Road safety is a challenge in day to day operations specially on heavy road transportation. Share your experience so we can save lives.

it is not easy to answer in few words, but we can start :)

 

what we need to control is driver, road, vehicle and load securing.

 

we have to start with driver, we have to choose fit drivers (medical checks), with required license, and trainings like defensive drive training from one of approved training centers.

 

you have to make random checks on drivers (drugs), also to make assessment from time to time to ensure that they know information about road safety and how they implment it. 

also we can make schools to train drivers how to drive safe, and do their job. also what they are going to face and how to act against it. it is long journey but with value.

 

for vehciles we can control the speed of it by make monitoring system IVMS or GPS, and make randome check on the records to ensure that driver is working safe.

also make weekly and daily checks on vehciles with minimum requirment.

 

the same for load securing: most of drivers don't know how to secure load or what is the impact from doing bad job. so we have to train them good with information that they need and how to implment it and assessment for the risk that they are going to face..

 

drive is easy for many people , but it is not easy to be proffessional driver

 

Khaled Saleh

EDC

Defensive Drive Trainer :)

Proper training ; dedicated drivers; tpt managers to whom road safety are a priority; proper maintanance on vehicles.

1. Depends on the life of the vehicle

2. A Proffesional Driver

3. Follow the Traffic Rules

One of the things that should be considered regarding road safety is the educational background of the country regarding road safety.
As we look at developed countries which include road safety in their educational infrastructures we can see that the number of accidents have less percentage than less developed countries.

1- use the guidance of traffic signs
2- use the safety tools
3- expiary of the vehicle

Let’s be more practical; not left all at others, let’s assess our role & responsibilities as logistics incharge:

Ø  Contractor:         Do we agree something in contract about road safety?

Ø  Driver:                  Is contractor hiring good drivers?

Ø  Vehicle:                                Is contractor are using suitable vehicles?

Ø   Rote:                    Are contractor and we are well updated about rote hazards we are operating? 

 

Ø  Load:                     Are we are taking care loads? Over load or as per specification according to trucks?