TAKING A RISK LED APPROACH TO OCCUPATIONAL DRIVER RISK ASSESSMENT,MONITORING AND IMPROVEMENT: GOOD PRACTICE CASES FROM AROUND THE WORLD

摘要

All over the world, occupational road safety has grown in importance in recent years as theextent of the problem has emerged, and an increasing numbers of researchers, practitioners andgovernment agencies have seen its potential for protecting human and financial resources.Despite this increasing interest in the potential of occupational road safety (often called fleetsafety) to help governments to improve road safety, and organisations to reduce human andasset damage, generate business efficiencies, ensure legal compliance and cut costs, there arefew published case studies of organisations that have effectively managed this risk.The aim of the paper is to start the process of addressing this research gap, by reviewing andevaluating a risk led approach to occupational driver risk assessment, monitoring andimprovement based on a detailed global review of fleet safety research and a series ofsuccessful case studies and experiences from around the world.From this academic research, supported by real world case studies and the previouslyunpublished long term process and outcomes data available, a model process for occupationalroad safety at the organisational level will be proposed, based on taking a holistic, risk ledapproach. Lessons for researchers, policy makers and industry will also be identified.