Safety should be the top priority on your list. Driving is a dangerous work activity which can contribute to work-related accidental fatalities and serious injuries. Therefore, it’s important to minimise the risks by:
- Keeping the vehicles well-maintained
- Ensuring drivers are trained properly
- Providing regular training programmes
- Reducing distraction by introducing clear policies such as Mobile Phone Usage Policy
- Ensuring effective route planning and optimisation to provide drivers with enough time and best routes to finish their job
- Having a clear accident procedure in place
Mental Health and Wellbeing
Poor mental health increases the risks of accidents. With this in mind, our article How mental health and emotional wellbeing can affect driving can be a good source to share with your drivers. You can also browse our Driver Factsheet Library here to help inform your drivers about some other important safety tips and considerations.
Visit Ben’s website which is a charity that supports people of the automotive industry, that has a full hand of helpful resources and information.