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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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Time to Review Your Alcohol Policy
Article: Time to Review Your Alcohol Policy
Date: Dec 18, 2009
Friday October 30th saw the publication of the Road Traffic Bill 2009. Minister for Transport, Mr Noel Dempsey announced plans to lower the drink drive limit in Ireland by the end of 2009. Under the proposals, there will also be a separate lower limit for those driving for work and learner drivers
Currently only Ireland, Britain and Malta have a limit of 80mg alcohol per 100ml blood. When the new measures are brought into law, Ireland will have cut this to 50mg, with a lower, 20mg limit of 20mg for learner drivers and certain people who drive for work.
All other European countries have limits of 50mg or lower. In the wake of this announcement, the UK Road safety charity Brake has called "on the UK Government to follow the example of our Irish neighbours by lowering the drink-drive limit and stepping up enforcement of the law".
Alcohol could be a contributory factor in 21% of fatal road crashes in Ireland that happen between 6am and 12 noon. If an employee has been drinking the night before the only cure is time. One study in the UK found that 51% of drivers had unintentionally drink driven. With the 20mg/50mg levels coming into effect here, the chances of some employees being over-the-limit is very significant.
While drivers have a clear responsibility to drive both legally and safely, employers too should remember their duty-of-care reponsibilities and take reasonable, practicable steps to promote safe driving for work. Steps can include raising awareness and testing drivers.
Further information: www.drinkdriving.ie or contact us.
Some Key Drink driving Facts:
* Any alcohol impairs driving and increases the risk of collision.
* At half the current limit, drivers are twice as likely to be involved in a collision. At the current limit (0.08g/dL) drivers are six times more likely to have a collision.
* About three out of every four drivers – an
increasing majority – are in favour of the
introduction of a lower drink driving limit and
two thirds now support a zero limit for all
drivers.
* Alcohol is twice as potent when you are a tired
driver.
* Alcohol is estimated to be a contributory factor
in 1 in 3 fatal collisions.
* In 1 in 4 fatal crashes, the driver had
consumed alcohol
* 1 in 5 drivers killed on our roads, where alcohol was present, were under the legal limit when they died.
