Promoting best practice in road safety at work

Using the roads is a necessary part of everyone’s daily business, often for work-related purposes. It is therefore unacceptable that an ordinary activity leads to an incredibly high level of injury and death. Work-related crashes involve heavy goods vehicles and buses, but also cars and light vans. It must be considered that the service sector often emphasises the importance of travelling to meet clients on site and face-to-face.

This is defined ‘mobile working’, where the car becomes a de facto office for employees. Employers have a responsibility to provide their employees with a safe environment also on the roads. ETSC launched PRAISE, a 3 year project addressing all safety aspects of driving ‘at’ work and driving ‘to’ work, that aims to “praise” best practices in order to help employers secure high road safety standards for their employees.