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| Free On-line Self Assessment |

In order to better understand your business, we would ask you to complete our free on-line Self Assessment.  The assessment is designed to help us understand your business' compliance status and areas of subsequent risk.  Via a series of tick-box questions, the self-assessment survey identifies key areas of your business that may require attention. 

1. About your organisation

Company Name:
Type of Business:
Number of Employees:
Your Name:
Position:
Telephone:
Email:
Address:
 
Post Code:
 

2. Your vehicles:
2a. Total number of vehicles
2b. Does your organisation operate: Yes No
  1. Cars
  2. Vans
  3. Motorcycles/scooters
  4. Commercial
  5. Specialist vehicles
2c. Are your organisation’s vehicles: Yes No
 

1. Company owned

  2. Leased
  3. Hired
  4. Driver owned
  5. Other

3. Your drivers:
3a. Do you have drivers in your organisation who are: Yes No
  1. Occasional users
  2. Essential users
  3. Professional drivers
3b. Do you collect data on drivers’: Yes No
  1. Ages
  2. Gender
  3. Experience
  4. Crash involvement (work and non-work)
  5. Enforcement points
  6. Driver training achievement

4. Your drivers’ journeys:
  Does your organisation collect data on journeys, including: Yes No
  1. Length of journeys
  2. Cumulative mileages
  3. Journey purposes

5. Your organisation’s accident experience:
  Do you collect and analyse data on road accidents, including: Yes No
  1. Number
  2. Type (primary cause)
  3. Vehicle characteristics
  4. Driver characteristics
  5. Location
  6. Journey purpose
  7. Date and time of occurrence
  8. Severity (injury and damage)

6. Your organisation’s fleet safety costs:
  Does your organisation identify and analyse the costs of: Yes No
  1. All at-work road accidents
  2. Fleet Insurance
  3. Fuel
  4. Servicing
  5. Repairs
  6. Staff absence due to road injury
  7. Preventive measures

7. Your organisation's MORR policy (Please tick) Yes No
  1. Has your organisation developed a policy on MORR setting out its corporate road safety objectives?
If Yes, go to Question 2. If No, go to question 7
  2. Is this part of your organisation’s health and safety policy statement?
  3. Has the MORR policy been communicated to all staff?
  4. Is it clearly understood by managers and drivers?
  5. Is the policy actively supported by senior managers?
  6. Was it developed through consultation with staff and their representatives?
  7. Has a date been set for review of the policy?

8. Organising for MORR (Please tick) Yes No
  1. Does the overall responsibility for MORR rest with a named senior manager/director?
  2. Are the responsibilities of the line managers for MORR clearly spelled out?
  3. Have managers been trained in MORR?
  4. Are managers who are responsible for staff who have to drive, held accountable for MORR performance?
  5. Do they have the resources (time, budget, staff) to carry out their MORR role?
  6. Is the MORR performance of line managers and drivers regularly assessed (e.g. as part of periodic staff appraisal)?

9. Your organisation’s approach to planning and implementation (Please tick) Yes No
9A. Does your organisation have a risk assessment procedure in place for work on the road?
9B. If so, does it encompass all safety critical features (ie of journeys and vehicles and not just the driver)?
9C. Are responsibilities for carrying out risk assessments clearly defined?
9D. Have managers and drivers been trained in risk assessment techniques?
9E. Are assessments generic or task specific?
9F. Are the results of risk assessment properly recorded?
9G. Are they communicated to relevant staff?
9H. Have assessment results been used to prioritise risk control actions?
9I. Have any of the following control measures been introduced? (please tick) Yes No
  1. Eliminating unnecessary vehicle movements
  2. Changing mode of transport
  3. Avoiding driving in adverse conditions
  4. Reducing distances
  5. Controlling drivers’ hours
  6. Specifying ‘safest’ routes
  7. Setting safe schedules (e.g. rest breaks)
  8. Specifying appropriate vehicles (e.g. ‘fit for purpose’ – e.g. load carrying, additional safety features etc)
  9. Ensuring effective vehicle maintenance
  10. Selecting appropriate drivers
  11. Ensuring driver fitness
  12. Establishing clear policies on substance abuse
  13. Banning mobile phone use while driving
  14. Providing driver training programmes
  15. Procedures to prevent assault (e.g. harassment of female drivers)
  16. Providing supervision, briefing, information and guidance
  17. Award or incentive schemes
9J. Have any targets been set (e.g. accident rate reductions, training requirements, new procedures etc)?
9K. Have the timescales been set for achieving these?
9L. Have any MORR standards been set for (please tick) Yes No
  1. Driver fitness (e.g. eyesight)
  2. Driver competence
  3. Control of speed
  4. Maximum continuous driving (before breaks)
  5. Maximum daily, weekly, monthly etc driving hours/miles
  6. Night/adverse conditions driving
  7. Vehicle safety specifications
  8. Vehicle maintenance
  9. Alcohol
  10. Drugs (including prescription drugs)
  11. Mobile phones
  12. Other? (Please specify)  
 
9M. Has an MORR action plan been drawn up?
9N. Has it been communicated to all relevant managers?
9O. Are appropriate arrangements in place to deal with emergencies?

10. How your organisation monitors its performance (Please tick) Yes No
  1. Is regular monitoring carried out to assess compliance with MORR standards?
If yes, go to Question 2. If No, go to Question 3
  2. Are the results properly analysed/recorded/disseminated?
  3. Have appropriate MORR performance indicators been selected (e.g. accident rates, training targets, actions by managers/drivers/others, costs etc)?
  4. Are there clear reporting procedures for accidents and incidents?
  5. Do these cover ‘near-misses’ as well as crashes?
  6. Is there a procedure in place to investigate accidents/incidents?
  If Yes, go to Question 7. If No, go to question 11
  7. Does it cover costs?
  8. Is there a person responsible for investigation?
  9. Are lessons from accidents and incidents fed back into the management system to promote safety learning?

11. Your organisation’s approach to performance review (Please tick) Yes No
  1. Does your organisation periodically review its MORR performance against agreed standards and targets?
If Yes, go to Question 2. If No, go to question 12
  2. Does the review cover MORR management action (e.g. compliance by managers and drivers with MORR standards) as well as accident rates?
  3. Are conclusions from MORR reviews fed back to assist in future planning?
  4. Are they also fed back within the organisation (for example, through meetings, internal communications, notice boards, in-house magazines etc)?

12. Auditing your MORR system (Please tick) Yes No
  1. When your organisation audits its health and safety management system, does this cover MORR?
If Yes, go to Question 2. If No, go to question 13
  2. Are the results considered at senior management level?
  3. Do results lead to appropriate follow-up actions?

13. Any Additional Information
 
 
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