SHE EXPO 2016 SHOW GUIDE
FINE TUNE YOUR FLEET
RoSPA and Driving Monitor are set to shine a light on all that is current in the world of Vehicle Management at this year’s Safety & Health Expo in the Fleet Safety Theatre. Here RoSPA’s Fleet Safety Audit Manager, Colin Knight, explores the steps line manager’s can take to keep their drivers safe.
With around one quarter to one third of all crashes on UK roads involving someone who was driving for work, one of the fundamental skills of anyone responsible for fleet safety management is the ability to connect and engage with drivers, to promote driver safety and wellbeing. However, all too often line managers are catapulted into running a fleet from another part of the business, and as a result end up focusing on productivity and efficiency rather than health and safety.
A PAPER MOUNTAIN For many line managers, health and safety paperwork only exists in case something goes wrong rather than to educate, inform and improve driver safety standards. Unfortunately, this can lead to a lack of accountability and responsibility from both management and drivers, as the paperwork that sits in the filing
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cabinet or lies dormant on the hard drive has little or no value on a day- to-day basis.
The bottom line is, even if an organisation has all of the paperwork in place - risk assessments, driver training records, driving licence records, vehicle checks, telemetry data - it won’t stop a crash from happening, the only thing that can do that is people!
CLEAR VISION It’s essential, therefore, for line managers to translate their behavioural safety skills towards fleet safety management. It may sound obvious, but for many managers under pressure to reach productivity and efficiency targets, driver and vehicle safety often get compromised, or in some cases, completely overlooked.
An increased responsibility for safety, an attention to the cultures and lifestyles of drivers and, not least,
an awareness of the organisational pressures that drivers are placed under, is crucial to ensure driver safety and well-being remain at the forefront of an organisations philosophy. In the case of running a fleet of vehicles in sectors such as energy, logistics and retail, there is little more dangerous than an ‘us and them’ mentality between the management and the driving populations. The message of safety should be underpinned by a clear vision and strategy and, more importantly, understood by everyone within the organisation, from the CEO downwards.
THE BLACK CLOUD
SYNDROME This is a term used to describe a poor or fragmented organisational safety culture relating to driving for work. Although this term may sound unfamiliar, nearly every organisation has one to some extent. Here’s an example that might be familiar.
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