WASTE RECYCLING Cameras cull council claims
SINCE equipping its fleet of refuse vehicles with hard disk recording camera systems Hull City Council has seen a dramatic drop in insurance claims.
Mark Toalster, Senior Transport Supervisor, Hull City Council, said: “We initially fitted the camera systems to 14 new vehicles in 2017. Four out of the first five claims we received were dropped as soon as we were able show footage proving that the private vehicles in question were damaged prior to our vehicles making their rounds.”
The five-camera recording systems were provided by vehicle safety technology company, Innovative Safety Systems Ltd (ISS), primarily to help the council monitor collections for health and safety reasons. However, the resulting reduction in false insurance claims means that the systems more than pay for themselves, and the council has since fitted the systems to a further six vehicles.
ISS has also installed an automatic footage download facility, LANlink, whereby recorded footage from each vehicle can be downloaded immediately
by WiFi as they return to the depot. There is no need to manually remove data from the vehicles and the footage can be easily accessed and interrogated via the council’s back office systems. The system also provides an automatic ‘daily health check report’ which qualifies the operational status of each vehicles camera via an email link.
The council uses the footage during driver competence training to provide
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