Managing Occupational Road Risk
Managing occupational road risk is now a major priority for all private and public enterprises.
HSE Guidelines, ‘Driving at Work’ state that “health and safety law applies to on the road work activities and the risks should be effectively managed within a health and safety system”.
RoSPA, summarises the position well as “the human, legal and economic consequences of failure to manage occupational road risk make it an obligation, not an option”.
Aside from complying with the legislation, managing occupational road risk:
• Minimises disruptions to normal business activities
• Reduces direct financial costs
• Avoids negative publicity
• Mitigates potential liabilities and the risk of prosecution
Estimates suggest that up to a third of all road traffic accidents involve someone driving for work at the time. These accidents account for over 20 deaths and 250 serious injuries every week.
Prevention is always preferable to a cure, and with that objective Eagle-i has developed a unique solution TERM, Telematics Enabled Risk Management.
Telematics Enabled Risk Management – TERM
TERM is the ultimate solution for monitoring driver behaviour.
A unique chipset, carrying proprietary code measures speed, acceleration, braking and cornering as regularly as 256 times a second. This data is processed and can then be compared to chosen standards, or bands of behaviour. For example in classifying driver braking, it is possible to define bands such as: light, moderate, firm, harsh and severe; and score particular drivers.
For the first time TERM allows driving style to be quantified and in due course modelled for predicted risk. Eagle-i is working with leading insurance companies to create the first set of quantifiable driving standards.
A further advantage of TERM, is its data logging function. In the case of an accident data from the seconds proceeding and following a collision can be recorded, extracted and analysed – giving a unique insight into the likely causes and liabilities.
