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Driving For Work
8X
Work-related road accidents are much more expensive than many employers realise. The estimated full cost can be €8 to €36 for every euro claimed on insurance.
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Driving For Work
95%
95% of all accidents are attributable to human error alone
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Driving For Work
1/3
It is estimated that between 25% and 33% of road traffic collisions involve somebody who was using the road for work purposes.
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Driving For Work
31%
of top Irish companies surveyed in 'Driver Wellbeing' advised they 'never' provide driver training to employees
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Driving For Work
72%
of top Irish companies surveyed in 'Driver Wellbeing' expressed an interest in using CBT to either train or proritise training of their drivers
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Work-Related Transport Safety
63%
According to the HSA, almost two-thirds of work-related fatalities in Ireland in 2008 involved workplace transport,
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Driving For Work
61%
of at-work drivers also admit to regularly leaving less than a two-second gap, compared to 40% of drivers who don’t drive for work
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Driving For Work
74%
of at-work drivers admit to travelling at least 10mph (16kph) faster on motorways, compared to 47% of drivers who don’t drive for work
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Driving for Work
45%
In a 2008 survey of 1,506 people by Nationwide Mutual Insurance in the USA, 81% of drivers acknowledged that they talk on phones while driving. 98% considered themselves safe drivers and 45% said they had been hit or nearly hit by a driver talking on a phone!
Source: New York Times July 19, 2009
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DriverFocus signs European Road Safety Charter
DriverFocus signs European Road Safety Charter and commits to help increase work-related road safety in the EU
DriverFocus makes tangible commitment to help increase work-related road safety in EU.
The European Road Safety Charter is an appeal to all civil society organisations to participate in the ambitious yet possible to halve the number of traffic deaths in the European Union between 2001 and 2010.
In 2007, 43,000 people died in road traffic accidents in the European Union - this is equivalent to over 300 fatal air crashes involving medium-range aircraft. Some 1.7 million people were injured, some of them severely. If you think you will not be involved in a collision, then think again! According to EU statistics, one out of three people will be injured in a traffic accident at some point in their lives. Up to the age of 55, traffic collisions are the most common causes of hospitalisation. Clearly, the dangers of road traffic are all-pervasive and concern everyone. From a national point of view, the economic damages generated by traffic accidents were estimated at €200 billion, corresponding to approximately 2% of the European Union’s Gross National Product (GNP).
Is this the price we must pay for mobility? The European Commission says NO! It is ambitious yet possible to halve the number of traffic deaths in the European Union between 2001 and 2010.
Meeting this objective is a joint challenge. It can only be met if the European Union, its Member States, civil society organisations and of course, all citizens get fully involved in their respective spheres of responsibility.
As an advocate of best-practice work-related road safety practices, DriverFocus is a willing signatory of the European Road Safety Charter. Beyond its day-to-day activities, DriverFocus will commit the necessary resources over the next three years to:
- Provide a free, online driver self-assessment to 1,000 drivers
- Actively encourage at least 50 employers to join Brake’s Fleet Safety Forum
- Assist the RSA and HSA in distributing relevant guidance to 500 employers
Further information on signing up to the European Road Safety Charter can be found at: http://www.erscharter.eu/
