Nigel Grainger brings together a related set of skills that all fleets require, to greater or lesser
degrees, but which may not have the staffing or the skills to fulfil those needs.
Bringing his wealth of experience in all areas of fleet management he offers a bespoke service through his company Fleet Risk Consultants, providing you with a cost effective fleet that complies fully with your 'duty of care' requirements.Corporate Manslaughter Legislation – Could it happen to you?
Here at Fleet Risk Consultants we like to keep an eye on collision information regardless of where in the world those collisions occur. Over the weekend this collision appeared on our radar and it raised so many issues pertinent to so many of our readers that we thought we should share it with you all.
The story in the San Francisco Chronicle gives us in the United Kingdom an insight into how the advertising clause in the Corporate Manslaughter Legislation might work. Not only does the article discuss in detail the crash of the bus, it also mentions the owner of the bus (who died in the crash) and the casino that had contracted the bus to deliver customers to its site.
The investigation is still ongoing, but it is clear that the agencies concerned have looked at the driver, owner and the casino. From the article it would appear that the driver was driving erratically, but there appears to have been little or no standards of safety at the bus operator and the casino appear to have had little interest in how the buses delivering their customers were being operated.
If you hire a bus to transport your staff or customers from place to place do you check they are operating in a safe and legal manner or do you just assume it? If you do not ask the basic questions, are you being diligent in your selection of supplier? If you were hiring a company to move £40 millions of your money you would ensure that they were reputable, insured and compliant in every way. If you put 40 people on a bus your are creating the same value of risk exposure, if not more. The average cost of a fatal collision is around £1 million.
The casino should, in our opinion, have carried out audits on the bus companies they were paying to bring customers to their site. Carrying out those checks every six months or even quarterly would not have been that expensive, but it would have allowed the senior managers to sleep soundly in their beds and may have prevented Mr Cobb from trying to use that bus and driver that fateful night.
The question we would ask all our readers is ‘Are you doing all you can to ensure the safety of your staff, customers and the public?’
If you think you are, should you perhaps check again?