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Road Safety
Presented
by:
Insert Presenter’s Name
THE ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF ACCIDENTS
Young Drivers at Work
WELCOME!
Find the seat with your name
card by it and get comfortable
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Introduction
 This workshop was developed by RoSPA
after conducting research about Young
Drivers at Work
 2 ½ to 3 hours long with a 15 minute
refreshment break in the middle
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Introduction
 We’re not here to lecture or tell anyone
they’re wrong
 We just want to get you thinking about
the experience you already have and how
it’s applied to keep you safe in different
situations
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Expectations
From Us
 Confidentiality
From You
 Active participation
Unless we feel you or
 Active listening
another person are in
 Respect each other’s
danger
expertise
 Timekeeping
 Honest responses
 Allow everyone to speak
 Complete evaluation
 Feedback and evaluation
forms
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Observation
 Is there anything out of the ordinary in the
room?
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Observation
 The more observations we make, the better idea we
have of what is going on.
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Awareness Test
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Observation
DISTRACTED ATTENTION
• Cognitive workload
• Mobile phone conversations
• ‘Not seeing’
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Thought Shower
 Shout out your answers
 Say what you personally think
 There are no right or wrong answers
Q. A ‘safe’ driver is somebody who...?
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Small Group Discussion
 We spoke to young drivers
 We heard their views on Driving for Work
Q. Do you share their views?
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Young Driver Quotes
 “Because of driving in an area that we’re not
really familiar with, it’s a lot harder. I drive in
London when I’m used to driving in Stafford.
It’s a lot different, getting in the correct lane
and stuff, it’s a lot different driving in the
city.”
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Young Driver Quotes
 “The test; they try to take you round as
many different places as they can and try to
show you all these different situations but
because the test is only there at that time, it
could be when there’s no traffic around, it’s
completely different to when you’re out there
driving in real life.”
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Young Driver Quotes

“It’s all chance, it’s all pot-chance for
driving, whether you’ve got the knowledge
to drive good or not, what personality you
are and other road users as well. There’s
loads of different things that cause
accidents, it’s not just drivers it could be
anything.”
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Whole group feedback
 How have your personal experiences
informed your views?
 How has your workplace informed your
views?
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Pop Quiz - Questions
1. Road traffic accidents whilst at work are the
largest cause of occupational fatality in the
UK.
True or False?
2. Wearing a seat belt can reduce your risk of
death by how much?
A) 25%
B) 45%
C) 65%
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Pop Quiz
3. At-work van and company car drivers are
more likely to cause an accident than to
become involved as a blameless party.
True or False?
4. Most road traffic accidents occur on
motorways?
True or False?
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Pop Quiz
5. The greatest proportion of failed roadside
breathtests occur in which of these age
groups?
a) 17 - 19
b) 20 - 24
c) 25 - 29
d) 30 - 39
e) 40 - 49
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Pop Quiz
6. For all types of road and for all accidents,
‘failure to look properly’, is the most
frequently reported contributory factor.
True or False?
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Pop Quiz
7. ‘Driver behaviour or inexperience’,
‘injudicious actions’ (eg. disobeying road
signs), and ‘road environment’, are more
likely to be contributory factors for
accidents in which age group?
a) 17 – 24 yrs
b) 25 – 69
c) 70 +
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Pop Quiz
8. More than half of company car driver fatal accidents
involve driving at excessive speed?
True or False?
9. The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate
Homicide Act (2007) covers fatal employee accidents
on the road as well as in the workplace.
True or False?
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Pop Quiz
10. It is estimated that just under one-quarter of
all road traffic incidents involve someone
who was at work at the time.
True or False?
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Pop Quiz: Summary
 There are differences between at-work
driving in the ‘real world’ and what you
learnt in your driving lessons
 But what you learnt in your driving
lessons has given you some relevant
experience
 Driving is a continuous learning process
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Accidents at work
 In small groups
 Have a look at the accident investigation
scenario -
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Accidents at work
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Immediate factors
• Inappropriate speed
• Drugs
• Inattention
• Adverse weather
• Falling asleep
• Vehicle defects
• Travelling too close
• Highway conditions
• Excessive alcohol
• Driver distractions
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Underlying factors
• Internal pressure
• Poor routeing
• Inadequate sleep
• Vehicle maintenance
• Congestion/stress
• Driver attitude
• Poor journey planning
• Inadequate experience
• Time management
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How do employers manage these risks
Insert MORR policy on
eg – Jorney Planning or Mobile phones
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How do employers manage these risks
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Refreshment break
Back in 15
minutes!
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The rest of the workshop…
Specific skills commonly used when
Driving for Work:
 Journey Planning
 Different Vehicles
 Vehicle Checks
 Scenarios
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Journey Planning Buzz Groups
Quickly talk to the person next to you about:
 How you got here today?
 What planning did you do for it?
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Journey Planning Buzz Groups
Quickly talk to the person next to you about:
 A journey you made that went wrong
 Why did it go wrong?
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Journey Planning
Here is an journey which you may drive for
work…
 It is 8am and you are in Birmingham. You have been
asked to attend a meeting in Bristol at 10.00am.
 You are expecting the meeting to last 2 hours, but you
also have an appointment back in Birmingham at 2pm.
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Journey Planning Route Plans
 How did you plan your route?
 How would your plan change with
inclement weather?
 What stops us from following these plans
in reality?
 How can we overcome those barriers?
 What priority do we give to driving?
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The Vehicle
With the person sat next to you:
 Talk about your positive or negative
experiences with driving a new vehicle
 Be prepared to share someone else's
experience with the group
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The Vehicle
 So what feedback do we get when driving
a new vehicle or using some technology –
like a SatNav
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The Vehicle
“When Sat Nav’s go Wrong”

One-quarter of under 25year olds admit to
deliberately racing their sat navs.

26 year old take-away driver “turned right”
onto a railway line at a level crossing. Got
stuck on cattle grid across the tracks.
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How do employers manage these risks
 Insert any MORR policy on SAT NAVS
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Managing Road Risk
 Fast forward a few years… and you’re
now a manager of a company. You know
what happens from experience when
people first start driving for work.
 Part of your job is to manage the risk to
the staff who drive for work.
 What would you do?
 What would you include in your policy?
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Employer topic
 Something particular to your company
which they wanted us to talk about is
topic.
 Tell us about it?
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Topic title
Topic information
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Topic title
Employer policies on the topic
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Some Scenarios
“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy
making other plans.”
John Lennon, “Beautiful Boy”.
What would you do if…
 You were sharing a lift with a younger
colleague going down a motorway and
they were pushing 100mph
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Some Scenarios
What would you do if…
 On an evening, you went bowling for a
friends birthday and had several drinks. It
is the morning after and you are due to
drive to a meeting.
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Some Scenarios
What would you do if…
 Your alarm clock didn’t go off in the
morning and you are late for work
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Some Scenarios
What would you do if…
 You arrive home and suddenly realise
you do not remember all of the journey.
Were those lights on green?
 Hope they were...
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Safer Driving
Again, Q. What makes a safe driver?
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Summary
 There are differences between Learning to Drive and
Driving for Work
 We need to consider what makes us drive in the way
we do
 Sometimes we assume that there is nothing we can
do about our safety when this isn’t true
 Your employer has a legal duty of care when you are
driving for work and is a source of support
 We all make mistakes and bad things do happen
 Driving is about lifelong learning and development
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Summary
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The Promise
 Write a message from your future self about
what you have done to improve your safety
as a driver
“I have.....”
 We will mail this to you in 3 weeks time
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Thank you