Organisations from across the globe have made it through to the final stage of Brake’s Fleet Safety Awards 2016.

The road safety charity received a record number of first-time entries this year and now more than 60 organisations are in with a chance of winning one of 15 prestigious awards.

The annual event, sponsored by ARI and supported by FORS, recognises the achievements of fleet operators and suppliers who are working hard to reduce road crashes involving at-work drivers.

This year’s finalists include household names such as Nestlé, Royal Mail and Sainsbury’s, as well as smaller companies such as Cogent Breeding, O'Donovan Waste Disposal and South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust.

A full shortlist (details below) has now been released for each category, and winners will be announced at a gala dinner on Thursday, September 29, at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole, Birmingham.

Ellie Pearson, professional engagement manager at Brake, said: “We’ve been incredibly impressed with this year’s entries and it’s great that many companies have entered our awards for the first time.

"It is fantastic that so many organisations of different sizes are making a real effort to end the needless crashes on our roads as a result of at-work drivers.

"Our judges now have the difficult task of choosing the winners and we wish all our finalists the best of luck and look forward to seeing them all at our awards dinner.”

The 2016 shortlists are as follow:

Company driver safety award (small fleet), sponsored by Fleetmaster

• Barway Services Hostels
• Cogent Breeding 
• O’Donovan Waste Disposal 
• The Rank Group
• Tructyre Fleet Management 

Company driver safety award (medium fleet), sponsored by Fleetmaster

• Eurovia UK
• Freightliner
• National Express
• Schneider Electric
• South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust
• Turners Soham 

Company driver safety award (large fleet), sponsored by Fleetmaster

• Addison Lee
• British Gas
• Deliveroo
• Royal Mail Group
• Skanska UK

Eco fleet award

• Addison Lee
• Deliveroo
• Gnewt Cargo 
• O’Donovan Waste Disposal 
• Skanska UK

• South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust

Fleet safety analysis and action Award, sponsored by Ocado

• Aster Group
• Independent Consultancy & Owens Group UK 
• Morrison Utility Services
• Schneider Electric
• SSE and Applied Driving Techniques (ADT)
• UCB

 Fleet safety innovation award (operator), sponsored by Allianz Insurance

• Addison Lee
• Biffa
• Kuehne + Nagel
• McGee
• McGee and Nottingham Trent University
• South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust

Fleet safety innovation award (supplier), sponsored by Allianz Insurance

• Applied Driving Techniques
• Checked Safe
• CILT Transport and Logistics Safety Forum
• Dawes Highway Safety
• Driver First Assist CIC
• Quartix 
• Vision Techniques

 Fleet safety partnership award

• CILT Transport and Logistics Safety Forum
• eDrivingFleet, Nestlé Italy and Zurich
• Fleet Operations and MSD
• FMG and Abbott Laboratories
• McGee and Nottingham Trent University
• Phillips 66 
• Royal Mail Group and Pertemps Driver Training

 Fleet safety product award

• Checked Safe
• DriverMetrics
• eDrivingFleet
• FleetMaster (OSS) 
• McGee

Fleet safety product award (in-vehicle technology)

• GreenRoad Technologies
• Intelligent Telematics
• SmartWitness - VanProtect
• VisionTrack
• SmartDrive Systems 
• Telogis

 Global road safety award, sponsored by Vision Techniques

• eDrivingFleet
• FUNDACIÓN MAPFRE
• Safety Shield Systems
• Kunhadi

 Road safety in the community award

• Arval
• Autoline Insurance Group
• Licence Bureau
• Ocado
• Skanska UK
• Travis Perkins

Safe vehicles award

• Drive Dynamics
• London Borough of Redbridge
• McGee
• Morrison Utility Services
• Palletline London
• Sainsbury's and Cycle Safety Shield
• Tarmac Trading

Road risk manager of the year award, sponsored by Licence Bureau

• Richard Branston (Freightliner Road Services)
• Su Dhami (The Rank Group)
• Janusz Kozlowski (Tristar Worldwide Chauffeur Services)
• Alison Moriarty (Skanska)
• Stephen Wilkinson (Addison Lee)

Kevin Storey award for outstanding commitment to road safety

• Announced on the night