Balfour Beatty Utility Solutions (BBUS) is rolling out Permits to Drive to 3,000 drivers across its company as it works towards a ‘zero harm’ target.

BBUS is the latest organisation to sign up to Fleet Support’s Group web-enabled RiskMaster programme.

Dave Washbourne, driver risk project manager at BBUS, has selected RiskMaster along with GreenRoad’s technology-based service that provides real-time, in-vehicle driver feedback to deliver a road risk management solution with fully auditable results.

An initial RiskMaster/GreenRoad pilot involving 50 drivers over a 10-month period has seen their risk rating reduce by 63% and their accident rate by more than 40%.

Washbourne said: “We are delighted with the results so far. It means that our employees are safer; other road users are safer; and with fewer accidents financial savings are being made.”

So far about 300 employees have been enrolled and all at-work drivers, as well as spouses and partners allowed to drive a company car, are expected to have been issued with a ‘permit to drive’, which includes a photo of them, by March 2010.

BBUS aims to achieve ‘zero harm’ by 2012. This means zero risk of any kind to the public, zero risk of fatalities and zero risk of long term harm to health.