Road Safety
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Specsavers launches Driving Eyesight Toolkit
A Driving Eyesight Toolkit is launched today by Specsavers Corporate Eyecare. The toolkit aims to provide employers and their employees with all the information they need regarding the regulations and requirements for driver eyesight. Employers For employers, the Driving Eyesight Toolkit clearly sets out the employer’s responsibility for drivers under health and safety regulations. It…
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Licence Bureau signs up own staff for driver eyecare
Well known for its service checking employees’ validity to drive, Licence Bureau has now signed up to driver eyecare eVouchers for its own staff, to help ensure they are safe to drive. Over the last 18 months, Licence Bureau has, as an additional benefit, given in excess of 10,000 Premium Club Vouchers to its clients.…
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Robust Licence Checking System leads to drivers self policing
Pimlico Plumbers George Lusham highlights how having a robust licence checking system leads to drivers self policing. All vans are fitted with telematics, enhancing the robust-ness of Pimlicos’ occupational road risk policy, while also ensuring its operations team can simultaneously monitor the location of tradesmen so new jobs can be allocated efficiently. Since joining the…
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FTA Driver Crisis Summit 2015
The logistics industry has yet again delivered a fantastic Christmas but this year not without its biggest challenge – of having enough drivers. The shortage of qualified and experienced HGV drivers is now a chronic problem for road freight operators and the problems experienced in the run-up to this Christmas will persist into 2015 and…
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Brake Fleet Survey 2015
Please help Brake promote fleet safety by answering this survey on your fleet, company or organisation. This will help with benchmarking of the technology available to vehicles in fleets and help Brake promote road safety. Click here to take the BRAKE Fleet Safety Survey Everyone who completes the survey will receive two free Brake guidance…
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Fleets should remind drivers of new Scottish drink driving laws
Companies, particularly those in Scotland or close to the border, are being urged to remind drivers who drive in Scotland of the recent change in legislation surrounding drink-drive limits. Scotland’s new laws were introduced on 5 December 2014, bringing the new limit down to 50mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood, compared to the rest…
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44% of employers concerned employees may not see adequately to drive
Research* carried out by Specsavers Corporate Eyecare reveals that 44% of employers surveyed state they are concerned that some employees may have eyesight that is not adequate for driving. Despite this, only a third (just 35%) of employers surveyed include testing the eyesight of drivers as part of their driver policy and more than half…
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Death and serious injuries on UK roads increased by 4%
Figures released today by the Department of Transport for 2014 show that people killed and seriously injured on UK roads has risen. With deaths and serious injuries on UK roads having increased by 4% in the year ending September 2014, with deaths up by 1%. In reported road traffic accidents for the year ending September…
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Road deaths increased by 4% in 2014
In reported road traffic accidents in 2014: Road deaths increased by 4% compared with 2013, rising to 1,775 The number of people seriously injured increased by 5% to 22,807 in 2014 There was a total of 194,477 casualties of all severities in reported road traffic accidents during 2014 A total of 146,322 personal-injury road traffic…
