Benchmarking gives the opportunity to make like-for-like comparisons

2021 is set to become a landmark year for all involved in driving for work safety as a major new benchmarking project is officially launched.

Funded by the Department for Transport, in partnership with Fleet News, Driving for Better Business and RoadSafe, this project will overhaul the way fleet managers, bosses, business owners – and drivers – measure their individual road safety and environmental performance.

An online tool will, for the first time, allow organisations of all sizes to compare and contrast their achievements against others in the same sector, giving them the ammunition to dramatically improve their own performance. 

Benchmarking will provide participants with important new comparative data to support internal business cases and provide valuable sources of information for their sustainability reporting programmes.

Experts in the field of road safety have long been concerned not only about levels of basic compliance across some industry sectors, but also a lack of awareness as to how efficient record-keeping, driving-for-work policies, effective communication with the workforce, driver checks and management leadership can significantly boost safety and performance.

Here we speak to three organisations which seized the initiative early on and which are throwing their weight behind the new benchmarking project, to discover why they decided to be involved – and how they went about it.