For any employee who drives a motor vehicle as part of their job description, that vehicle is defined as their place of work and is therefore subject to Health and Safety legislation.

As an employer of people who may drive a motor vehicle on a road as part of their job function, and in connection with your company business, you have a duty of care over that workforce, and are therefore duty-bound to provide professional driver training to keep them safe from harm on the road.  Even if you don’t actually supply the vehicle they use, the implications are the same. People have to be properly trained.

Despite the many press releases, and other publicity, very few organisations seem to have safety policies in place to protect both themselves from corporate liability or their workforce from harm under the terms of the legislation.  One day someone is going to be an example of, but does it have to come to that for people to sit up and take notice?

Company management and Directors can be held personally accountable if they or their organisation is prosecuted in the event of an industrial accident, an accident that may just be a road accident involving a company vehicle user who has perhaps not received an adequate level of training relating to their use of that vehicle.

At Ride Drive we can help to safeguard you and your organisation by providing a comprehensive driver training package that will take care of all your driver training needs.  Our dynamic driver risk assessment, which is built into every course option, is designed to provide a useful tool that can be incorporated as part of a company Health and Safety policy.

In addition to driver training we can also develop with you a corporate codes of practice policy, a document outlines company rules concerning the use of company vehicles and required level of driver behaviour.  This may not appear as a very pleasant step to take, but then we do not live in a very pleasant world, as the threat of litigation is ever present.

It is very easy to think that nothing unpleasant is ever going to happen, but unfortunately it does and more often than not it happens to those that have not prepared for it. Don’t let it be you that is caught out.