With June set to be one of the wettest on record, and further flooding set to hit the UK this week, the unseasonably heavy rain is resulting in unusually wet roads with many areas prone to flooding. It is a timely reminder for organisations that have employees driving for work purposes to ensure they are
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As part of the United Nations Global Road Safety Week (6-12 May 2019) which this year has the theme of Leadership, Highways England is hosting the Driving for Better Business Private Sector Summit, for CEOs and Board Directors of some of the UK’s leading businesses, at McLaren’s inspirational new Thought Leadership Centre. Highways England operates
Highways England are now collaborating with partners in the public sector to deliver improvements in work-related road safety using the Driving for Better Business programme. The public sector part of the programme was launched with a high-level event at the Houses of Parliament in January bringing together leading figures from the public sector to
The Devon and Cornwall Police ‘No Excuse’ team has been cracking down on poor driving and poorly maintained vehicles as part of Operation Logjam – a pre-Christmas multi-agency initiative in the South West with a focus on light commercial vehicles. Aided by staff from the Peninsula Road Safety Partnership and Highways England, 560 drivers
Driving for Better Safety is an eBook on assessing work-related road risk produced by SHP online in collaboration with Driving for Better Business. It looks at: The dangers your drivers face on the roads The likelihood that your business could be affected How to decrease the risks What best practice looks like Case studies of
Highways England and the Department for Transport are implementing a Government programme to help reduce the number of collisions and casualties on our roads and in so doing reduce the considerable pressure on resources, both human and financial. To support this programme, Highways England – the government-owned company responsible for the maintenance and operation of
There are an estimated 14 million grey fleet vehicles on UK roads being used for business journeys. Regardless of the reason for the journey – whether your employee is driving to a customer meeting half way across the country or driving to the shop to pick up milk during the working day – their
Grey fleet drivers represent one of the single most at-risk groups for businesses today. Why? Because many businesses with active grey fleets simply do not realise the level of responsibility they have. The law is clear - Quite simply, the grey fleet needs to be managed in exactly the same way as company owned
A key area of the grey fleet market that is frequently overlooked is the way it’s being fuelled by a growing tendency for cash allowances to be offered to employees. Employees often see a cash allowance as a win-win situation; if they do already have a car in the household, it makes running it
