Most fleet and safety leaders can already tell you which of their drivers are racking up points, which ones have had a near miss, or which licences are due for a check. The hard part is turning that knowledge into action before it becomes a claim, a prosecution, or worse.
Risk management technology provider, SambaSafety, has launched a guide, Knowing Isn’t Fixing – Proactive Intervention Tactics for Addressing Driver Risk, which looks at why UK fleets that stop at identifying risk are still exposed, and provides some pointers as to what closing that gap actually looks like in practice.
Why This Matters
UK legislation makes clear that employers can be held accountable for knowing about risk and failing to act. The guide points to a real case where a company was fined £2.3 million after ignoring repeated warnings about one driver: a sharp reminder that the records you keep for managing risk can also be used to evidence that it has been left unaddressed.
Nicola Wright, Business Development Manager at SambaSafety said, “I meet a lot of fleets that have telematics fitted in their vehicles, and run all the right compliance checks on their drivers, but when I ask how the information is being used to improve safety, the answer isn’t always clear. The desire to improve safety is genuine. The data being collected is right. The gap is in turning it into outcomes”.
What’s Inside
Download the guide to find:
- A framework for benchmarking your own driver risk assessment maturity
- A breakdown of the UK legal framework fleet managers need to understand
- A practical intervention plan for turning driver data into targeted training and documented action
- Safety and cost improvements that can be achieved when targeted training is paired with continuous monitoring
Get the Full Picture
If your fleet has the data but has not yet formed an action plan, this guide shows where the gaps typically are, and how other UK fleets are closing them.
