A new interactive Driving for Work Policy Builder has been launched by the Driving for Better Business programme.
The tool is designed to help companies to address their legal responsibilities regarding their fleets, with a recent survey showing more than a quarter of firms with driving employees have no policy, and a similar number have not reviewed their existing policy for at least three years.
The free-to-use tool is designed to provide companies with a template they can use to create a legally-compliant document, adaptable for their own needs and shareable with all employees.
Driving for Better Business, a programme run by National Highways, said it had spotted a rising trend in online searches where users were looking for guidance on safe operation of employees out on the road. It added that proof of a driving for work policy that meets legal and compliance standards was also increasingly becoming a requirement when tendering for new work.
Driving for Better Business campaign manager Simon Turner said: “Our Driving for Work Policy Builder has the potential to deliver a huge positive impact on how employers think about driver safety – especially those, and there are many, that currently have no driver policy at all.
“It will help employers create, review, and update their own policy and it will cover all the key relevant risks for managing policies, drivers, vehicles and journeys.
“With a template and checklist, it covers all the key risks of most fleets, and can be adapted to individual companies.”
