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Six vehicle hire companies have signed up to support a new campaign to encourage their employees and consumers to wear their seatbelt every time they get in any vehicle.

Three in every five fleets continue to allow their drivers to use hands-free phones while driving, preferring to offer guidelines on their use rather than imposing an outright ban.

Road safety charity Brake has launched a new website providing fleet safety advice, information and resources.

A leading safety expert has joined the fray over the use of hands-free mobile phones behind the wheel with a warning that they are just the ‘thin end of the wedge’ in the battle for improved safety on the road.

Home delivery company, Hermes, has seen £1 million in cost savings in the last 12 months, after introducing a range of safe-driving measures.

Analysis by Direct Line has identified the UK's top ten ‘crash for cash' hotspots

As part of its road safety programme, volunteer Arval employees are trialling an innovative seatbelt enhancement device to assess its safety and posture benefits.

Fleet News has linked up with the FIA Foundation on a European survey to establish views from fleet operators about safety and assistance systems.

Despite what fleet managers may think, size is not important. The benefits of improving the safety of a company’s drivers are the same if a fleet is five or 5,000 vehicles.

The leadership teams of both AA DriveTech and a2om International have announced a formal partnership focused on delivering online risk assessment and e-learning technology to the corporate fleet management world.

Risk management and duty of care return to the top of the agenda for fleets, according to the latest Company Car Trends report from GE Capital’s Fleet Services business.

ATS Euromaster has been accredited by the Contractors Health and Safety Scheme (CHAS), a local authority and government-backed initiative for health and safety pre-qualification in the UK.

Calls are mounting for a ban on the use of hands-free phones while driving after new research revealed their use was detrimental to the performance of 97.5% of drivers.

A majority of fleets want the rules changed so road crashes involving at-work drivers would be reported to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), according to a Fleet News poll.

Implementation of a comprehensive occupational road risk management strategy coupled with a targeted drive to reduce vehicle use has resulted in Essex County Council becoming the latest organisation to achieve ‘business champion’ status from the Government-backed ‘Driving for Better Business’ campaign.

The deadline for entries to the Fleet Safety Forum Awards for Excellence has been extended to 30 April 2010.

New employee ‘fit notes’, which have been introduced in place of old-fashioned ‘sick notes’ will require careful monitoring if staff affected drive as part of their job.

The consequences and implications of road crashes, salary sacrifice schemes and parking regulations will be under the spotlight at ACFO’s annual Conference and AGM - the major event of the year for the UK’s leading fleet decision-maker’s organisation.