The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and 1992 and the P.U.W.E.R 1998 legislation require all Employers to be responsible for the Health and Safety of their employees. This includes driving any sort of vehicle while at work. The legislation requires employers to conduct risk assessments and provide training as appropriate. You must also provide safe working conditions and practices. Records of these actions must be available for inspection. In matters concerning driving, Wallace Drivesafe can carry out all of these functions for your Company. The implications of this legislation are that if one of your employees is injured at work (even if it was the employees own fault), the Company must be able to demonstrate it has taken reasonable action to ensure the driver’s safe driving and has complied with the legislation. If it cannot, any fine or imprisonment of the Directors will be much more severe. It is no legal defence to say “Fred’s worked with us for 15 years and he’s never has an accident before!” For more information please call our office

We are dedicated to providing driving assessments and driver training to all kinds of companies and organisations on all types of vehicles from a saloon car to a 44 tonne truck from your premises using your vehicles in your normal operating environment.

Benefit from Wallace DriveSafe in several ways:

FINANCIAL BENEFITS
Trained drivers provide you with better MPG and drive sympathetically, reducing service and repair costs, helping maintain residual values.

PUBLIC IMAGE
Who might your driver be sharing the road with, one of your clients’ managers?. Be sure your vehicles are being driven in a safe and considerate manner.

LEGAL COMPLIANCE
Assessments, training and supervision are fundamental aspects of Health & Safety at Work legislation and PUWER (1998) regulations. Forthcoming legislation will make individuals within your organisation directly accountable for any unsafe actions of their employees. If supervision or training is found to be inadequate fines and ultimately imprisonment may result.

Training Programmes for Wallace DriveSafe

Wallace DriveSafe programmes are divided into three areas that meet most companies’ requirements. However we would be pleased to provide bespoke arrangements on request.

PRE-EMPLOYMENT ASSESSMENT

Before an offer of employment is made to an employee, whose duties will include driving; we strongly advise a driving assessment.

Wallace DriveSafe assessments establish the driving competence of the applicant and highlight any concerns regarding the ability of the candidate to drive safely. Our findings are confirmed in writing confidentially, directly to you.

Pre-Employment Assessments at your location for half-day or full day can normally be arranged at short notice. Or with approximately one weeks notice individual drivers Pre-Employment Assessments can be conducted at our Wembley centre

IN-SERVICE SAFETY ASSESSMENT AND TRAINING

This programme is intended to review the driving ability of your existing drivers and provide remedial training where necessary. We concentrate on the safe handling of the vehicle, together with the drivers’ ability to drive defensively, i.e. to recognise hazards in good time and implement plans to deal with them.

Towards the end of the assessment/training day the driver will be reviewed. Any aspects of their driving that is not to a safe standard will be identified and confirmed in a confidential report directly to you.

REFRESHER TRAINING

Designed to follow on after the either of the above, refresher training will look at all aspects of the candidates driving that caused concern.

At the end of the refresher training a further report will be submitted for your Health and Safety Records.

Driving with Wallace DriveSafe

During In-Service Safety and Training we promote Defensive Driving techniques. These encourage a systematic approach to driving that allows for other road users who may, either deliberately or accidentally, demonstrate errors and omissions in their driving.

For example:

When driving along a straight road, in the event of another driver waiting to emerge from a side road, the defensive driver should check to see that the body language of the driver waiting to emerge is such that he is aware of your presence.

If you are unsure if the driver waiting to emerge has not seen you, defensive action needs to be taken. You could consider slowing down, adjusting your position and sounding your horn with appropriate mirror checks prior.

The specific techniques involved in defensive driving are:

• Full daily vehicle checks
• Preparations for a journey
• Consideration for prevailing weather conditions i.e. visibility, temperature and road surface
• Forward observation
• Hazard awareness, static and moving
• Defensive driving plan (MSM PSL)
• Carry out driving plans
• Dealing with other road users

Before In-Service Safety assessment and Training, we ask you to highlight any areas of concern that you may have in your drivers’ normal work related driving activities.

Our instructor will select similar roads and conditions for assessment and training if it is impractical to drive on the actual roads and routes your drivers’ use.

For cost information please call our office