a member of your team absent from work for a long period through injury (or worse), you will no doubt be aware that you have a legal obligation to train your people properly to drive on the road.
The laws relating to corporate liability have some pretty tough penalties that apply to those who are found wanting when and if an enquiry is made into the death or injury of an employee following an accident, because when driving a motor vehicle for work purposes, it is classified as being at a place of work. That is why you will have invested good money and spent a lot of time employing the services of a driver training company to make sure that your drivers are properly trained. However, is that where it all stops? Is that as far as it goes, or do you need to do more?
Having invested a sum of money into training your people you have also invested in them as individuals, the return on that investment will be the significant reduction in their road injury risk potential. Making an investment in people, as far as training is concerned, will only be a sensible investment if it is maintained. If you enter into a training scheme, and do so on a one shot only basis, the money you have spent may be a total waste unless you continue to update the training to make sure that driving skills are kept to a high standard.
At Ride Drive Limited we recommend that following an initial driver training course, each delegate should receive at least a half-day of refresher training every 2-years. By making this investment you will actually save money in the long term, because fewer accidents at work will mean fewer working days lost, more economical fleet insurance premiums and a solid reputation concerning your company health and safety at work record. Now, isn’t that a good place to be in?
Contact Ride Drive today to ask about how to set up your company driver safety at work programme.
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