Driving for Better Business
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009A former police inspector is heading up the implementation of a robust occupational road risk management programme at energy company CE Electric UK, which has become the latest organisation to join the ‘Driving for Better Business’ campaign as a ‘business champion’.
Ex-police officer Chris Charlton was appointed to the new post of road risk manager at the company nine months ago and is charged with implementing a two-phase multi-faceted programme. His appointment, says CE Electric, underlines the board of directors’ support for the company’s safety first approach to at-work driving.
Mr Charlton, who has a 32-year career with North Yorkshire Police behind him, said: “I have been able to bring new ideas and perspectives to the occupational road risk arena in devising and supporting delivery of the programme, which is part of CE Electric’s annual safety improvement plan.
“CE Electric wanted to recruit someone with the requisite skills and experience from outside the industry to review and critique their existing safe-driving policy and procedures and to introduce an additional dimension to what they were doing.
“Having had first hand experience of dealing with and investigating road crashes during my police career I am able to pro-actively help the company tighten its safe driving standards even further to ensure compliance with recommended best practice.”
Now numbering almost 40 public and private sector organisations, the Government-backed campaign delivered by RoadSafe uses ‘business champions’ to promote the financial, legal and moral reasons for organisations across the public and private sectors to invest in at-work driving safety.
