Q. What’s a good starting point for addressing cell phone safety?
First, communicate with employees and drivers the crash risks and the need for a policy...
A. Technology is the key to truly enforcing a no-cell-phone policy. Drivers may say they are following policy, but without technology there is no way to really know. A great comparison is before telematics, fleet managers knew their drivers were idling their vehicles but couldn’t prove or enforce it. New safety technologies, allow you to know for certain that your policies are being followed.
When looking into cell phone safety solutions, look for ones that do the following:
Fleets that are fully equipped with safety technology will change driver’s behavior in the context of the policy, creating a true safety culture.
Director of Business Development at ORIGOSafeDriver
First, communicate with employees and drivers the crash risks and the need for a policy...
Having a no cell-phone-use-while-driving policy is ideal. Even talking on the phone hands-free can be a cognitive distraction...
In today’s environment, every fleet should have a cell phone policy, at the very least, in place. With many business’s still feeling the financial impacts of the pandemic, crashes can have even greater bottom-line consequences...
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