Real time incident reporting to keep road workers safe

Notify is a smart, scalable, and secure SHEQ management system that enables you to digitalise incident reporting, audits, checklists and inspections and risk assessments.

Partner with Notify to:

• Capture and report accidents, injuries, close calls, unsafe events, road worker abuse or positive safety observations in real-time, from any location

• Obtain an accurate and consistent overview of incident reporting to track KPIs, prevent accidents and make more informed decisions faster, and with confidence

• Conduct audits and safety inspections on the go, increasing efficiency whilst saving you time

• Be confident that you have put the correct safety measures in place to identify risks and demonstrate compliance with regulators

• Promote a proactive and positive safety culture throughout your entire organisation, workforce and supply chain

The power of investigation lies in preventing future collisions, so the severity of the past incident is not a valid criterion for judging whether an investigation is necessary. Rather fleet managers can ask: What can we learn from this that can help prevent it happening again?

Questions and answers

He challenged delegates to ask some basic questions; When did they last read the Highway Code? When did their drivers last read the Highway Code?

A good investigation is all about relevant questions and straight, honest answers. Andrew says that all investigations should pose the same three key questions to the driver and to the operation.

1. Why do you think it happened?

2. Is there anything you could have done to stop it from happening?

3. If you could go back in time to 10 seconds before the impact, what would you say to the other driver to explain the way you were driving?

Nothing changes if nothing changes

If fleet operators do not gain insights into managing their road risk from their investigations, and apply those insights to making changes within their fleet, then their risk of collision will remain high.

Andrew recommends that fleets:

• Keep learning

• Keep reviewing

• Develop targeted evidence-based training programmes

• Make driving and training fun

People learn best and communicate best when they have fun, which is why gamification for training, or for facilitating an easy conversation about an otherwise difficult topic can be so useful.

National Highways are developing a guide to Incident Investigation with Andrew. Visit drivingchange.info for updates on its release.

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