Business drivers


Do you have employees who drive as part of their job?
Business driving in Essex is supported by the Safer Essex Roads Partnership (SERP), which provides training, workshops and risk management.
Options include driver assessments, theory-based seminars, and bespoke training for cars, vans, and HGVs. Key focus areas include legal compliance, reducing road risks, and specialized training for urban areas.
Whether a sales team, regional managers, service engineers, delivery drivers or even staff using their own cars for business journeys, the Business Driving in Essex programme aims to help employers reduce work-related road risk.
- Click here to download our Business Driving in Essex brochure [PDF]
- Click here to find out more about our range of courses for local businesses that can help improve safety of employees and save your business money
Business Driving in Essex offers a bespoke theory presentation and driver assessments and provides expert guidance for safer business driving in the future. The course caters to a variety of vehicles, including grey fleet, vans, lorries, minibuses.
For more information, or an informal chat to establish how the team can work with your business or organisation to reduce the number of ‘at work’ drivers involved in road collisions, email: driverintervention@essex.gov.uk
Driving for Better Business
Driving for Better Business is a National Highways programme to help employers in both the private and public sectors reduce work-related road risk, control the associated costs and improve compliance with current legislation and guidance.
It is free to access and contains useful online tools and resources, including its Driving for Work Policy Builder, to help you:
- evaluate practices,
- strengthen culture,
- enhance performance and demonstrate leadership in the management of work-related road risk.
What can DfBB offer you? 👇
Gives employers access to a professionally written and comprehensive driving for work policy template that ensures they cover all the required elements for a typical car and van fleet.
Calculates your company’s collision rate, both by vehicle, and by distance travelled. Users can then see how this compares to our ‘good practice’ benchmark.
Checklist that includes all the mandatory requirements of managing driver safety, as well as showing what good practice looks like.
A wide range of well-known UK companies across many sectors have achieved a significant reduction in the number of collisions and offences. On top of this they’ve reduced their fleet insurance, their maintenance costs, their fuel costs and seen many other improvements.
Driver safety information covering over 35 separate issues including phone distraction, fatigue, speeding, vehicle checks, winter driving and many more.
Each month, DfBB publishes a new set of resources that focus on a key area of driver safety. Each month’s ‘pack’ includes legal updates for managers, and resources to share with drivers.
Developed with industry experts to assist employers investigate vehicle related incidents. This, in turn, helps employers share learnings and put in place measures to reduce future occurrences.
Explains the importance of ensuring not just vehicle roadworthiness but also the fitness of drivers. Driver health, mental state, and physical fitness significantly impact driving safety.
