RVM Backs ‘Driving For Better Business’ Campaign
RVM Fleet Services specialise in accident and risk management and as such fully support the Government-backed Driving for Better Business campaign.
The Leeds-based company is filling a major management gap for fleets in the way it consolidates and uses risk data from suppliers. It is clear that fleets are generally puzzled by the myriad of risk options on the market and unclear how best to move forward.
RVM Fleet Services believes it can contribute to the Driving for Better Business campaign’s aim of reducing the frequency and cost of road traffic incidents affecting business drivers by offering a simple and comprehensively solution that covers the key risk reduction opportunities and manages the process of reducing costs. Currently fleets select their suppliers by utilising the following categories: Accident management, Driver training, workshops and assessments, Licence checking and Grey fleet monitoring. In this way, many fleets will be able to evidence a duty of care.
However, RVM poses the following questions:
Who is responsible for allocating the feedback from all these suppliers into a consolidated ‘driver safety record’?
How does the fleet decide what elements should be consolidated into the driver safety record?
How is the data collated physically?
How is it accessed and by whom?
Who analyses the data to see if any of the results are beyond acceptable tolerances?
How and when is action taken as a result of receiving data that demonstrates unacceptable risks?
How is the consolidated risk program checked to see if it is reducing cost and frequency of accidents?
It is the view of RVM Fleet Services that whilst there are many and varied single risk solutions available in the marketplace, many fleets struggle to bring the program together as a whole to demonstrate they are keeping adequate records as required under health and safety legislation.
It is clear from RVM’s research that whilst there are many and varied single risk solutions already available in the marketplace, many fleets struggle to bring the program together as a whole and few are able to monitor the impact on accident frequency and cost because the management time involved in collating the different from different types of supplier entails huge amounts of time which fleet managers rarely get.
Under RVM’s FULL CIRCLE program, these issues are solved as a matter of course as all elements are delivered as one RVM product under one RVM program and therefore the fleet manager has just one supplier to rely upon. The program also gives the fleet automatic access to the RVM fileview facility which contains driver safety records for all drivers (including grey fleet drivers). These records display all accidents and training that has taken place as well as the results of licence checks and driver assessments.
The problem of managing the results is handled by RVM on behalf of the fleet in two different ways:
- First, a system of alerts is agreed with the fleet and integrated within the RVM software. This means that whenever a reported risk exceeds pre-set tolerances, the fleet is automatically notified and/or RVM automatically instigates the remedial action that was pre-agreed at implementation
- Second, RVM appoints an experience risk manager to conduct regular management review meetings with the fleet and the main item on the agenda is to measure the impact of the program upon the frequency and cost of accidents
For more information about the Full Circle service; the driver record web portal and the free safety audit, visit www.rvmfleetservices.co.uk or call 0113 224 8888.
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