Posted By J Knight Hi Ali, I agree that a requirement for further training should be risk driver; RoSPA certainly take this approach in carrying our their MORR assessments. We have had an assessment from RoSPA, and although it was expensive I feel it was worthwhile. More recently we have had our fundraisers (some of who drive extensively for work) assessed by an organisation called DriveTech (other providers exist). This was online, and looked at three key risk aspects, driver history, attitudes and something else. As a consequence we have 30 high risk drivers who will get on-to-one on-road tuition, and about 15 people who will get workshop training. All this is quite expensive, and we have reduced costs by omitting from the training programme all those who drive for us on rare occasions only, John

Posted By J Knight Hi Ali, My post ended up a bit garbled because I was about to go into a meeting and had to rush a bit. In essence, the management shouldn't just make a decision as to who should and should not attend training; that decision should fall out of the Risk Assessment. If the Risk Assessment findings are that everybody should be trained, then so be it. What we found was that the individual driver assessments recommended by our overall road risk assessment showed that only some of our fundraisers need training; some of them are fine as they are. They also showed that different people need different levels of training. So we don't just throw money away on one size fits all training. Get your drivers properly evaluated and use that as the basis for decision making. DriveTech charged us £10 a head for the on-line assessment (we got slight discount but the full price isn't much more), and we used one person's time for a couple of hours as a contact point with DriveTech: cheap at the price, John John

Posted By Arran Linton - Smith John Knight, Could you contact me direct on this matter as I have just been asked review workplace driver safety arrangements? Arran