Brake Professional Bulletin - Get Involved

The Pledge driver training days: December sessions   The Pledge provides training and tools to help employers engage any employee who drives with these key safety messages. Hundreds of companies have attended our highly rated Pledge training course to learn ways how to successfully incorporate road safety within they company culture. It focuses on speed, distraction, seat belt use, mobile phones, driver health and eyesight and, of course drink and drug-driving. Our next UK training days are taking place on 6 December in Swindon and on 11 December in Manchester. Places are free for Brake Professional members or £90+ VAT for non-members. We are also running a special offer this week to celebrate the end of Road Safety Week and everyone’s incredible efforts raising awareness on the safety of those on two wheels. To say thank you we’d like to offer a FREE place on our Brake Pledge training December workshops to anyone who fills out our Road Safety Week feedback survey here. *limited places on each workshop. To find more about the course content, please visit our website.  Identifying and addressing driver fatigue webinar - only two weeks to go Fatigue is a major contributory factor in crashes in the UK, with too little sleep radically affecting driver attention, awareness, reaction time and ability to control the vehicle. It is particularly dangerous because it can affect anyone, regardless of how experienced a driver they are. At-work drivers can be particularly at risk, especially if they spend long hours driving, drive at night, or have irregular sleep schedules. 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, kindly sponsored by Allianz, will take place at 2PM (GMT) on 13 December and is free to attend. To register, complete our online form. Watch our past webinars here. Fleet Safety Awards 2018 - spotlight winners Brake recognised organisations from around the world for their contribution to improving the safety of at-work drivers, at its annual Fleet Safety Awards in Birmingham on Thursday 11th October. Over 400 guests from the fleet industry attended the prestigious awards ceremony sponsored by Trimble.  You can see a full list of this year’s winners here and to register your interest in next year’s awards taking place on Thursday 19th September 2019, click here.

Here is what Mark Bromhall, Road Safety Manager, Royal Mail Group, winner of Road Risk Manager Award sponsored by Licence Bureau, had to say: "Brake are a fantastic organisation and I’m very proud to receive this award from them, especially when looking at the names of people who have won it before me.  This recognition reflects the efforts of many people within Royal Mail Group, who work hard to reduce the level of Road Traffic Collisions; however driving for work remains one of the most risky activities that we ask our people to perform, and we will use this success as inspiration to always keep improving." Increase Safety and Efficiency with the RH600 Telematics Camera   The innovative Trakm8 RH600 4G telematics camera provides fleet managers with the insights they need to improve safety and reduce costs. It is proven to reduce at-fault insurance claims and help drivers to adopt a safer, smoother driving style. This leading-edge device can be fitted with either a single or a dual camera head, meaning that it can monitor the driver as well as the road ahead. Fleet managers can log in and stream live footage from any camera, at any time, enabling spot checks to prevent driver distraction such as mobile phone use. The RH600 also features a full suite of telematics applications, including driver behaviour monitoring and scoring. Drivers receive feedback from the device, in real time, to help them eliminate bad habits such as heavy acceleration, harsh braking, and sharp cornering. Fleet managers can monitor driver scores, enabling early intervention if any issues emerge.