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Mar

19

Risk Management – Should you make that call?

By Fleet Risk Consultants

Have you ever considered whether to make that call?  As a Risk Management professional I do, regularly.

Mobile Telephones are a great piece of equipment, they allow us to communicate with each other whenever and wherever we want to, but as most men will admit, and most women won’t, you cannot …

Mar

18

Corporate Manslaughter Legislation – Investigating Collisions

By Fleet Risk Consultants

The Corporate Manslaughter Legislation requires business owners to required to manage the risks their employees are exposed to.  Part of these requirements is the need to investigate all at-work accidents, this will include at-work road accidents.

These are a key factor in the way you manage and develop your risk strategy.  …

Mar

17

Naked Streets – Why they could be a good idea

By Fleet Risk Consultants

I find myself in the unusual position of agreeing with the ideas of the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, in his desire to reduce the casualties in London by reducing the clutter on the roads and pavements.  This concept is sometimes called ‘Naked streets or Naked roads’.

The concept of blurring …

Mar

16

Corporate Manslaughter and Risk Management – Spreading the word

By Fleet Risk Consultants

With studies showing that 75% of businesses have yet to make any attempt at Road Risk Management and thus leaving themselves open to prosecution under Corporate Manslaughter Legislation we at Fleet Risk Consultants are attending a number of events and exhibitions to educate business owners about the risks they are …

Mar

13

How you deal with illness could land you in court

By Fleet Risk Consultants

I have spent the last few days dealing with a cough and cold, not man flu I hasten to add, just an ordinary cold.  I my personal case, any cold I get always results in a rather nasty cough.  I have been taking mainly paracetamol and codeine, because most of …

Mar

12

What Fleet Risk Consultants actually do

By Fleet Risk Consultants

I have been writing here for the past six months and I rarely go into detail about the types of things that Fleet Risk Consultants actually does for it’s clients.

I have given you all plenty of hints and tips and some insights into how we help our clients, but not …

Mar

11

Clearing the uncertainty about Tail-lifts

By Fleet Risk Consultants

I was at the North East Regional Meeting of ACFO yesterday and the topic of Tail-lift vehicles was discussed and clarification was sought.  Fortunately I was able to confirm the following advice.

If you are using a vehicle with a tail-lift as part of your business you need to be aware …

Mar

10

Why the Government should amend RIDDOR

By Fleet Risk Consultants

The Health and Safety Executive bases its accident statistics on a a piece of legislation called ‘The Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995′(RIDDOR).  Using the information provided under this regulation they can prepare very accurate statistics for injuries and fatal accidents in industry in the United Kingdom.

Overall …

Mar

9

The Government is planning to reduce road deaths

By Fleet Risk Consultants

I have to say, what took them so long?  Here at Fleet Risk Consultants we have been taking action to achieve that for the past three years in conjunction with our clients.

The government have this ridiculous idea that a blanket speed reduction will reduce road deaths, they seem to not …

Mar

6

Uninsured Loss Recovery for Fleets

By Fleet Risk Consultants

I have a fleet client with about a hundred vehicles but they’re always getting into bumps, usually quite minor but every time they have to stump up for a £500.00 excess and some hire – seemingly about twice a month and that’s just not the non-fault claims.

Now with the benefit …