Royal Mail Group achieves 'Business Champion' status

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"Royal Mail Group is one of the first fleet operators in the UK to show road safety programme leadership on such a large scale." - Melvyn Hodgetts, Technical Safety Manager at Royal Mail

One of the world’s largest occupational road risk management programmes has been established by Royal Mail Group and earned the organisation ‘business champion’ status under the Government-backed ‘Driving for Better Business’ campaign, which is delivered by RoadSafe.

While, road safety has always been a part of Royal Mail Group’s duty of care policy it has been given a massive new focus over the last 18 months with more than 50,000 of the organisation’s 90,000 drivers completing risk assessments in possibly the largest programme of its type in the world.

In addition, there has been an investment of more than £10 million to-date in fitting speed limiters and in-vehicle telemetry to the fleet of almost 30,000 iconic red vans that criss-cross the UK collecting and delivering mail.

Across the Group the organisation also runs more than 2,100 light goods vehicles between 6.5 and 7.5 tonnes, 1,500 HGVs and 5,500 company cars and up to 10,000 employees drive their own cars on business trips.

Collectively across Royal Mail Group - the parent company of Royal Mail, Post Office Ltd and Parcelforce Worldwide - there are some 90,000 drivers travelling 605 million miles each year, delivering to 28 million addresses in the UK.

An estimated up to 200 road deaths and serious injuries a week result from crashes involving at work drivers, and more employees are killed and seriously injured on Britain’s roads while driving on behalf of their employer than in any other work-related activity.

The aim of the ‘Driving for Better Business’ campaign is to raise awareness of the importance of work-related road safety in the private and public sector by using ‘business champions’ to promote the benefits of managing it effectively.

Royal Mail Group is the latest and largest of almost 40 organisations to join the campaign to date and Melvyn Hodgetts, Technical Safety Manager at Royal Mail, said: “Road safety is a major challenge and is rightly a number one priority. With such a large and distinctive fleet, we have a responsibility to make sure we provide a safe environment for our people and the communities in which we operate.”

As a result of the business’s at-work driving programme, which is being championed at board level, latest data shows that crash costs have been slashed by almost £5.5 million and the incident rate has dropped by more than a quarter.

The Group’s multi-faceted safe driving strategy embraces drivers, vehicles and journeys as well as the company’s culture and the wider community.

As well as road safety ownership at board level, Operational Area Safety Managers have been appointed this year on to each Area Leadership Team to drive safety related initiatives and to ensure best practise is shared across the organisation.

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Bit unfortunate that it goes tits up when there's a strike on. Scab drivers and RTA fatalities .Still needs must

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"The Group’s multi-faceted safe driving strategy embraces drivers, vehicles and journeys as well as the company’s culture and the wider community." Maybe, but why then do you never see an undented Royal Mail van over a couple of months old ?