Fleet
management
Protect your staff with GPS Vehicle Tacking
from just £10 per vehicle per month!
Health and safety legislation is
now so onerous for employers, that company directors are almost
as responsible for their employees' driving styles and driving
behavior as the employees themselves.
The employers'
'duty of care' obligations require mileage record keeping, working
hours management and accident reports to be 'spot-on' in their
accuracy, bringing Fleet Management
to the top of the corporate agenda and presenting increasingly difficult and expensive challenges for
businesses to satisfy.
For example, safe operation of fleets through
ensuring that only well-maintained vehicles are provided, is now the
responsibility of employers to demonstrate, rather than the
responsibility of employees driving the
vehicles.
So systems and processes
which
ensure that vehicle servicing schedules are being followed in line
with the vehicle odometer readings are now an essential element of
the corporate risk management programme.
And employers need to
show that in addition to having methods
in place to monitor their vehicle maintenance obligations,their employees' driving styles
are identified in risk assessments, with action being taken whenever non compliance or unacceptable driver behaviour is evident.
Just like the smoking ban
now covers every UK workplace, it is
only a matter of time before every company vehicle is expected to be
fitted with a tracking device which ensures that the company's
obligations are being satisfied and the driver is behaving
responsibly behind the wheel.
And, just like the
smoking ban, the initial 'driver for change' is already beginning to
come from insurance companies insisting that employers prove they
behave with due regard to their responsibilities. Because,
increasingly they are finding that those companies with effective
processes and procedures have a better insurance claim record than
those without them.
Because when drivers are aware that their exact route and speed can be monitored, it has an impressive impact on their driving style, their speed and their route planning.
And consequently, they are less likely to be involved in an
accident, and the costs of keeping them mobile fall significantly.
Thankfully technology is now up to the job of providing real solutions to these problems
with detailed reports being produced a 'the touch of a button'.
Internet activity
reports from our solutions include accurate journey start and stop times, time spent on sites, customer visits, the route taken, distance travelled,
speeds, time spent travelling, and much more ...
So the benefits don't end with simply satisfying
the directors' health and safety obligations. Because when the vehicle is being monitored - so is the driver,
which provides valuable information for cutting through to the
very heart of a company's operational efficiency.
We know when office-based personnel are working - because we can see them.
But now employers can
identify precisely when mobile staff leave home, arrive and leave
from customer premises, how many customer visits they make etc, etc.
And this protects both honest employees as well as honest employers.
The only people with something to fear from the technology, are those with something to
gain from hiding their activity.
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