1. Safe Driving
The organisation should make it clear that it expects its employees to drive safely at all times for their own benefit and that of others.
2. Keeping Within the Speed Limits
In that context, it should make it clear that it expects all its employees to never drive faster than road conditions safely allow.
3. Leading by Example
As in other areas of company policy, all senior managers should lead by personal example, both in the way they drive themselves and in encouraging collegues to drive safely.
4. Planning Safe Journeys
The organisation should also make it clear that all journeys must be planned with safety in mind, allowing sufficient to enable employees to travel at safe speeds and to comply with speed limits-taking account of reasonable foreseeable weather and road traffic conditions and allowing suffient time for rest breaks to avoid fatigue.
5. Avoiding Incentives to Speed
The organisation should avoid having in place work targets, systems of work or performance related methods of remuneration which may create pressures which lead its employees to use speed inappropriately and travel at speeds which are likely to be unsafe or in excess of set speed limits.
6. Vehicle Allocation
It should ensure that the performance characteristics of its vehicles are matched to the competence level of drivers to whom they are allocated.
7. Monitoring Compliance
The organisation should consider and put in place appropriate monitoring arrangements to assess the extent of compliance by its employees with its policy on speed. This should include options such as feedback from employees themselves; monitoring licenses for points and recording all fixed penalty tickets issued to company car drivers.
8. Investing Accidents
Wherever practicable 'at work' vehicle accidents should be investigated by the organisation to determine whether inappropriate use of speed was a contributory factor.
9. Liasing with Police Forces and Road Safety Bodies
The organisation should seek to liase with police forces and other road safety bodies as appropriate, to establish if and how co-operation can be achieved in pursuit of its policy on vehicle speed.
10. Raising Awareness
The organisation should ensure that its policy on safe use of speed is clearly communicated to all employees and is backed by appropriate publicity. Also that awareness of the policy and issues involved is maintained through regular communications and feed-back on high standards of compliance as well as on cases where employees have failed to comply.
'Good Driving is Good Business'