Within the UK, one of many few progress sectors through the COVID-19 pandemic has been transportation providers and specifically, meals supply.

By the tip of March 2020, income within the UK on-line groceries supply phase was up by 11.5% in contrast with Jan-March within the earlier yr. Regardless of the quantity of visitors on our roads falling to ranges not seen since 1955 through the pandemic, the variety of individuals driving for work to ship meals and different gadgets has elevated.

In the identical month, Tesco added greater than 200 new vans and employed one other 2,500 drivers. Different supermarkets corresponding to Morrisons adopted swimsuit and created an additional 3,500 short-term positions to assist handle the elevated demand through the pandemic, with many smaller meals retailers and eating places quickly creating their capability to do dwelling deliveries.

The coronavirus pandemic has introduced enormous modifications to the way in which we work, with report numbers of individuals working from dwelling and an elevated reliance on supply drivers to assist handle self-isolation. There’s a good motive to imagine that a few of these modifications could be everlasting.

What classes does COVID-19 present for security and fleet managers?

In our globalized, interconnected world we can’t rule out an identical occasion to COVID-19 going down sooner or later. So it is vital that fleet managers construct resilience in to their group to assist handle unexpected conditions like pandemics, which vastly alter the demand for his or her providers.

A technique they will do that is by investing in on-line driver coaching which might enable a enterprise to quickly scale-up their fleet and supply operation while sustaining a dedication to the well being and wellbeing of its workers.

The significance of on-line driving programs

RoSPA supplies a collection of on-line driving programs that present sensible, versatile and handy methods for drivers to be up-skilled shortly, affordably and with out compromising on high quality. Theses on-line driving programs are handy, comparatively fast to finish and can be found 24/7 wherever on this planet.

This model of studying additionally means much less disruption to office operations and time away from core duties, along with value financial savings by sooner supply and no coach charges. Furthermore, they provide organizations a way of continuous to develop and up-skill their workforce while sustaining their advocacy for safer roads.

Driver Profiler

Driver Profiler is RoSPA’s modern on-line driver threat evaluation instrument which predicts ranges of driver security and associated threat by measuring psychometric, demographic and behavioral components that affect driver behaviour. These measures present wonderful insights into the danger posed by drivers, and permit managers to check people and make selections on the availability of applicable coaching.

On-line Driver Coaching

RoSPA’s On-line Driver Coaching course gives fleet managers an extra coaching instrument, which can be utilized as a preliminary measure to determine the place in-vehicle coaching sources might be most successfully employed, or as refresher coaching for many who have already benefited from in-vehicle coaching .

On-line Driver Security Bundle

Our On-line Driver Security Bundle is a web-based driver evaluation and coaching package deal which mixes our well-liked Driver Profiler and On-line Driver Coaching providers. This on-line resolution will permit you to fulfill your authorized responsibility of care to threat assess your fleet of drivers and observe up with important coaching to make sure all of your drivers are outfitted with key introductory information and driving expertise concept.

All of those on-line driving programs will help organizations ‘future-proof’ their coaching program ought to the flexibility to have face-to-face coaching develop into unavailable. For extra info on our suite of on-line driving programs please go to our web site, name us on +44 (0)121 248 2233 or e-mail.