A major national company was recently rewarded for the success of its ten-year fleet risk-management programme.
British Telecommunications (BT) received a Prince Michael International Road Safety Award for the programme, which has seen the company slash its collision numbers, rates and costs.
The judges were reported as being extremely impressed by BT’s comprehensive, management-led programmes, policies, processes and procedures for people who drive on company business, and for extending the programme to include a wide range of employees and their families.
The award was announced at the BT-hosted European Transport Safety Council’s Preventing Road Accidents and Injuries for the Safety of Employees (PRAISE) conference in front of 150 attendees from a range of European businesses and government agencies.
Dave Wallington, BT’s Group Safety Advisor said: ‘We were delighted to accept this award in recognition of the sustained, long-term nature of our programme, which has engaged almost 100,000 people through our online Starting Point driver risk assessment, monitoring and improvement programme, supported by a range of targeted organisational, management, driver, vehicle and journey-based interventions.’
Ed Dubens, president and CEO of Interactive Driving Systems, whose Virtual Risk Manager system and tools has supported BT’s fleet-risk programme over the past 10 years said: ‘As far as we are aware, BT’s is the biggest and most sustained long term-work related risk management programme in the world, and we are delighted to have helped provide the tools, expertise and resources to have supported it from the beginning. There is no doubt that BT is an industry leader in this area and continues to show the way – by adopting approaches that many other organisations continue to wish to benchmark against.’
Despite its achievements, including halving its motor collisions and cutting its direct costs by approximately £12 million per year, BT is not standing still; over the next 12 months initiatives are in place to focus on extending its risk data-warehouse by adding further government and telemetry-based data, as well as rolling out the programme to its increasing number of non-UK based people.
