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Welsh road safety event targets businesses
publication date: Sep 3, 2010
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author/source: Robin Roberts
| | | Two of Britain's largest employers that are in
the vanguard of promoting occupational road risk management will be
among the speakers at a major Driving for Better Business event being in
held in conjunction with South Wales Police and Vale of Glamorgan based
Professional Driver Services.
British Telecom and
Tesco.com, which are both long-established business champion members of
the government-backed Driving for Better Business campaign, which is
managed by RoadSafe, will be helping to encourage Welsh companies to
increase their focus on at-work driving safety and so reduce road
crashes and cut costs.
The Driving for Better Business Wales event on
29 September is being held at the South Wales Police Driver Training
Unit in Cardiff. Almost 100 businesses based in Wales are expected to be
represented at the event to hear a wide range of speakers.
Apart
from hearing the actions taken by both British Telecom and Tesco.com to
improve employee safety when driving and reduce their risk exposure,
delegates will also hear presentations from Caroline Scurr, director of
the Driving for Better Business Campaign; Nick Croft Assistant Chief
Constable and director of the training department for South Wales
Police; Trevor Wedge, chief examiner of the Driving Standards Agency;
Lisa Dorn, head of traffic research at Cranfield University; and Hazel
Padmore, from leading law firm Weightmans.
| There are an estimated up
to 200 road deaths and serious injuries a week resulting from crashes
involving at work drivers, and more employees are killed and seriously
injured on Britain's roads while driving on behalf of their employer
than in any other work-related activity.
Ms Scurr said, "Due to the
campaign and the promotion of the benefits of occupational road risk
management by the almost 50 business champion employers from across the
public and private sectors, an increasing number of organisations are
realising that pro-actively managing at-work driving is good for their
staff and for their organisation.
"Our business champions such as
British Telecom and Teco.com can prove that reducing the number of
crashes involving at work drivers saves thousands and, in the case of
large fleets, millions of pounds. In addition, cutting the carnage
improves business efficiency, employee welfare and the image of an
organisation.
| AN in-depth look at how reduced public spending could impact on strategies to prevent accidents on the UK's roads will be the focus of RoSPA's 2011 Road Safety Congress.
The event, taking place from February 14-16 at the Marriott Hotel City Centre in Bristol, will be the charity's 76th annual gathering for road safety researchers, practitioners and policymakers.
The programme is currently being developed and RoSPA has issued a call for papers, including case studies, from the UK and overseas.
Potential speakers are invited to outline presentations that focus on the future of road safety in the new economic climate. |
"The result is complete legal compliance and a
measurable contribution to business efficiency with savings that go
straight to the bottom line as a result of putting in place a range of
interventions. We are delighted to be working with both PDS and South
Wales Police to further promote the benefits of at-work driving safety
to employees in Wales."
Rebecca Ashton, of Vale of Glamorgan-based
PDS, said, "The event aims to bring together employers, academics and
road safety experts to encourage more employers in Wales to address the
legal, moral and financial reasons to manage work-related road safety
with the business benefits highlighted through the two case studies."
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