RoSPA has launched an improved version of an award-winning psychometric risk assessment tool to bring new benefits to organisations wishing to gauge the strengths and weaknesses of their employees’ driving.
It is important to remember that work-related road safety is not just an issue for firms that employ professional drivers, but also for those that have any staff members who drive as part of their job,
Driver Profiler 2 is an online software package that assesses the risks associated with an employee’s use of the road, enabling informed decisions to be taken about training that might be required.
Each assessment, which takes less than 30 minutes, measures driving-related attitudes and behaviour without the need to leave the workplace. An individual risk rating is then generated.
An improved reporting system gives managers access to more detailed results about the level of risk posed by individual employees on the road. The information can then be used in decisions about further training, which might, for example, involve classroom theory sessions or in-car training.
Rick Wood, Training and Quality Assurance Manager in RoSPA’s Driver and Fleet Solutions team, said "Thousands of people have taken a Driver Profiler assessment since the software was first launched, and we hope the new version will further benefit a wide range of organisations with employees who use the road for work. It is important to remember that work-related road safety is not just an issue for firms that employ professional drivers, but also for those that have any staff members who drive as part of their job, perhaps between sites, to meetings or as sales reps."
Then why cannot these drivers put into practice what they have learnt? That goes for white van drives too!
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