Driver Distraction

February 2025

Driver Managers – improve your understanding

Our monthly fleet focus delves deeper into some of the key road safety topics to improve your understanding, with free resources for you to share with your drivers.

Each month’s topic sits in a library so, as the library grows each month, you can access a bank of resources at any time to help you improve driver safety in your organisation.

ACCESS THE FULL FLEET FOCUS LIBRARY

Your Drivers – Your Responsibility

Your Call to Action:

Ensure you have the driving for work policies you need in place for driver distraction – check out our policy template here
Ensure everyone involved – managers, supervisors as well as your drivers – are aware of their responsibilities
Don’t be afraid to challenge your drivers about distracted driving

Distracted Driving

Driving is for the most people the most dangerous activity they can do.

We know that in the great majority of cases the initial cause of a crash is around driver behaviour, with distraction, often by mobile phone, both hands-free and
handheld, being a major issue. These crashes can so easily result in severe injury or fatality.

It’s vital that as an organisation, and as a manager or owner you are confident that your drivers understand the importance of not being distracted when driving. Distraction can lead to charges of death by dangerous driving or death by careless driving, resulting in severe penalties, prosecution and even imprisonment.

Hands-free calls are dangerous. Drivers should not answer work calls until they are parked somewhere safe to take the call. And remember, distraction comes in the form of other activities as well – eating, reading and anything that takes their attention and focus away from their key task of driving.

So, how confident are you that your drivers will not be distracted when driving? Do you have a strict no-mobile policy, which requires phones to be turned off or blocked while driving?