Fleet Safety Leadership Program:
The Road Safety Challenge – Creating Cultures of Safe Driving
How can organizations create a culture where safe driving habits and choices are simply a natural part of the employee’s job? How do we create an atmosphere where employees take pride in the fact that they drive safely?
It is not easy, nor is there a magic bullet; consider seatbelt use as an example. Through years of education and promotion, almost 90% of North Americans now wear their seatbelt every time they drive; in fact most feel naked or extremely uncomfortable – even guilty if their seatbelt is not on. Many organizations make wearing a seatbelt while driving a condition of employment and for good reason, seatbelts save lives. In fact, statistics show that if 100% of drivers wore their seatbelt every time they drove, fatality rates would decrease by 30%!
To create a culture of safe driving, organizations must be prepared to support long-term ongoing initiatives. Organizational goals and policies must reflect the importance of safe driving and senior executives must lead the way by example.
Diagnostic:
Review is conducted by Dr. Randy Flemmer.
Review Consists of:
- FSI Fleet Safety Audit Report
- Review of Fleet Safety Standards, Policies and Procedures
- Review of Existing Programs
- Review of Existing Company Collision Statistics
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Once the review is complete a detailed report with recommendations is presented to senior management.
Senior Management Fleet Safety Leadership: Enabling Roles:
Program Duration: 1 day
Creating or shifting culture is not easy and cannot be completed successfully overnight. No collision reduction program is likely to have lasting impact unless they are embedded within a supportive senior-level program. To succeed at creating an enduring culture of safe driving, senior administrators must take “enabling roles”:
In promoting effective driver improvement and culture building, it is the purpose and the role of the head office to pursue policies and actions that facilitate driver improvement and to change policies or actions that impose barriers to it.
Program Topics
- Creating a company-wide consistent system of driving
- Creating long-range plans that serves as a context for the company wide and regional driver safety improvement plans.
- Using research to plan and implement driver improvement.
- Establishing company policies and procedures that provide for continuous improvement, and differences between and among regions.
- Establish a framework for curriculum and instruction in the company.
- Importance of modeling
- Establishing expectations that support successful implementation of driver safety improvement.
- Establishing a communication network between and among stakeholders to keep them informed about implementation and outcomes of the driver improvement program.
- Providing and managing head office resources to support driver improvement.
- Monitoring and evaluating the company’s improvement programs.
- Fleet Safety Coaching Fundamentals
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Supervisor Fleet Safety Workshop:
Course Duration: One day workshop
Supervisors are essential to facilitating a culture of safe driving and continuous driver improvement in their areas. As the leaders of their regions, supervisors are responsible for the ethos of the region. He or she sets the professional expectations and creates a climate to sustain these expectations. In creating and sustaining an ethos for safe driving, the supervisor’s attitude and actions can have a significant impact by creating an environment that nurtures the culture, and provides ongoing assistance and opportunities for driver growth.
By making safe driving an essential part of their own lives, supervisors encourage and model the importance of driver improvement. By showing that safe driving is a priority for themselves, through personal investments of time, energy and resources, supervisors are sending a clear message to their staffs. Studies clearly show that any fleet safety culture process must have supervisor buy-in or it is destined to failure.
Program Topics
- Foundational Tenets of Safe Driving
- Systems of Driving
- Defining the PACE System of Driving
- Extrinsic behaviours
- Intrinsic behaviours
- Keeping the Edge
- ‘Yes-Buts’
- Creating Your Plan
- Road Blocking or ‘Yes-Buts’ in Change
- Creating Fierce Discussion
- Parking Lot Meetings
- Assessment
- Supervisor Attitudes and Feedback Which Cultures of Safe Driving
- Support for Supervising Drivers
- Evaluations
- Personal Action Plan
- Team Action Plan
- Tool Box of Strategies
- Extrinsic Strategies
- Intrinsic Strategies
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High Risk Drivers: Identifying and coaching high risk drivers:
Program Duration: ½ Day
Change does not come easily to many drivers. Using research into adult learning and change theory, Fleet Safety International helps supervisors use a 3-step process to assist high risk drivers change their driving attitudes and habits.
Optional Programs:
Collision Investigation Level 1
This is not a typical collision investigation program where physics is used to determine fault. This program is a people program designed to teach manager how to work with people to ensure that similar collisions are prevented
Conducting Driver Evaluations
Supervisors are taught how to give a professional driver assessment using the FSI 63 Point Driver Assessment Form.
Fatigue Level I
Participants will assess their company’s fatigue risk using the FSI fatigue assessment.
Fatigue Level II
A train the trainer package that certifies participants to teach the ½ day FSI fatigue program