Gaps in Driving for Work documentation where there is a legal requirement for fleets to have written policies in place are being highlighted by a new enhancement from FleetCheck.
Where no document is registered by a user on the company’s fleet management software, it provides a prompt to visit the newly launched Driving for Better Business (DfBB) Driving for Work Policy Builder in order to create a solution.
Launched in May, the Policy Builder is designed to help fleets create a risk management policy from a template and then check that it meets legal and compliance requirements. Users who adopt it are then reminded by the FleetCheck software to review the policy annually and notified about any important updates from DfBB that may need to be included.
Peter Golding, managing director at FleetCheck, said: “Good risk management is at the heart of fleet management and of course, a legal requirement when it comes to fleet safety.
“What we have done here is make it a more proactive part of our fleet software, helping to ensure that an appropriate risk management policy covering legal Driving for Work requirements has been created by everyone across our client base. The new DfBB Policy Builder can help our customers hugely in this respect. It is an excellent online resource that makes creating high quality documentation very easy.
“We’re very keen on not just providing software tools to our clients but enabling them to access a whole infrastructure of support gathered from across the industry that builds fleet management best practice.”
Driving for Better Business is a government-backed National Highways programme to help employers in both the private and public sectors reduce work-related road risk, control associated costs and improve compliance with current legislation and guidance.
Golding added: “We have a longstanding relationship with DfBB and are pleased to be able to integrate their latest risk management initiative into our software in this manner. It’s all about trying to make fleet operations as safe as possible.”
