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BRAKE PUBLISHES GUIDANCE
REPORT Brake, the road safety charity, has published a crucial guidance report for fleet managers and HR professionals, in collaboration with Quartix.
‘Managing road risk: a guide for senior managers’ is essential reading for all professionals with responsibility for ensuring the safety of vehicles and at-work drivers.
The guidance outlines how to make the business case for fleet safety, including cost saving, legal compliance, and moral and social responsibility. Practical advice on how managers can shape their workplace driving culture is also presented through best practice case studies.
In addition, advice laid out in the report shows the vital need for company policies and procedures to be implemented and enforced by those who supervise at-work drivers.
Zari’aat Masood, Professional Engagement Officer at Brake, said: “Driving is the most dangerous activity most employees engage in, and it is vitally important that organisations are making positive steps to manage their at-work road risk. This report provides best practice guidance, and I would encourage anyone involved in managing occupational road risk to draw on the knowledge shared in it.”
Andy Kirk, Sales and Marketing Director at Quartix, said: “Quartix is delighted to be supporting Brake. This guidance report is an excellent tool for both employers and employees; it will help them adopt safer driving practices and reduce the number of collisions on our roads. We’ve designed our Safe Speed contextual speeding alerts with health and safety in mind, so teaming with Brake is a natural partnership.”
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MENTAL HEALTH ‘LEFT OUT’ OF WORKPLACE
WELLBEING Employers are still not recognising the importance of mental health in their health and safety policies, a safety consultant has said.
Paul Makoff-Clark, Managing Director at Kent Safety Solutions, a quality, health, safety and environmental (QHSE) consultancy, warned that employers are failing to consider the impact of mental health as part of their health and safety procedures, despite the significant number of working days lost due to stress and other mental health-related issues.
Statistics from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) indicate there were approximately 12million days lost due to stress, depression and anxiety in 2015/16.
Although there is a legal requirement for organisations to have health and safety procedures in place, many employers focus just on the safety aspect when implementing policies and carrying out risk assessments.
Paul said: “Safety controls are relatively straightforward to
implement. But mental health is much more difficult to consider from a risk perspective due to the difficulties posed by pre-existing health conditions, less evident risks and potentially longer-term consequences.
“Mental health, particularly stress, is being left out of health and safety processes such as risk assessments. With many credit-crunch roles remaining unfilled and one person taking on additional responsibilities along with time-fixed deadlines so prevalent in many industries, especially construction, work- related stress is responsible for a phenomenal number of days lost due to absence.”
Paul added: “The HSE has excellent – and free – tools for testing and monitoring stress at work, yet these tools are underutilised.
"Sadly, mental health is still not embedded in an organisation’s everyday thinking – it’s just not considered in risk assessments. Very few employers are asking, ‘how do I avoid damaging my employees’ mental health because of workplace stress?’ and they absolutely should be.”
Mental Health Awareness Week took place from 8th – 14th May 2017.
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