Why is Fleet and Driver Risk Management important?
- Legal compliance
- Corporate Manslaughter Act 2007
- Road Safety Act (1988)
- Cause or permit risk on licences
- Health and Safety responsibilities
- Duty of care to employees
- H&S fines rocketed since 2016
- Brand risk
- Driver safety benefits
- Less collisions and associated costs
- Happier staff, lower turnover
- Corporate and Social responsibility
- Fleet costs
- Cost of collision itself and impact on insurance premiums, especially if death or serious injury claim
- Actual costs to the business could be between 4-32 times the ‘bent metal’ costs
- Lower return costs if leasing a vehicle
- Some insurers expect over 60% of a vehicle fleet to have a collision every year
- Brand reputation
- Lifetime to build a brand; a second to destroy it
- Demonstrate the business has done everything reasonably possible to reduce risks
Person running a fleet can be the…
- Fleet Manager
- Owner
- Finance Director
- Human Resources
- Safety, Health, Environment and Quality (SHEQ)
- other
Managers of fleets often have responsibility for:
- Duty of Care for drivers
- Vehicle buying, leasing and disposal
- Service, Maintenance & Repair (SMR)
- User-chooser lists of vehicles
- Legal compliance
- Fleet running costs inc. insurance
- Driver safety
- Fuel cards etc
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