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While any decline in the number of road crash fatalities and serious injuries is to be welcomed, there remains overwhelming evidence that atwork drivers are a ‘high risk’ group.

It is for that reasons that the Department for Transport and RoadSafe are continuing to champion the benefits – financial, legal and moral – of organisations of all sizes having in place robust occupational road risk management strategies.

As we highlight in this magazine, the Department’s ‘Driving for Better Business’ programme, which is managed by RoadSafe, is looking to expand. Across the following pages there are numerous examples of measures being introduced by businesses in different sectors of industry to improve at-work driver safety. Simultaneously, the Department is conducting a wideranging review of driver training and testing and while the focus is very much on young drivers – another ‘high risk’ category – qualifications for at-work drivers are under consideration.

Read the Summer 2008 issue of RoadSafe News