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Cover4Sure – The All in One Duty of Care Service Launched by E-Training World17/04/2008 07:29:57
A new duty of care service, offering fixed costs and spread payments, has been launched by E-Training World. Cover4Sure provides a risk assessment of a fleet’s on road activities to include the vehicles, job roles, scheduling and driver’s abilities. Draft policies are drawn up tailored to the company’s operations as well as a Driver Handbook. Online risk assessments identify the risk rating of each driver, supported by online or in-vehicle driver training where required. All of which...
Driver Training Sector Not Ready to Cope With Impact of New Corporate Manslaughter Law
17/04/2008 07:18:53
The driver training sector is on the verge of meltdown if the new Corporate Manslaughter Law causes fleet managers to dramatically increase their focus on driver risk assessments and driver training. Graham Hurdle, who has been a fleet road safety expert for 20 years and is now managing director of E-Training World, gave his stark warning after a debate raged over the level of awareness with fleet managers regarding the Corporate Manslaughter Law. One Poll had suggested that 69% of fleet...
Mollycoddling of Company Vehicle Drivers Will Increase the Dangers on Our Roads
07/12/2007 15:00:44
Stringent health and safety laws that make company directors increasingly responsible for the safety of their at-work drivers will start to have an adverse effect on driver safety, a leading expert is claiming. Graham Hurdle, managing director of E-Training World, the online driver training specialists, believes that the onus placed on companies is now so great that company car drivers are taking less and less personal responsibility for their own safety, and for the safety of their vehicles,...
Pressure of Work Causing Drivers To Ignore Vital Road Safety Policies
06/11/2007 16:20:10
Company car drivers are not taking vital breaks from driving due to the pressures of work, and many are not conducting important checks on their vehicles to ensure they are roadworthy. These worrying statistics come from a survey conducted by E-Training World, the specialist provider of online driver risk assessments and e-driver training solutions to the fleet sector. The survey, of 217 drivers found a massive 82.7% of drivers are not conducting regular vehicle checks of tyre pressures,...
Eyesight Tests Being Overlooked As Drivers Blindly Take To The Roads
23/10/2007 16:38:03
Almost half of company car drivers (45.6%) on UK roads have not had an eyesight test in the last 3 years, and nearly 30% (29.4%) have not had their sight tested in the past 5 years, or at all. These worrying statistics come as a result of analysis conducted by online driver assessment and e-driver training specialist E-Training World, which examined data from 340 drivers from some of the UK’s biggest fleet operators who have recently completed E-Training World’s online risk assessment. And...