How Vehicle Tracking Can Help With Risk Management
Assessing and dealing with risk is one of the biggest challenges facing the modern business and organisations have a responsibility to ensure the safety of their vehicles and drivers at all times. The following explains how vehicle tracking can help with this and how it relates to some of the biggest threats your staff and vehicles will face:
Duty of care – Vehicle tracking provides evidence that a company is taking its responsibility to duty of care seriously, as required in last years Corporate Manslaughter Act.
Behaviour monitoring – By monitoring the behaviour of your drivers at all times, you can quickly identify dangerous driving habits such as speeding and excessive breaking and deal with these before they cause an accident.
Working time directive - Vehicle tracking helps you to schedule your mobile workforce and ensure that they don't exceed the working hours outlined in this legislation. Vehicle tracking systems allow you to set up alerts to tell drivers when they haven't taken enough rest breaks. This will not only ensure that your business is compliant with this directive, it will also help to prevent driver accidents caused by tiredness.
Protecting lone workers and valuable cargo - Vehicle tracking can offer panic buttons which are invaluable for those who are travelling with high-value cargo or in potentially dangerous situations or locations where vehicles and drivers may be at threat.
Identifying stationary vehicles – Vehicle tracking can alert fleet managers to vehicles which have remained at a standstill for a certain time. This will help them to investigate the reasons for this.
Driver identification – By law, companies have a responsibility to identify who exactly is at the wheel of a vehicle at any given time. Vehicle tracking allows organisations to be able to provide this information quickly and easily.
Stolen vehicle recovery – Vehicle tracking can pinpoint the exact location at all times, meaning that if a vehicle is stolen, its location can be quickly traced and the authorities can be informed in order to recover the vehicle quickly and easily. This is particularly valuable to companies who are transporting expensive or high-priority shipments.
