Safety Curriculum Saves Millions of Pounds and Reduces Accidents
A UK energy supplier saves over £2million and cut down on road accidents by 30 % with the help of a road safety programme, which has also been referred by the IOSH - Institution of Occupational Safety and Health and referred to others to follow in the path of that company.
In a recent estimation, it was found that over 8,000 people are injured severely and about 740 killed each year on roads at a national level. British Gas is keen on cutting down on the number of accidents involving their workers. They have a fleet of 1,950 private cars, 1,800 company cars and 10,200 vans.
The company, after taking several safety measures and implementing programmes that included maintenance and driving skill monitoring and training, saved over £2million in its own fleet repair costs. The incident rate of the company has come down from an industry average of 0.46 to 0.283. British Gas earlier spent around £6.7million on third party expenses and own damages and about £14 million on fuel per year.
Several measures were advised in a five-year plan for the incident statistics and overall driving safety culture of British Gas such as, incident analysis, fuel monitoring and vehicle safety features like speed limiters cheering safer driving as well as saving fuel. For employees with their own cars, vehicle status, insurance verifications and licence checks were done often and additional awareness was shown toward younger drivers. Other ideas included pre-employment driver risk evaluations and electronic driver licence checks.
The IOSH e-learning course is a unique web-based training programme leading to the award of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health. The course offers all the advice and information needed for managers to successfully manage appropriate policies and procedures and improve upon management skills to help find the best ways to lead and promote health and safety, and therefore meet its legal obligations.