Webinar Wednesdays: Driver safety – Understanding & influencing drivers’ attitudes & behaviour to reduce risk

Tony Greenidge
CEO
IAM RoadSmart

A former fleet consultant, Tony joined IAM RoadSmart as Business Development Director in 2017 and is now interim CEO, leading the charity’s ongoing mission to bring improved safety to UK roads through driver education. The high-risk nature of business driving means that employers play a crucial role in supporting road safety via their fleet policies, driver training programmes and company safety culture. Tony will provide his insights on the challenges facing business fleets in the wake of COVID-19 and offer practical advice for businesses in need of an effective driver risk management strategy.

Dr Karen McDonnell CFIOSH
OHS Policy Adviser
RoSPA

A highly motivated advocate for safety and health, skilled in partnership working, with a track record of engaging with key stakeholders across the globe. Karen has a broad range of strategic and operational experience gained over 25+ years whilst working for RoSPA, a registered charity at the heart of accident prevention for the last 100 years.

RoSPA OHS Policy Adviser and a Past President of IOSH Karen presents an exceptional personal brand and has the ability to influence and motivate others to think out with or across traditional boundaries towards a ‘whole person whole life’ approach to accident prevention.

Hazel McGuinness
Safety Health & Environment Advisor
Royal Mail Group Safety, Health and Environment

Hazel has worked with Royal Mail for 24 years joining the business in 1996. Her current role is SHE Business Partner for the West of Scotland where she provides safety advice and support to functions across the business such as Delivery, Logistics and Engineering. She has a varied role in safety, undertaking audits and carrying out investigations in accidents and RTCs. Before this, Hazel held a role within fleet compliance and safety undertaking vehicle/driver audits, managing RTCs and driver training within the Scotland region. She spent several years in this role which followed on from her operational background as Transport Manager in the delivery function, leading a team of 40+ drivers in an O’Licence site. She has a wide and varied knowledge of vehicle and driver management, legislation and safety within fleet.

Marcus de Guingand
Managing Director
Third Pillar of Health Ltd

After graduating from Newcastle University with a degree in Economics and Social Policy Marcus embarked on a 6-year stint in the City of London as part of the Institutional banking team at RBS – a role which means he has a good understanding of the pressures many of us face in our day-to-day jobs. Marcus left banking in 2006 to bring a concept from the US to the UK in customised chairs to take controlled rest breaks (naps) during the working day.

In 2011 Third Pillar of Health was born after a split of the equipment and consultancy arms. Third Pillar of Health helps organisations improve key business metrics by helping staff overcome the debilitating health, safety and productivity effects of tiredness, sleep deprivation and fatigue through assessments, training, online learning and interactive workshops.

Our online sleep health self-assessment and training programmes have been developed in conjunction with leading sleep research scientists and Marcus has run numerous face-to-face and online training sessions for a wide variety of clients and job roles.

Marcus has recently embarked on a 3.5-year programme of work with Transport for London to identify key fatigue hotspots, to recommend interventions and to track the effectiveness of those interventions. Marcus has also worked with 13 UK police forces and household names such as Diageo, Oracle, “K” Line LNG, Simply Business, Innospec, Lend Lease, Unilever, Thames Tideway and many other organisations.