As a leading provider of "driving at work" risk management, driver profiling and driver training solutions, DriveTech is able to provide an extremely high level of specialist advice.

Our expert team includes an experienced fleet manager and winner of the Fleet News 2002 Fleet Risk Manager of the Year Award, as well as individuals with previous fleet and/or health & safety experience with Johnson & Johnson, Dow AgroSciences Ltd, Dutch State Mining and ICI.

This expertise, combined with a wealth of experience, offers outstanding support in the area of driving at work risk management, health and safety, quality management and training.

DriveTech can provide clients with bespoke consultancy and outsourcing capability, such as:

• formulation, review or creation of 'at work' driving policies and procedures
• accident management administration
• fleet safety administrative support
• accident/incident analysis - an objective analysis of evidence to identify the potential causes of the incident, potential learning points and recommendation for appropriate follow-up training

A key part of any road risk management programme is ensuring that line managers ~ who are often in the best position to influence, change and measure on-going performance ~ understand the rationale and benefits of minimising occupational road risk.

DriveTech offers workshops to support this process that not only explain the hard facts but also the reality of undertaking an improvement programme and some of the challenges that it brings.

A growing number of companies have a strong commitment to health & safety and a need to ensure that their employees have valid driving documentation, the correct entitlement for driving a particular category of vehicle, a risk ‘profile’ and details of any driver training.

Historically, this information has either not been collected or it has been stored and kept in different, disparate systems. DriveTech has now developed an innovative ‘permit to drive’ scheme that acts as an internal ‘licence’ for companies, giving a complete ‘holistic’ overview of an individual’s profile and entitlements.

This scheme - and other similar initiatives - is underpinned by DriveTech’s IDB ( Integrated DataBase). DriveTech’s bespoke IDB integrates information from different data sources to provide a ‘portal’ for occupational road risk. In essence, it provides a repository for importing, managing and accessing driver information together with a suite of on-line web reporting showing:

• driver risk assessment
• documentation
• driving history
• driving licence details - 'entitlements', points, history
• driver training history

The Integrated DataBase can also be ‘skinned’ so that it has the look and feel of the client’s own internal systems. The database is fully maintained and supported by DriveTech’s own technical team which means there is no need to rely on any other third party organisations.

Understanding the circumstances - and the consequences - of an ‘at-work’ collision is a key component in reducing road risk costs. At DriveTech, our post accident training for line managers covers:

• conducting post accident interviews - tips and techniques for managers
• identifying circumstances and consequences of incident
• how to use the incident as a learning experience