Online Driver Training With SharpDrive As Part of Health & Safety Modules

When people first come to SharpDrive they have a fleet of vehicles in the organisaton to which they know they have a duty of care to reduce injury in the workplace for those drivers, and they are one of two groups. The first group have all their ducks in a row. They’ve done their analysis internally they’ve done their Health & Safety analysis; they have a safe driving policy and they are looking for an online safe drive solution to make up part of their policy.

The second group haven’t done all the research. They’re still looking at all the different aspects of things to consider so they’re looking for a bit of advice. The first thing SharpDrive suggest is to make sure you’re seeking your own independent Heatth & Safety advice. What they are seeing in the marketplace is seeing what organisations with fleets do to mitigate the risks. Those things include a number of aspects over and above just driver training.

So, the first thing is the vehicle itself and you should select vehicles that are safe. Every vehicle has a different safety rating,  and typically ANCAP perform a safety rating and they can be a great place to start. SharpDrive’s organisation will only allow vehicle with a certain safety rating and above as part of the fleet.

The second thing is vehicle servicing and maintenance. You may want to include spot checks to those vehicles. The third thing you may want to consider is GPS. GPS tracking in your vehicles includes a number of things. It allows you to know the location of your drivers, and GPS tracking data can also give you behavioural information, including when people are speeding, when they are braking or accerating harshly, which will not only have an effect on your company’s Health & Safety but on your fuel economy as well.

The next thing is driver training, which is where SharpDrive comes in with skill-set driver training, and behavioural driver risk which necessitates training. GPS information exposes drivers driving too many hours and receiving infringment notices. Organisations therefore start with online driver training across the board as a baseline because it is low cost, it’s easy to implement, and fast to scale across the whole team. Drivers can do the training before they even get the car keys. It’s all tracked with an audit tracking online when everyone has passed their course.

SharpDrive is an engaging online driver training system that will help improve your people’s knowledge of and attitude to driving. The short, interactive programme is a proactive way you can help keep your business and your drivers safe, so for more information please go to http://www.sharpdrive.co .