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Fleets focus on wrong risk factors
Date: 27 March 2014 | Author: Jack Carfrae
Businesses are looking at the wrong driver risk factors when assessing their staff, according to Graham Hurdle, boss of internet-based driver assessment and training business E-Training World.
Instead of rating drivers by obvious factors such as points on licenses, Hurdle said they should factor in elements like hazard perception.
"Would you feel more or less safe in a car driven by someone with three points on their license but otherwise seems to be driving perfectly okay than someone who (sic) you constantly thought wasn't noticing dangerous hazards and had little idea of what road signs meant?" he said.
Hurdle suggested that this was leading to unnecessary spending on defensive driver training, and claimed that "more than 10-15% of drivers" were being wrongly assessed.
