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Equity Red Star has launched a new at-work driving risk management solution featuring Fleet Support Group’s cutting-edge one-stop shop web-based RiskMaster product with the option to embrace in-vehicle telematics.
Called Fleetsure Assist, it enables employers to meet their legal health and safety at work commitments with simpler administration and supports Equity’s fleet insurance policy, Fleetsure.
RiskMaster has been developed over seven years and ensures compliance with all areas associated with driving at work resulting in employees being given a ‘Permit to Drive’, which is regularly reviewed.
Embracing, an at-work driving policy document, risk assessment, continuous performance measures including vehicle and driver licence checks, RiskMaster enables businesses to compile a ‘Driver Operating Life Report’ for each member of staff from data which is continually used to assess individual drivers in their driving-at-work activity.
In addition, based on individual assessments targeted solutions, such as driver training, may also be provided.
Fleetsure Assist with RiskMaster can also include a telematics option known as iRIS (Integrated Risk Information System). The technology provides fleet decision-makers with real-time information on where and how vehicles are being driven thus providing an accurate picture of driver performance. Additionally, it enables fleet managers to keep tabs on issues such as vehicle fuel efficiency and maintenance and repair costs so enabling them to have their finger firmly on the pulse of operations.
David Grant, Equity Red Star’s head of sales and marketing, said: “Occupational road risk management is not only part of health and safety legislation, but also makes good business sense. An active programme and policy can prevent work-related incidents and accidents saving both time and costs and possible insurance claims for negligence.
“Experience shows us that customers who have introduced a risk management strategy have benefited from insurance premium reductions as well as significant savings in administration time as a result of fewer road crashes.
“By joining forces with Fleet Support Group we have opened the door to enable our fleet customers to implement a risk management solution that will put their operation on the road to a safety-focused future.”
Fleet Support Group chairman Geoffrey Bray said: “RiskMaster reduces accidents, incidental damage, maintenance and repair costs as well as insurance premiums to more than pay for itself.
“It is a significant safety-focused advance for car, van and truck fleets irrespective of the number of vehicles operated.”
Equity Red Star is the largest personal lines syndicate at Lloyd’s and has been providing insurance to business and personal lines customers for the past 60 years. It has more than one million policyholders.
Fleet Support Group (FSG) is the largest independent vehicle management company in the UK and looks after approximately 50,000 vehicles.
The well-established organisation based in Chippenham, Wiltshire, has gained an enviable reputation within the industry by continually concentrating on delivering a consistent, quality service embracing full vehicle acquisition and disposal, vehicle outsourcing, fleet management, risk management and work-related road safety, maintenance management, accident management, breakdown recovery, short-term car rental and truck management.
Within the FSG team, there is significant industry experience and qualifications across the range of services provided. This in turn is supported by an in-house IT operation which is continuously upgrading the internal systems and applications to ensure that, by innovation and product development, FSG leads the field in the provision of vehicle management.