Driver Safety - how do you manage it? When it comes to driver safety, managing driver risk is one of the primary concerns for safety professionals: a booming gig economy; the steady increase in grey fleet use; the growth in online shopping and delivery; rapidly evolving vehicle technology; plus important revisions to the Highway
Safe Loading - Transport Chain Responsibility The Driving for Better Business Campaign is focusing on loading issues this month, so we asked Nina Day from the HSE to join us for the January episode of 'Let's Talk Fleet Risk'. Nina has worked for the Health and Safety Executive for 21 years. She’s a chartered
Raising Fleet standards leads to drop in fleet costs We recently had the pleasure of talking all things fleet with Phil Hitchen, Managing Director of the booming, 25 year old coach business, Belle Vue Coaches of Manchester, for the latest episode in our Driving for Better Business Podcast series. Listen to the podcast
Managing road risk in your business Managing road risk is at the heart of the Driving for Better Business Programme. It's becoming an increasingly important area for businesses that employ drivers, as high profile incidents involving driver distraction and driver fatigue make the news. It's not always easy to cut through the noise though,
Driving for work - revised guidance The Health and Safety Executive launched its improved and expanded guidance for the way we use commercial vehicles today, at The Health and Safety Event 2021 at the NEC, Birmingham. The guidance will be delivered by a new dynamic website delivering resources for those who manage drivers. The
UK Business Resilience - post COVID 19 Last year, Driving for Better Business published its Business Resilience report into how companies were dealing with the challenges they faced. This July we followed up with a survey of the same 150 SME business owners and 150 decision-makers at board level in large enterprises, to get
Driving in the rain With Storm Christoph causing severe flooding across the UK leading to thousands of residents evacuating their homes and road closures, the adverse weather conditions are causing additional work related road risk for drivers to navigate. Driving for Better Business speaks to Dave Harford - a Highways England Traffic Officer and
Mobile phone use - new law planned The recently announced Government consultation on mobile phone use is the latest step to be taken in an effort to improve road safety and close the current mobile phone use loophole. Roads Minister Baroness Vere unveiled government plans in October, which would mean that people using a
Fleet safety - good business sense Simon Turner, Campaign Manager for Driving for Better Business, was delighted to chat to the team at Volvo Car UK recently about fleet safety and how to manage it with good business in mind. Explaining why road safety is so important for fleets and businesses, Simon highlighted the
Sustainable mobility Has COVID-19 accelerated the drive for sustainable mobility? Figures for the first half of 2020 show a marked decline in new car sales, which was to be expected during lockdown but, hidden in there, is an equally significant rise in the sales of battery electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles. For June in
