It still comes as a surprise to many that about 33% of accidents involve motorists who are at work, and amazingly commercial vehicles just account for 10% of the total UK vehicle population! A third of all road accidents involve someone who is working and they account for somewhere in the region of 20 deaths and 250 serious injuries every week, costing business an estimated £3 billion per year.

Many employers consider that as long as their company vehicle has a current MOT, is taxed and fully insured and the driver has a current full driving licence their responsibility has ended! Not so, current health and safety legislation applies to work activities involved in driving. It seems that 75% of companies have not carried out an occupational road risk management strategy and these companies are clearly failing to provide the necessary and appropriate duty of care for their employees.

Advanced Driving courses are designed to help with road safety and improve driver’s skills in key driving areas. Advanced driving is not only for those people embarking on a driving career. It is about giving people more detailed information about car usage and passing on driving tips from people who are highly experienced drivers.

Vehicle safety is our focus when teaching advanced driving as is the control and positioning of the vehicle in a smooth and consistent manner. An attitude of courtesy should also be adopted and high standards of driving competence primarily based on good observation skills, anticipation and the ability to plan your journey.

Assessing occupational road risk and protecting your company is part of our business here at Bill Plant Fleetcraft. We take pride in our high level of services which we offer to you as the customer and believe in delivering measurable results.

Fleetcraft 

Improving road safety is very important to us here at the Bill  Plant driving school, this is why we developed the fleet services department within the driving school offering full corporate driver training services. We realise that the  management of occupational  road risk can be an area of confusion to many and are fully experienced in delivering full training packages to organisations.

We talk to corporations every day both large and small to not only assess their training needs but listen to what they are saying to make sure we give them the most efficient and relevant training.