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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.

Archive for December, 2009

Posted by Nigel on December 16, 2009

The weather is turning cold

The weather forecast in the UK is for it to turn cold and we may be in for some snow. This presents a few hazards, but the biggest is that the majority of drivers in the UK do not know how to drive in snowy conditions.

They are either too cautious, getting nowhere at all, or too gung-ho, sliding into things and people.

If you are too cautious you will find yourself sitting in the same place you started with the snow building up around you, especially at the bottom or top of slopes. With slopes you need to wait until you can go up or down in one motion, you do not want to be stopping on the slope at all.

My advice is, if you have to travel (and most of us do), plan further ahead than normal and increase the distance you need to stop by a factor of four.

More advice can be found here.

Travel safely or you may be needing our services.

Nigel Grainger

Senior Consultant

Fleet Risk Consultants

Posted by Nigel on December 7, 2009

Even Santa gets worried about travel risks

Over the weekend I had a rather stressed Head Elf on the phone from the North Pole.

The Head Elf has been told by the Elf in charge of Health and Safety that Christmas may need to be cancelled this year, because he is still trying to get to grips with the Corporate Manslaughter Legislation in the United Kingdom.

The Health and Safety Elf has read somewhere that Santa will have to undergo training to ensure that he is competent to drive the sleigh on Christmas Eve. And until that training is complete, the sleigh will be grounded.

This is where the team at Fleet Risk Consultants stepped in and to ensure that Christmas is not cancelled and Santa is not grounded we made some rapid work on document production and introduced a sense of realism into the chill of the North Pole.

Santa is perfectly capable of driving the sleigh and as he has a dispensation from all authorities on speed limits we do not have to worry about endorsements on his licence.

If there are any further developments between now and the big day, we will bring them to you here.

Nigel Grainger

Senior Consultant

Fleet Risk Consultants

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