Improving fleet safety can be accomplished through a variety of safety efforts:
- Safety & Driver Training
- Ride Alongs ( Fleet Driver Training )
- Mandated Policies
- Vehicle Improvements
But, how much have you spent on these activities to improve your fleet safety, only to have this:
End up looking like this?
To avoid your fleet ending up in this situation, you need to make sure your drivers apply lessons learned while on the road – a solution DriveCam ensures through a Fleet Tracking Program that includes continuous monitoring and real-time feedback, engages drivers in self-correction, and captures data and exception-based video.
DriveCam’s comprehensive fleet safety program identifies, prioritizes and corrects the causes of poor driving before they lead to a collision. And ultimately improves fleet safety by transforming a fleet’s safety culture, preventing collisions and saving lives.
It’s important to understand that behavioral safety programs are advantageous because they are easy to implement, easy to teach and can be implemented in the setting where the problem occurs. Behavioral safety programs have been successfully used to increase safety-related work behaviors in a variety of organizational settings. In a review of 53 occupational safety and health studies covering various safety approaches, it was found that behavioral safety approaches had the highest average reduction in injury rate (59.6 percent).
However, almost all prior behavioral safety research has been applied in work settings where employees can systematically observe the safe versus at-risk behavior of their coworkers. In contrast, truck and bus drivers work alone in relative isolation and thus require alternative strategies. Until recently, the primary problem has been getting quality behavioral data on driving behaviors to improve fleet safety. If behavioral approaches can be integrated with technologies that monitor driver behavior, fleet safety managers can have an effective tool for improving safety-related behaviors that occur when there is little or no opportunity for interpersonal observation and feedback.
This is exactly what DriveCam provides – continuous monitoring that verifies lessons have been applied, protects drivers and ensures ongoing reductions in the causes of poor driving. With DriveCam’s program, fleet managers can improve fleet safety year over year. And with our focus on efficiency, fleet managers maximize their ROI with a minimal impact on their fleet operations.