Robert Gifford, Executive Director of the UK Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety (PACTS) was recently interviewed for the Fleet Safety Podcast. Rob provided some useful advice for organisations on on complying with legilsation relating to the use of mobile phones/cellphones, within the context of driving for work. Whilst his comments relate to the UK, they [...]
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Robert Gifford, Executive Director of the UK Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety (PACTS) was recently interviewed for the Fleet Safety Podcast. Rob provided some useful advice for organisations on on complying with the UK’s Corporate Manslaughter Act established in 2007, within the context of driving for work. “The important point about the corporate manslaughter act [...]
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I recently interviewed Robert Gifford, Executive Director of the UK Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety (PACTS) for the Fleet Safety podcast. PACTS is a registered charity and an associate Parliamentary Group. Its charitable objective is “To protect human life through the promotion of transport safety for the public benefit”. Its aim is to advise and inform [...]
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This is the third in a series of three interviews I conducted with James Burrows of Balfour Beatty PLC. In part three, James discusses selecting training interventions to reduce identified risks and geting senior management buy in to fleet safety programmes, as well as Balfour Beatty’s future plans in the area of driver safety. You can also listen [...]
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This is the second in a series of three interviews I conducted with James Burrows of Balfour Beatty PLC. In part two, James discusses establishing a driver safety strategy and the first stage of the process: assessing driver risk. You can also listen to the full interview on the Fleet Safety Podcast. Neil – Perhaps you could talk [...]
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James Burrows of Balfour Beatty PLC was recently interviewed for the Fleet Safety Podcast. This post is the first in a series of three that will outline some of the key advice and opinion that James provided in the audio interview. You can listen to the interview here, as well as read the highlights in this series of posts. [...]
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I recently interviewed James Burrows, Professional Services Manager at Balfour Beatty PLC for our new Fleet Safety podcast. Balfour Beatty are a major UK construction company, with over 50,000 employees worldwide and a committment to occupational safety, through their Zero Harm initiative. You can listen to the interview here (22m:30s) James set up Balfour Beatty’s [...]
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DriverMetrics© will be holding a conference for users of the Driver Risk Index™ on 28th February 2012 at Cranfield University, Bedfordshire, UK. Current DriverMetrics© customers are invited to attend, free of charge. Attendees will receive an update of the latest research followed by a session on up and coming new features within the DriverMetrics© system and [...]
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DriverMetrics© will be attending the forthcoming Fifth International Conference in Driver Behaviour and Training (ICDBT5), hosted by our parent organisation, Cranfield University and organised by DriverMetrics© Research Director, Dr Lisa Dorn. The ICDBT aims to debate new initiatives in the scientific enquiry of road user behaviour, education and training. The ICDBT has been hailed a success [...]
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Welcome to DriverMetrics© Fleet Safety blog. We intend to use the Fleet Safety blog to regularly share useful information on improving occupational driver safety, with a particular emphasis on driver behaviour. We will also provide regular updates on the resources available to organisations at DriverMetrics© and Cranfield University including the Driver Risk Index™, e-learning, short courses, conferences and educational programmes, [...]
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