Let‘s Talk Fleet Risk

Show notes: Could you save £56k with a Road Safety Framework? Joining us in this episode is Dave Conway, Road Safety Manager for FM Conway. https://www.drivingforbetterbusiness.com/podcast/episode/could-you-save-56k-with-a-road-safety-framework/   Useful links FM Conway Case Study https://www.drivingforbetterbusiness.com/case-studies/business-champion/fm-conway/ Health & Safety Event – April https...

Show notes: Van Safety Ratings - how safe are your vans? This month's episode of the Let's Talk Fleet Risk Podcast is all about Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (or ADAS for short). ADAS covers all the collision avoidance systems and driver assistance technology that can help prevent a collision or minimise the severity in the event that the incident can't be avoided altogether. Joining us in th...

Show notes: Safe Loading Welcome to the first podcast of 2022. The Driving for Better Business Campaign is focussing on loading issues this month, so we asked Nina Day from the HSE to join us for this episode. Nina has worked for the HSE for 21 years. She’s a chartered mechanical engineer and a dangerous goods safety advisor specialising in road and workplace transport. https://www.linkedin.com/in...

Show notes I’m joined today by fatigue expert Dr Paul Jackson of Fresh Air Training Paul is a Chartered Psychologist specialising in human performance and has assisted safety-critical organisations to implement fatigue risk management systems for over 20 years in a career that has also included positions as Research Manager at the Department for Transport responsible for looking at impairment resu...

Show notes Welcome to this edition of Let's Talk Fleet Risk - a podcast for those who manage drivers and their vehicles, and want to reduce road risk in their organisation. In this episode, Simon Turner, Campaign Manager for Driving for Better Business, is joined by Phil Hitchen, the Managing Director of Belle Vue Manchester - award-winning and quality-branded transport provider. Phil and Simon di...

Show notes My guest in this episode is David Malone who is the Transport and Travel Advisor for The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. His responsibilities include setting and implementing the strategic direction for all hospital managed transport as well as all delivery transport movements to and from site. This includes not just fleet vehicles, vans, pool cars and grey fleet but...

Show notes In this episode of Let’s Talk Fleet Risk, Simon Turner discusses the thorny issue of driver distraction with Dr Gemma Briggs from the Open University. Gemma is an applied cognitive psychologist who has been researching driver inattention for over 15 years. She has lectured and written extensively on the attentional and perceptual issues caused by phone use when driving and has worked cl...

Show notes Simon Turner is joined in this podcast by Mark Cartwright from Highways England. Mark was previously at the Freight Transport Association where he was head of vans and light commercial vehicles, and was the brains behind the van excellence programme. He now brings over 30 years of experience to Highways England as head of their Commercial Vehicle Incident Prevention Team. In this podcas...