Safer Driving at Work

This online Safer Driving training is suitable for anyone who drives, but in particular for people who drive cars or other small vehicles for work.  This could include:

• Salespeople
• Delivery Drivers
• Tradespeople
• Utilities staff
• Carers

The legal duty of care employers owe to staff extends to all work activities, including driving for work.  But because driving is such as everyday activity for many of us, managing driving at work is often overlooked.

Health and Safety Executive guidance on managing work-related road safety can be viewed here. 

Driving for work involves risk, and therefore should be risk assessed.

Where risks are identified, reasonable steps must be taken to reduce these to an acceptable level.  For example, this could mean setting minimum standards for driver competence, vehicle roadworthiness and journey planning.  Suitable and sufficient driver training is a key element of any successful occupational road risk strategy.

Where employees travel by vehicle to and from their normal place of work, this commuting is not considered to be driving at work.  However, all other journeys – e.g., visiting customers, travelling to a different location or between sites – does count as driving for work and must be properly managed.

This expert-led Safer Driving at Work training course has been designed to help you do just that.