Making Safety a Priority - Copy

There are plenty of factors to consider when developing a fleet safety culture. Being responsible for the well-being of drivers, as well as everyone else on the road, can become a much simpler task once you understand how to break down the key elements. This begins by developing a new fleet safety culture that is part policy and part system implementation.

To improve your safety culture, you will need data to identify and understand the strengths and deficiencies of your fleet. By having a widespread system to collect data and showcase driver habits, you’ll find that there are plenty of violations that can be easily corrected. All of which leads to heightened safety and overall lower operating costs.

Improve Fleet Safety by Monitoring Risky Behavior

Installing a safety analytics system that allows fleet managers to view specific events is a proven way to improve performance and driver safety. By gauging fleet safety, managers are able to track and analyze safety performance through comprehensive driving events, which allow operators to pinpoint up-to-date traffic violations and driving patterns. The ability to see these types of events allows fleet managers to oversee particular driving habits in conjunction with safety training and policies.

Analyze Data and Track Fleet Safety Violations

Gauging fleet safety with an event viewer provides fleet managers with a plethora of safety metric information, including the event in question’s time, location, length and type.

Focus on Specific Traffic Violations

If a driver seems to have difficulty with particular events, a safety analytics system will show fleet managers when a vehicle is accelerating too quickly, cornering, braking heavily, violating stop signs or speeding.

Fleetwide Safety Concerns

Rather than going through the violations of each vehicle one at a time, use a system that shows your entire fleet or sub fleet’s safety lapses. This allows fleet managers to reassess and correct widespread issues with additional training and increased awareness for drivers.

Implement and Gauge Safety Improvement Plans

Once problem areas have been identified, the solutions must be implemented. The initial improvements to fleet safety will go a long way, but it is a continuous cycle. Managers should be constantly evaluating the effectiveness of their applied changes and then begin this process all over again as a way to continually improve their fleet’s safety.