Safer Essex Roads Partnership (Serp), made up of organisations including councils, emergency services and National Highways, said local data now showed a third of serious crashes involved at least one person driving for work at the time.<\/p>\n
As a result, it wants employers to take up the offer of getting involved in the Driving for Better Business Essex programme, which has been relaunched.<\/p>\n
It said although the Essex programme had been running since September 2024, it was being freshly promoted to help “tackle work-related road risk in the county”.<\/p>\n
Training was specially tailored to each organisation’s needs and offered a mix of classroom and practical learning, led by experienced fleet drivers, the partnership said.<\/p>\n
It highlighted how employers were legally responsible for managing the safety of staff who drive for work, whether using company cars, commercial vehicles, or their own car for the occasional journey.<\/p>\n
Serp said the project could help businesses to improve employees’ safe driving, ensure they meet all health and safety laws, and ultimately uphold reputations.<\/p>\n
Fees are charged for most of the training, but Serp said as a non-profit organisation, it aimed to keep them low.<\/p>\n
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More 20mph speed limits could be set up as part of a new scheme across Essex to cut the number of road deaths [PA Media]<\/p>\n
In March, Essex County Council said speed was a factor in nearly half of crashes <\/a>and unveiled a plan to introduce recommended speed limits, based on street use.<\/p>\n Residents were asked to give feedback on a consultation document<\/a> it drafted with Serp, with speed limits decided on a case-by-case basis \u2013 aimed at helping achieve the partnership’s goal that nobody should be killed or seriously injured on the county’s roads by 2040<\/a>.<\/p>\n The peak in the number of road deaths was announced by Essex Police in January, with the force also describing the rising number of drug-driving cases as an “epidemic”.<\/p>\n Do you have a story suggestion for Essex? Contact us below.<\/p>\n Follow Essex news on BBC Sounds<\/a>, Facebook<\/a>, Instagram<\/a> and X<\/a>.<\/p>\n More on this storyRelated internet links