Driver Safety Zone
The Health & Safety Event is partnering with Driving for Better Business, to deliver a unique feature for delegates in the form of our Driver Safety Zone.
This zone will share vital information and resources with safety professionals who have responsibility for work-related road risk.
Collaborating with a number of specialist partners, this zone will provide invaluable information and expert support to any safety professionals who are responsible for managing work-related road risk.
We will be sharing expertise, leadership and best practice in the management of driver safety.
What to expect at the Driver Safety Zone?
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CPD Content
Three days of high-level content will look at the legal requirements of current legislation, what industry-recognised good practice looks like, how to improve safety culture in relation to driving for work, and what upcoming changes to official guidance will mean for businesses and their safety managers.
Suppliers
Speak to the delivery partners and organisations who are contributing to the improvement of work-related road safety and risk management. They will be onsite to share best practice, insight and guidance to you and your colleagues driving to work challenges.
Tools and guidance
Do any of your staff drive as part of their job? Start your driving for better business journey here and find out what you can do to improve the levels of compliance for all those who drive or ride for work. Access the tools and guidance to help you demonstrate leadership in the management and reduction of work-related road risk.
Driving for Better Business is a government-backed National Highways programme to help employers in both the private and public sectors reduce work-related road risk, control the associated costs and improve compliance with current legislation and guidance.
It is free to access and contains useful online tools and resources to help you evaluate practices, strengthen culture, enhance performance and demonstrate leadership in the management of work-related road risk.
Does anyone drive in your organisation?
Do you have employees who drive for work?
Do you have employees who use their own vehicle for work trips?
Driving for Better Business are building a tool to help managers and employers create, review and update their driving for work policies. Your answers will help them to understand how big the demand would be.
Please complete this quick survey (your answers will be anonymous).
SEMINAR AGENDA
10:30
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Driver Safety Theatre60 mins
- Driver Safety Theatre
This session is led by Simon and Charlotte who will be discussing a serious incident involving a cyclist and a van driver; but was it the driver’s fault or what is the employers?
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12:00
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Driver Safety Theatre45 mins
- Driver Safety Theatre
The Driving for Better Business team are launching a brand new, online resource that employers can use for free to write, review and communicate a good-practice driving for work policy to their workforce.
13:15
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Driver Safety Theatre45 mins
- Driver Safety Theatre
This session will look at the whole process of building a safe driving culture and motivating staff towards a safe driving-related goal and vision.
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14:30
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Driver Safety Theatre45 mins
- Driver Safety Theatre
Travis Perkins recently commissioned a major driver behaviour study, carried out by Dr Lisa Dorn, which identified three major areas for them to focus on in order to improve driver safety. Lisa and Karl will talk through the report findings and discuss how these learnings are being adapted for use with the Travis Perkins fleet and what other driver safety managers can learn from the report.
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10:30
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Driver Safety Theatre60 mins
- Driver Safety Theatre
This session is led by Simon and Charlotte who will be discussing a serious incident involving a cyclist and van driver; but was it the driver’s fault or what is the employers?
11:45
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Driver Safety Theatre45 mins
- Driver Safety Theatre
Following the Mock Trial in the previous session, Barrister Charlotte Le Maire, a regulatory law defence specialist, will explain some of the key areas where employers often fail to meet their obligations and how this can impact risk management within the company and the ability to offer a credible defence in the event of a serious incident.
13:15
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Driver Safety Theatre45 mins
- Driver Safety Theatre
The health and wellbeing of drivers is taking over greater priority as it becomes clear that cognitive distraction can have a major impact on driver safety. Our panel of experts will discuss how you can manage and minimise distractions whilst driving within your workforce of employees.
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14:30
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Driver Safety Theatre45 mins
- Driver Safety Theatre
This discussion will focus on the need for authentic top-down leadership as part of the driver safety culture. This is becoming increasingly important as clients seek to raise standards throughout their own supply chains.
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10:45
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Driver Safety Theatre60 mins
- Driver Safety Theatre
This session is led by Simon and Charlotte who will be discussing a serious incident involving a cyclist and van driver; but was it the driver’s fault or what is the employers?
12:00
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Driver Safety Theatre45 mins
- Driver Safety Theatre
This session follows on from the previous mock trial session which was centred around a serious road crash involving an at-work driver. Andrew will examine how the employer should conduct such an investigation, what to look for, where to look and how to act on your findings.
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