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Energy firm SSE's partnership with fleet safety company Applied Driving has been extended.
The decision is said to have been made due to success in compliance with permits to drive, as well as a significant reduction in collisions, since SSE first deployed an Applied Driving programme in 2015.
Through the permit to drive process, each of SSE's 9,000 company and grey fleet drivers goes through an annual risk profiling and licence check to ensure they meet legal and company requirements.
A driver education programme is designed to combat fleet risk through targeted training, combining e-learning, classroom and in-vehicle sessions. It is said to use insights from telematics data, risk assessments and post collision events to identify risks, meaning supportive tools and actions can be issued to drivers where they need it most.
In addition, drivers under the age of 23 or with less than two years of driving experience receive individual development plans and undertake essential skills training, including a workshop and in-vehicle assessment.
Over the next 12 months, SSE intends to keep evolving the programme, integrating its fleet telematics system with Applied Driving's Riskmapp system, so driving data can be shared, analysed, and automated actionable insights can be created.
This will enable SSE drivers to take advantage of the Companion+ Telematics tool, which automatically assesses at-risk driving events and sends 'Triggered Training' in the form of safety messages, videos and e-learning modules tailored specifically to their individual needs.
SSE group road risk safety manager Stephen Wilson said: "Our ongoing partnership with Applied Driving has consistently delivered measurable improvements in terms of road safety, legal compliance and duty of care.
"By working together, we are well-placed to evolve our approach and continue to mitigate the threat of fleet risk within the business, enabling us to better protect our employees, the local communities we operate in, and the wider general public."
Applied Driving director of client partnerships Nigel Lawrence said: "We are hugely excited by this latest extension with SSE, because it allows us to build on the road safety successes achieved to date.
"Our successful partnership demonstrates what can be accomplished by fleets through the creation and ongoing development of a sustainable safety culture that targets fleet risk and promotes responsible driving among employees."
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