Driver Training News
RoSPA Offer Free BTEC Opportunity to AT-Work Drivers
Drivers who pass RoSPA’s prestigious advanced driving test for “at-work” motorists now have the opportunity to upgrade their qualification free of charge.
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New Training and Quality Assurance Manager for DFS
Rick Wood has joined RoSPA’s Driver and Fleet Solutions team as Training and Quality Assurance Manager.
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New Training and Quality Assurance Manager for DFS
Rick Wood has joined RoSPA’s Driver and Fleet Solutions team as Training and Quality Assurance Manager.
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Rosemont Pharmaceuticals does RoADTest
Rosemont Pharmaceuticals Ltd is taking a proactive approach to road safety by enabling all of its staff who get behind the wheel for work to undergo advanced driver training.
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Allianz Commercial and RoSPA Join Forces
Allianz Commercial and RoSPA have joined forces to promote the importance of effective risk management for company car and van fleets.
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New 'Bonus' to keep Company Drivers safer
Company car drivers trained by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents are to get a bonus which will benefit them and their employers - and should keep them safer on the road.
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New Head of DFS
A new Head of Driver and Fleet Solutions has been appointed at the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents. Simon Protano will develop RoSPA’s portfolio of training courses and resources for managing occupational road risk, as well as overseeing the RoSPA Advanced Drivers and Riders network.
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Police Enforcement - Managing the Risk
Some Police forces have recently introduced new initiatives in their campaign to increase company bosses’ awareness of the need to comply with H&S at Work legislation in respect of Managing Occupational Road Risk.
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RoSPA and Tesco tackle work related road risk
An innovative driving challenge lies ahead of delivery staff at the UK’s largest supermarket chain, thanks to a unique partnership between RoSPA and Tesco.
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Roadwarrior on L plates
Like most men, I have always been convinced I am a driver of the highest calibre. Well, now I have learned I am not – and that's official.
I know this because I failed the Occupational Advanced Driving Test, introduced by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents to reduce deaths involving people driving on business.
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The true killing fields of Britain are its roads
Travelling on business is one of Britain’s most life-threatening occupations. However, the threat lies not in terrorism, air crashes or street crime. The true killing fields for business travellers are Britain’s roads.
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Awards Recognise Service to Road Safety
Tireless efforts to reduce deaths and injuries on Britain’s roads have been recognised by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents. Bob Smalley and Colin Pettener have both been chosen by RoSPA’s National Road Safety Committee to receive Distinguished Service Awards for Road Safety.
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Dubai - Stop the Talking
Motorists who use mobile phones while they are driving are four times as likely to be involved in accidents than those who drive under the influence, a Dubai-based study revealed yesterday.
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Make More Use of Training
Ryder Europe, commissioned a survey of commercial vehicle drivers together with an independent consumer survey of drivers (RSGB Consumer Omnibus), to find insights into their views on road safety and the key measures which could improve driver safety.
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RoSPA Scoops Another Award For Fleet Safety Software
RoSPA’s Driver Profiler was named the Innovative Road Safety Product of the Year at the Highways Magazine Excellence Awards.
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New Training and Assessment Programme for VANGUARD
VANGUARD Rental has teamed up with the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) to implement a new training and assessment programme for managers in the business.
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Three points - unless it's hands free!
Each year a 1000 people are killed in road accidents while they are working. The government wants to reduce this tragic figure by tackling such issues as hand-held mobile use while driving. What should your business be doing to ensure it won't be prosecuted? RoSPA's Charles Davis has some answers.
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Anglian Water are tackling road risk head on
Anglian Water, which serves the needs of around six million industrial, commercial and domestic customers in the East of England, is rolling out its new road risk policy early this year (2007).
Providing a launch pad for the policy's implementation was a series of Road Risk Road Shows for which the company teamed up with the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA).
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Bosses Urged to Cut Road Journeys In Bad Weather
With treacherous weather conditions expected around the UK over the next few days and a severe winter forecast, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents is urging bosses to ensure employees are not making unnecessary road journeys.
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Bryan Willcox becomes one of the youngest drivers to pass the RoSPA Advanced Test
Bryan Willcox of Doulting has become one of the youngest drivers ever to pass the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) Advanced Driving Test. Not only did he pass, but he attained the highest Gold Award at just aged 17.
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Press Release: New Warning to Car Fleet Bosses Over Mobile Phone Use
New figures on the use of mobile phones by drivers were a warning to all fleet bosses to ensure they had clear policies in place to manage the problem, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents said today.
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RoSPA's Advanced Drivers Celebrate 50 years on the road
The RoSPA Advanced Drivers’ Association – RoADA – is to celebrate 50 years of helping to make UK roads safer. Click here for full details...
Press Release : As Featured in Auto Express. Are you a sinner or a saint?
Does driving bring out the devil or an angel in you ? Auto Express put 50 drivers through RoSPA's Driver Profiler .................read on to see the end result 
PDF 700 kb (Courtesy of Auto Express)
New Chair for RoADA Lincolnshire Group
At only 19 Damian Wilkinson, takes on the position of chairman for the Lincolnshire Group.
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BikeSafe-London : Is it a success? And what does the future hold?
On Friday June 3rd 2005, the 5000th rider passed through the BikeSafe-London Rider Skills Day.
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RoSPA’s Driver Profiler Wins Top Innovation Award
A RoSPA online risk assessment tool, allowing bosses to measure the strengths and weaknesses of their employees’ driving without leaving the workplace, has won a top award for innovation.
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents has been presented with a British Safety Industry Federation Product Innovation Award for its Driver Profiler. It is one of only five winners this year.
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Company Wins Top Award After Cutting Road Accidents
A company with more than 1,100 drivers has won a special award from RoSPA after reducing its road accident rate by 28 per cent over a four-year period.
RoSPA’s trophy for managing occupational road risk (MORR™) has gone to Planned Maintenance Engineering Limited of Battersea, London.
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RoSPA Welcomes Clamp-Down On“Callous” Drivers
RoSPA said today that Government proposals for new road traffic offences to deal with bad driving were a warning to “callous” drivers that their behaviour would no longer be tolerated.
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Diploma Diary by Sandra Pennyfather
Read the experiences of Sandra Pennyfather as she successfully completes her National Diploma in Advanced Driving Instruction.
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Fleet Managers Need to Wake Up
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents issued a wake up call to fleet managers six years ago with the publication of the first guidance on how to manage occupational road risk.
Since then the pressure on employers to take the issue seriously has been building gradually. RoSPA’s shocking figures that between 800 and 1,000 deaths on Britain’s roads each year are in some way work-related have been confirmed and are now widely accepted.
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New Awards Encourage Safety Among Fleet Operators
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents is launching a new award scheme to recognise the efforts made by businesses and organisations to reduce deaths and injuries on UK roads.
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Action Call to Save Company Drivers From Penalty Points
The Government’s decision to introduce penalty points for drivers caught talking on hand-held phones needs immediate action from businesses and the car fleet industry, RoSPA warned today.
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Paul gets the Advanced Driving Golden Double
Paul Blackwell, 36, of Mold, North Wales, was the first tetraplegic to reach the Gold standard of RoSPA’s advanced driver training. Not only has Paul managed to pass this test once, but he has done it again five years later.
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Eyesight checks urged for fleet drivers
RoSPA is urging fleet managers to have policies in place to ensure their drivers’ eyesight is good enough for them to be on the road.
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Senior Member strikes gold again!
Congratulations to Mrs Constance Pearson, who at 77 years of age, has retained her gold standard. Mrs Pearson of North Lincolnshire has now held the gold grade for 9 years.
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RoSPA Warning on Fatigue Threat to Company Drivers
A new report on the dangers of driving while tired was a warning to all fleet managers of the need to tackle fatigue in their policies on managing occupational road risk, RoSPA said today (21/10/04).
The Department for Transport revealed this week that research on selected motorways and trunk roads showed that: 17 per cent of road crashes resulting in injury or death were sleep related; a quarter of all road crashes that caused death or serious injury were sleep related; 67 per cent of sleep-related crashes were caused by car drivers and 32 per cent were caused by drivers of good vehicles; while road crashes occur mostly on Fridays, these sleep-related crashes occurred least on Fridays and mostly on Mondays.
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MORR Seminar
Hilton Leeds Garforth, 2nd November 2004. For anyone concerned with tackling work-related road safety, the seminar provides a unique opportunity to hear the arguments for action, get practical advice on how to move forward and to exchange experience on good practice with others that share the same vision. FREE of charge for Toyota Fleet Customers.
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NEW Online Knowledge Test
RoSPA has teamed up with Creative Training Online to bring you this exciting new package that combines Driver Profiler with a theory test for occupational drivers.
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RAF Cottesmore Wins Defence Road Safety Competition
Read more here about the exciting achievements of the RAF as reported by RoSPA trainer, Bob Wilkey.
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Minister tries SenseAbility at the NEC
SenseAbility drew a crowd at the Safety & Health Expo 2004, including Jane Kennedy, the Minister of State for Work at the Department for Work and Pensions (which has responsibility for Health and Safety at work). Delegates were invited to sit in a Toyota MR2 as SenseAbility was displayed on a plasma screen, and instead of pressing a spacebar users pressed a foot pedal to register their responses.
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RoSPA Delivers Driver Training in Turkey
RoSPA trainers have just returned from Ankara, Turkey, where they were training and examining employees of ARGOS, a Turkish driver training company. They even managed to successfully avoid a collision in one training session - and we've got the photos to prove it!
Read the full account of this trip in Bob Smalley's own words...
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