Businesses offered worker driver training

BUSINESSES are being urged to sign up to a series of free driver training sessions to ensure they are satisfying their legal obligations in the health and safety and duty of care of their staff, who drive on company business.

Around 20 people in the UK are killed and 220 serious injuries are sustained every week in collisions involving someone who is driving for work.

Transport initiative Inmotion! is hosting an Eco-Business Driving breakfast seminar at Tankersley Manor in Barnsley on Thursday, February 26 from 8.30am to 10am.

It will give an opportunity for businesses to find out about the Government-backed, free driver education programme, aimed at improving driver safety, ensuring company compliance of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974, reducing collision rates, and helping to save money on fuel and other driving related costs.

South Yorkshire Safer Roads Partnership are also running a series of Safer Driving at Work taster sessions at the Lifewise Centre on Hellaby Industrial Estate in Rotherham.

Sessions are being held on Thursday, March 12 from 3.30pm and 6pm and on Wednesday, April 15 from 5pm.

To book your place at one of the sessions, email the Inmotion! team [email protected].