Best Driver Risk Management Performance 2025

Fleet Managers & Safety Professionals – is this you?

How do you rate your Driver Risk Management credentials? If you are working towards improving driver safety and reducing work related road risk, as so many of the Driving for Better Business community are, then it’s time you were recognised for your efforts.

National Highways is again celebrating the UK’s best performing safety managers and employers with their award for Best Driver Risk Management Performance at the Safety & Health Excellence Awards 2025.

Recognising risk management excellence

This award will be announced at The Safety & Health Excellence Awards on the 9th April 2025. These awards recognise employers who have taken a proactive, comprehensive, and consistent approach to the management of their work-related road risk. Safer drivers are involved in fewer incidents, cause less damage, less wear and tear on company vehicles and use less fuel.

The winners of this award will be able to demonstrate tangible improvements in driver wellbeing and safety culture.

They will have shown initiative, boldness, and exemplary management practices, in the same way as David Phillips Furniture, the winners of Best Driver Risk Management in 2024, were able to demonstrate.

Safety at Work Champions

Fleet Managers and Safety Managers are invited to apply before the 31st January 2025.

Driving for work is one of the highest-risk activities that most employees undertake. It is also a significant cost to the business. This award emphasises the mission of the National Highways Driving for Better Business programme – to improve safety and reduce work related road risk for all those who drive or ride for work, by promoting good management practice and demonstrating the significant business benefits.

Best Driver Risk Management Perfomance

The good news is that it is easy to enter. You can keep the information you submit simple. Not all of the judges are technical experts so they are looking for clear and precise entries that simplistically highlight the merits for their submission.

They will of course want evidence of significant improvements, such as a reduction in collisions, a safer working environment, fewer speeding offences, lower insurance premiums or improved fuel economy.

Key tips for your entry

1. Keep information simple
Please keep your sentences short and easy to understand – don’t assume the judges will understand acronyms or technical lingo.

2. Adhere to time period.
Include the risk management activities, campaigns or projects that have made a direct impact on your business or partner organisation from 1st January 2023 onwards. Any activity prior to this will not be considered.

3. Demonstrate the detail of your risk management successes.
The judges will want to know how and why the risk management activity was launched, and the positive impact it has made, so include verifiable evidence that demonstrates that the campaign/initiative/project has resulted in significant improvements.

You will be able to cover the level of detail required in 1100 words or less so it’s definitely worth taking a look at the criteria if you are managing driver safety in any capacity.

Details of how  to complete submissions are here:
Safety and Health Excellence Awards – Best-Driver-Risk-Management-Performance

The winner will be announced at the Safety & Health Excellence Awards at a dinner with 700 safety and health professionals, hosted by comedian Jason Manford, on 9 April 2025 at Vox in Resorts World, NEC Birmingham.

Last year’s Safety & Health Excellence Awards attracted more than 200 entries – so if your organisation would like recognition for the work you are doing in reducing work related road risk for your drivers and the road users they share the road network with, please enter now.