Comprehensive e-learning and assessment tools to help you identify and minimise your drivers’ risk.
Accurate checking of the validity of a driver licence direct with the DVLA. The result, which includes a record of convictions, will form part of the driver risk assessment, part of Safe Driving Plus.
Reviews the running of your fleet and gives guidance on where action might be needed to meet the requirements of current legislation.
Classroom-based interactive seminar at any location in the UK, exploring individual attitudes to driving. Drivers learn about the causes of accidents and actions they need to take to avoid them.
Provides guidance for drawing up a fleet policy and driver’s handbook in accordance with the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.
An interview process with the driver, recorded in the management information system PACE, to establish the circumstances of the incident and whether there was anything that either the driver or the company could have done to avoid or reduce the effect of the incident.
All our occupational road risk management courses are supported by PACE, our task management database.
We will manage your drivers through every step of the risk management programme.
A short session to develop and build on the drivers knowledge of vehicle checking and routine maintenance.
A class room based seminar exploring individual knowledge relating to driving in winter conditions and illustrating the risks that people take on the roads. Drivers will learn how to read the changing conditions and adapt their driving style accordingly.
Make sure all your drivers, including ‘grey fleet’ drivers are legal and comply with your policy.
In-vehicle driver training is recognised as the most effective way to reduce incidents. Courses take place anywhere in the UK, in the vehicle the driver uses on company business.
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Provides a clear, visual and fully auditable record of the status and eligibility of individual drivers.
Training for all individuals with responsibility for managing those who drive a company vehicle.
Reduce the cost of fleet operation while also reducing the CO2 and local air quality impact of your fleet.
Provide selected individuals (H&S manager, fleet administrator) with the skills to support the company driver training programme and the staff for whom they have responsibility.
Comprehensive e-learning and assessment tools to help you identify and minimise your truck drivers’ risk.
Our assessments will allow you to take a pro-active stance in addressing the needs of all your drivers.
Our assessments will allow you to take a pro-active stance in addressing the needs of all your truck drivers.
Our Driver CPC is for LGV drivers who drive professionally throughout the UK.
Further reading:
Driving is probably the most dangerous thing you ask your employees to do. You have a duty of care towards your employees and the public, road traffic law and many other health and safety regulations cover driving at work.
Cardinus fleet driver training and driver risk assessment programmes are designed and created with clients’ specific needs in mind. They consist of a series of fleet driver training services, all customisable, assembled to form a unique framework to meet each client’s occupational road risk management needs.
Corporate audit and fleet risk report
A Cardinus corporate audit will help you with your business planning and may be used at the first stage of a fleet risk management programme or alongside your occupational road risk programme. The audit will:
- Help determine the exact fleet risk nature of your current work-related road safety practices.
- Guide stakeholders through the maze of legislation and legal obligations.
- Assess your current processes and produce a detailed fleet risk report.
- Make recommendations that improve control over the whole spectrum of the fleet operation.
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Fleet risk management workshop
This introduces stakeholders (fleet, HR, finance directors, senior managers, line managers and supervisors) to the basic concepts of proactive occupational road risk management and strengthens their understanding of fleet risk and the importance of driver risk assessment, safe driving practices and the implications of non-compliance.
Fleetsafe driving at work policy and handbook.
Every firm requiring an employee to use a vehicle for work has a duty under the Health and Safety at Work Act to provide a written safety policy and provide appropriate fleet driver training and guidance. We work with you to create your policy. It will be personalised to your requirements and contain appendices of sample forms, checklists and driver/management guidelines.
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Safe Driving Plus
Safe Driving Plus is an engaging, interactive fleet driver training software program that provides each of your drivers with the information they need to stay safe whilst driving. Along with fleet driver training and driver risk assessment modules, Safe Driving Plus includes a personal action plan (User Action Report) empowering your employees to take ownership of their risk profile.
Safe Driving Plus provides a comprehensive driver risk assessment module designed to help you identify and intervene with those drivers exposed to higher levels of fleet risk. Each driver’s risk assessment data is stored in the powerful Cardinus risk management database, PACE, where it can be easily managed by you and your management team.
Following the completion of the driver risk assessment, the User Action Report empowers your drivers to take direct responsibility for any issues. Based on the driver risk assessment and User Action Report, drivers will either undertake e-learning or be recommended for in-vehicle driver awareness training.
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Safe Driving Plus online e-learning
The objective of the fleet driver training is to reduce your driver’s risk of being involved in an accident by helping them to drive more safely. The informative interactive modules are designed to engage with your drivers, using a combination of interactive sequences, tests and quizzes to ensure longer-term knowledge retention.
The standard fleet driver training modules within Safe Driving Plus are:
- Introduction.
- Your vehicle.
- Are you fit to drive?
- Driving comfortably.
- Your driving behaviour.
- Safe driving technique.
- ABS, ESP and traction control.
- Motorways.
- Parking and reversing.
- Adverse weather.
- Your duty of care.
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Safe Driving Plus in-vehicle awareness fleet driver training
Fleet driver training sessions are normally conducted on either a one-to-one half-day, or two-to-one full day basis. Cardinus will arrange to meet your drivers wherever they are located. The trainer will help drivers to develop the strategies required to improve risk perception and decision-making.
Learning objectives:
- To identify behaviours/practices leading to loss or injury.
- To introduce ‘best practice’ coaching appropriate to all sources of identified risk.
- To reinforce the competence of existing behaviours/practices (strengths).
- To improve fuel economy and extend component life.
- To determine areas where further support/fleet driver training may be necessary.
At the end of each fleet driver training session the trainer will provide each participant with a risk profile that will highlight the strengths and risk factors identified during the drive, note any progress made and pinpoint areas that require further fleet risk management attention.
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Driver licence checking
Good fleet risk management includes a driving licence checking policy. To effectively manage your occupational road risk, licence checking needs to be a part of every driver risk assessment.
Licence checking complements your fleet driver training to help lower your level of fleet risk and improve the accuracy of every driver risk assessment. It also helps to protect your company from the consequences of a driver being involved in an incident while not holding the required documentation.
Cardinus Fleet helps you to undertake licence validation checks quickly and easily. We source, collate and analyse the data to produce a user-friendly and easily understood report telling you all you need to know about your fleet drivers, including: categories of licence held, current endorsements, name, address, driver number and the date they passed their test.
Data is sorted to identify the drivers that represent the highest risk in terms of accumulated endorsements. These drivers can be earmarked for further driver risk assessment, fleet driver training and other Cardinus fleet risk management services to help you to further reduce your fleet risk.
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‘Grey fleet’ business insurance and MOT checking
The process mirrors the DVLA licence checking process but combines Motor Insurer’s Bureau (MIB) information and Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (VOSA) with manual processes to create an on-going datelined procedure to ensure continued compliance in this area and reduce fleet risk. These checking processes save you many hours and reduce your organisation’s occupational road risk.
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Electronic driver permit
An electronic driver permit provides a clear, visual and auditable record of the status and eligibility of individual drivers and evidence of their driver risk assessment, training and licence validation, significantly reducing your occupational road risk. Grey fleet drivers must have a valid MOT certificate, appropriate business insurance and vehicle service validation. Permits should be renewed annually and reminders are provided in advance of their expiry.
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Outsourced management
Most of our clients want us to manage the whole fleet risk management process for them, allowing them to concentrate on their core business and still meet all of their fleet-related duty of care and fleet risk management requirements. Some clients want to run the programme themselves and we provide full and on-going training on the systems to meet all fleet risk objectives.
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Driver CPC compliance
For large and medium goods vehicle and minibus drivers who, under an EU Directive, need to gain their Certificate of Professional Competence, Cardinus runs a series of Driver CPC training sessions at convenient locations around the country. They enable your drivers to complete the mandated 35 hours of refresher training every five years. This is usually broken down into seven hours of training in one day per year.
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Also from Cardinus Fleet
Cardinus can provide task observer training to give selected individuals the skills to support the fleet driver training programme. A green fleet review provides analysis of your fleet, its activities and policies, including a defined carbon footprint for your vehicle operations and suggests ways in which your organisation can reduce carbon emissions. In a driver safety and economy seminar your drivers will learn about the causes of accidents and the actions they need to take in order to avoid them. A Cardinus driver safety pack is designed to make your driver’s workplace as safe as possible and in the unfortunate event of an incident, a trained Cardinus employee contacts your driver to conduct a post-accident interview to establish the circumstances and whether there was anything that either the driver or the company could have done to avoid or reduce the effect of the incident.
Working with Cardinus
The goal of Cardinus Fleet is to provide you with solutions that add value to your business. Our fleet risk management programmes and consultancy will help protect your company from prosecution while providing a return on investment in a very short period of time.
This document is not a comprehensive list of Cardinus fleet risk services but it will give you a clear indication of the range and quality of our services. You will see why responsible employers choose Cardinus to help manage their occupational road risk, to help to protect their staff, to reduce costs and to help achieve compliance.