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HIRE AND RENTAL NEWS • NOVEMBER 2016
TRUCKS & TRAILERS
“Road safety statistics reveal a major
challenge globally and at home,”Aidan
said. “Globally, road traffic deaths and
serious injuries around the globe remain
at a staggering 1.25 million and 50 million
respectively.
“The World Health Organisation
estimates road traffic deaths and serious
injuries are expected to be the seventh-
leading cause of death worldwide by
2030.
"On average, four people are killed and
90 are seriously injured every day on
Australia’s roads. Annual cost to the
Australian economy has been estimated
to be at least A$27 billion.
"Business has a golden opportunity to
influence a significant improvement
in the road toll, principally through a
sharpened focus on vehicle safety and
influencing driver behaviour. Shaping
the right driver behaviour remains both
A business approach to improving road safety implemented
According to Aidan Hayes, owner and Managing Director of Extraordinary Safety,
road safety has a material impact on business, from employee safety to supply chain
performance and overall business productivity.
the biggest challenge and opportunity to
push continual improvement in driving
safety,”Aidan said.
“Technology can help and what gets
measured gets managed. Advances
in information technology, such as
telematics and GPS provide businesses
with crucial information on their own
fleet and their contractor’s fleet road
safety performance. Such information
can help improve safe driving
behaviour, and identify and focus on key
performance indicators in driving safety
improvements.
“The new telematics technology can help
an organisation test and verify how their
own and contractor vehicles are being
driven.
"With GPS tracking and Telematics,
a business can accurately track
vehicle location, speed, breaking and
acceleration, and a host of other measures
to provide essential data to management
on how all fleet vehicles are driven.
“Major companies such as BP have
created heavy and light vehicle safe
driver recognition programs and provide
globally reward and recognition for safe
driving through their annual Driver of
the Year events. Information to select
such excellence in driving is extracted
principally from their worldwide IVMS
(Telematics) systems.
“Businesses that do not have telematics
systems available to help them
understand their driving safety risk
should seriously examine the benefits and
consider installing them. The benefits far
outweigh the cost.”
Pinpoint GPS Telematics can help
improve your driver safety and increase
your field work force productivity.
Contact 1300 728 882 or visit:
pinpointcomms.com.au
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