Check Your Employee's Driving Licence
Tragically, an estimated 10,000 road deaths and serious injuries occur annually involving people at work.
Of that number, it is estimated that around a third of crashes involve someone who was driving for work.
This means 1,000 lives a year are lost when someone is driving for work.
THINK! is the name of the Department of Transport's campaign to promote safer driving. The campaign targets different groups of drivers - everyone from new drivers to motorcyclists and cyclists. It also tackles serious driving issues, such as drink and drug driving, the use of mobile phones and speeding.
THINK! sees three factors which are the most problematic issues facing those who drive to work: tiredness, speeding and the use of mobile phones.
Through the Driving for Better Business website, a Department of Transport initiative, employees are given ways to deal with these problematic issues and also encouraged to do employee background checks. The reason that driver licence checks are so important to the safety of the public is that often people are driving who simply shouldn't be - perhaps because of medical reasons or previous misdemeanours - and yet because no one has checked their licence, they are able to get away with it.
Employers run a serious risk if they employee drivers without conducting driver licence checking first. Should the employee be caught driving for work or driving a company vehicle without a valid licence, the employers will be seen as failing to meet their Duty of Care and must deal with the legal complications.
For the sake of your business, public safety and your conscience, don't you think it's time you checked your employees' driving licences?
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