Fleet Risk Consultants

The car manufacturers have been working for years to build safer vehicles which are also light and environmentally friendly. This has made motoring safer, but has generated a whole new set of challenges for the vehicle repair market.

The problem is that the motor manufacturers have started to use complex materials such as Boron Steel, plastics and adhesives. This means that the bodyshop repairing your accident damaged vehicle cannot just weld in a piece of metal as this would compromise your vehicles safety should you be involved in another collision.

Because of the need to maintain future crash worthiness any business which uses vehicles must also ensure that the repairer is capable of doing these repairs. In this are businesses are rather lucky as there is now a British Standard for repairers to operate to. The standard know as PAS 125 basically means that the repairer has the systems and skills to return your vehicle to its pre-crash state, so you know that if you crash again the vehicle will work correctly.

A word of advice for all business owners, if you need to get any vehicles repaired make sure that you get them repaired at a BSi PAS 125 approved repairer then should there be a future problem with that vehicle then you will have done everything you can. You will also be able to satisfy the requirements of any Risk Policy and be protected from prosecution under Corporate Manslaughter Legislation.

If you need help finding an approved repairer give us a call and we will point you in the right direction.

Nigel Grainger
Senior Consultant

Fleet Risk Consultants

At Fleet Risk Consultants we are always looking to reduce the risks our clients and prospective clients are exposed to. Some of you may remember that we began our association with Virtual-E and Second Life earlier last month, we can now confirm that we have embraced this new technology and are developing our second life office to allow us to hold educational seminars in all areas of the fleet industry.

Whether it is ways of reducing your fleet risks or better ways to procure your vehicles we can help you, and the best bit? We can meet with you and help you without you having to travel anywhere further than the computer you are reading this on.

If you drop into our office or send us a request, we can arrange to meet with you to discuss what you need and how we can help you.

Once the alterations to our office are complete we shall be holding an open event at which you can learn more about the services we can offer and how they can help you reduce your costs and your risks.

All you need to get access into Second Life is an email address and the ability to download the operating system, we can help you if you are struggling getting in. Once you are in Second Life you will be surprised how easy it is to both get around and network. More and more businesses are seeing the way that Second Life can help there business and now we can help your business too!

Nigel Grainger
Senior Consultant

Fleet Risk Consultants