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.Do you take drugs?
I am not thinking about illegal drugs here either.
I have spent the last few days dealing with a cough and cold, not man flu I hasten to add, just an ordinary cold. I my personal case any cold I get always results in a rather nasty cough. I have been taken mainly paracetamol and codeine, because most of the cough medicines on the market contain alcohol, which could trigger in a breath alcohol test.
Now I will always take the correct medicine to get better quickly , but I always read the documentation that comes with the medicine. Some of them state that you should not operate heavy machinery and when it comes to heavy machinery there are few vehicles that are not what I would call heavy machinery.
Now if you are driving under the influence of drugs, whether they are illegal or prescribed drugs and you have a collision you stand a good chance of being prosecuted for driving whilst under the influence of drink or drugs. The worrying part for business owners is that if that driver is your employee and you do not have systems and procedures to ensure your employees are not driving under the influence, you may find yourself on the wrong end of a prosecution for permitting your employee to drive whilst under the influence.
That is food for thought during this, National Road Safety Week and as the theme is ‘Not a Drop, Not a Drag’. If you are at all concerned about how to deal with this potentially difficult subject then you should perhaps give our team a call for the solution to your problems.
Nigel Grainger
Senior Consultant
Fleet Risk Consultants