How to Make Safety Everyones Top Priority

Safety is one of the important things for everyone everywhere in the world. One of the risky jobs is the driver's job not matter it is in business or personal. Every business has a lot of employees and safety of them is the prime responsibility of the organizations. Cabs/taxis, trucks, fleets, buses, cargo are some business where safety is very important for employees and especially for drivers.

Real-time data on your fleet operations and GPS tracking systems installed in your vehicles will arm you with the necessary insights to monitor, enforce and improve safety across the business. But safety isn't just a matter of wielding the technology as a disciplinary tool or ticking a box and hoping for the best. Creating a safe and productive company culture relies on the certainty that everyone in the business is making the safest choice at every turn until it becomes an ingrained habit.

Here are four steps to help you get started in creating a safety-first company:

1. Safety is Everyone's Concern

It is very vital that everyone in the business understands what safe behavior is, what it means for them and how their choices impact others. This isn't just best practice, but a legal requirement under Chain of Responsibility (CoR) legislation. Changes to the CoR mean everyone in the supply chain shares equal responsibility for safety and is liable for breaches of the Heavy Vehicle National Law, including fatigue management, speeding, mass, and maintenance.

Here's what that means for different people in your business:

Managers: It's your job to actively identify risks in the business and act to mitigate them, rather than reacting once an incident occurs. You need a clear picture of operations and knowledge of your business inside out to spot dangerous trends.

Drivers: They need to know it's okay to choose safety first no matter the deadline or business pressures. Research shows more than one in eight drivers feel unable to refuse an unsafe schedule, so they need reassurance they won't be penalized for prioritizing safety.

Other Employees: Any staff member with influence can face penalties if they contribute to unsafe behavior. For example, a dispatcher will be liable for asking for a delivery in an unreasonable time frame, causing the driver to skip a rest break and breach sign-posted speed limits.

2. Provide Required Training

The training program is all about driving a safer culture for the whole organization. We care for a lot of clients across the country, and we're concerned about their safety as well as our drivers.

3. Create Transparent Safety Policy

A transparent workplace health & safety policy will cement everyone's CoR obligations and guarantee there is no confusion about business expectations.

If you are installing a fleet management solution that monitors what is going on the road, it is also very important to outline clear guidelines for its use. The technology alone won't be effective if people don't understand how or why it's used. Be specific about when drivers are authorized to use vehicles out-of-hours, as well as when the vehicles will be tracked and what data you're capturing. This helps to alleviate common driver apprehensions about GPS acting as 'Big Brother' to keep an eye on them at all times.

Making transparent and clear safety will decrease the accidental rates, mishaps, and reduce serious consequences and that will lead to build an efficient and productive environment for an organization. For this, every person in business needs to take right action and do some work for it.

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