Safer business driving
promoted in Nottingham

A special training event is being organised by the Nottinghamshire Road Safety Partnership to help businesses of all sizes adopt driving practices that will reduce collisions, save lives and reduce operational costs.
The Nottinghamshire Driving for Better Business Seminar will be held on Tuesday June 16, 2015 at Nottingham Trent University’s Nottingham Conference Centre. Its core aim is to encourage local companies to adopt or renew an occupational road risk policy as part of their overall health and safety policy in line with duty of care guidelines.
Steve Hunt, Head of Nottingham City Council’s Traffic and Safety team said: "Every day in the UK more than 150 vehicles being driven on company business crash. In fact, one in three road crashes involves a vehicle being driven for work. This results in injuries and deaths that could be avoidable if proper risk reduction practices were followed. It also adds a massive cost burden to the businesses involved.
"This seminar will showcase examples of how major businesses reduce collisions and contribute to the overall improvement of road safety, whilst at the same time reducing fleet costs and saving money.”
The seminar, sponsored by Mitie and Interactive Driving Systems, is targeted at businesses that operate across the city and county and will demonstrate the business case for managing occupational road risk through case studies from business champions such as; Robert Lyndsay, Driver Risk Manager for Balfour Beatty and Jonathan York from British Gas.
Driving for Better Business has been brought in to help organise and promote the seminar, which features Professor David Crundall from Nottingham Trent University as the keynote speaker. Other key business speakers include Andy Price from Zurich, who will speak about the insurance savings that can be made from adopting safe business driving procedures.
The Nottinghamshire Road Safety Partnership includes Nottingham City Council, Nottinghamshire County Council, Nottinghamshire Police, Nottinghamshire Fire & Rescue Service, East Midlands Ambulance Service, Highways England and Public Health.
To book places visit http://nottsdfbb.eventbrite.co.uk or to book and pay via invoice please email: neil.snow@nottinghamcity.gov.uk