Monday, October 28, 2013

Drivers Need To Put The Safety First Before Setting For Speeding Their Cars

Drivers always face ongoing pressure for delivering goods and services on time, while also dealing with roadway congestion and other various distractions. According to studies, the majority of drivers admit of eating or using a cell phone for conversation while they drive leading them to jam their cars most often! Relevant survey studies state that about a quarter of drivers tend to read or take care of personal grooming while driving. However, all the drivers are affected by the safety implications that are caused by various distractions.

Studies consistently show that the top contributors to deadly crashes are both the external distractions and driving behaviours, which include driving too fast for the conditions, speeding around curves, and taking to illegal manoeuvres. However, the driving schools can’t do much about these external distractions. Driving behaviour is something they can hardly influence.

These driving schools have many fleet managers who create programs that bring together various safety-related communication techniques, incentives, and training for promoting a safe driving culture. Various consulting groups work with these managers to get in an organization’s crash history. They tend to identify improvement targets, and build in new personality for weaving a safe driving culture.

Some areas that need to be taken a good care of can help encourage safer driving culture are routing, scheduling, and dispatch.  Investing in a safe driving corporate culture can often pay off in threefold way. As, it help drivers stay safe, reduces crash costs, and minimizes the risk to an organization. Jeff Colburn, leader of UK Marsh Risk Consulting once said that the “current health and safety legislation places much responsibility on the employer for employees involved in driving collisions while working”.

There remains a belief among some employers that they don’t need to worry unnecessarily about managing occupational road risk if their employees drive in their own vehicles, or if a fleet management company handles its fleet efficiently. However, this remain unaffected irrespective of whom the vehicle belongs to! The management of occupational road risk also remains the responsibility of the employer.

It is essential in creating a safe driving culture involving communication safety means across the entire globe. This means that from board leadership down to each driver, the importance of driver safety needs to be implemented much as a mission for making the roads a safe place to travel.



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