Brake Professional Bulletin - Fleet Safety Awards 2018

The 2018 Fleet Safety Awards Tickets are selling fast for our 2018 Fleet Safety Awards. The awards ceremony sponsored by Trimble Field Service Management (FSM) recognises the achievements of those working to help reduce the number of road crashes involving at-work drivers. The winners are announced at a celebratory gala dinner which is taking place on Thursday 11th October at the Birmingham Hilton Metropole. The evening provides a fantastic networking opportunity for attendees and includes a drinks reception, three course dinner with wine, and entertainment including a casino, an auction and disco. Please visit our website to book your place now. There are remaining sponsorship opportunities available. If you would like to find out more, please email corporate@brake.org.uk. Telematics - what next?' webinar - sponsored by Verizon Connect Telematics is an ever-growing market. With so much technology on offer, where should you look to invest your budget and time, and how can you make sure you’re getting the most out of the technology. This webinar will explore how you can ensure staff understand and engage positively with telematics, the importance of getting useful data from your telematics, and how to respond to telematics data effectively. Who should attend? Representatives of any organisation that employs at-work drivers, including fleet managers,health and safety managers, fleet suppliers, insurers, fleet risk management, driver training providers. This webinar is taking place on Wednesday 22 August, online, 2pm-3.30pm BST. The event is kindly sponsored by Verizon Connect and is free to attend. To register, complete our short online form. 'Connected and autonomous vehicles' webinar - available on YouTube The vehicle fleet is changing at an unprecedented rate. Our last webinar, that took place on Wednesday 11 July 2018,  left attendees with a good understanding of the latest in connected and autonomous vehicle technology.  The speakers included: Tom Voege, policy analyst, International Transport Forum David Ward, senior technical manager at HORIBA MIRA Jonathan Flower, PhD researcher, Centre for Transport and Society, University of the West of England Iwan Parry, principal consultant, TRL If you were unable to attend, follow this link to watch it on YouTube.

Positive mental attitudes - monitoring driver behaviour The Brake Professional website offers a wide range of resources for members to access free of charge. These resources include event reports, guidance documents and posters for at-work drivers. The latest report from Brake, kindly sponsored by Teletrac Navman, will take you through useful procedural steps, at recruitment stage, and when assessing and monitoring drivers, that employers can take to help identify attitudes and state of mind, and will also provide useful tips on developing an organisational culture that values and prioritises people. If you are a member, you can access it here. Not a member of Brake Professional? Please follow this link to visit Brake's shop. Alternatively, you can join for as little as £50 + VAT. Find out more here.  Pledge - take part in our training The Brake Pledge is a flexible driver training resource for companies that want to engage their drivers with positive behavioural change. It covers six key areas of occupational road risk, what employers should be doing to manage their risk, and how to successfully educate and engage drivers with road safety messages. The next UK training course is taking place on 6 September in Birmingham. To find more about course dates and locations, please visit our website. Brake's Pledge training would not be possible without the funding kindly provided by Arval. Event: Brake’s Virtual Run is BACK for summer 2018! This year we are calling for participants to help us collectively run or walk 1753 km to help raise vital funds in memory of the 1753 people killed on roads in Britain every year. This is your opportunity to be a part of an amazing experience and help raise money to enable Brake to support people bereaved in road crashes and campaign for safer roads. It costs just £5 to register, which includes a fundraising pack, sponsor forms and your Virtual Run 2018 t-shirt. Register here: Click here for more information and to register.