Road Safety
I have have a leaflet from IAM who are based in our town,with the results of a survey they carried out, in 2019 on companies attitude to mobile phones in vehicles and what is expected of drivers
1 In 2009 5,442 at work drivers were seriously injured or killed on on UK roads this had risen to 5,506 2018
2 49% of employers expect their drivers to answer their phones at any time including while driving
3 over one in eight employees 13% think the hard shoulder is an acceptable place to make a phone call and take a work related call,
There it states seems to be a growing trend in employer/employee expectations that it is an acceptable practice, so when as it seems more vehicles that we follow are going slower and slower or weaving in front ,there is a good chance its the "Boss?" ringing
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That does not shock me at all😕. Until those in charge accept responsibility for their actions(demands they make on employees) it will Never get better.
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I do feel for the employees who are put upon in this way and expected to break the law. There are similar conditions imposed regarding speed and driver's hours with tight schedules which are hard to adhere to.
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The boss/wife/mother/mother-in-law or whoever it might be isn't the one who has to do either the time or pay the fine so switch the blooming thing off whilst driving.
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Doesn’t surprise me in the least what employers expect. Expectation is that employees will attend with often serious illnesses, schools expect children to attend with viral infections so that the Ofsted figures are maintained. Crazy......🤷♂️ History tells us that such Victorian practices, brought into the 21st C, are going to have profound consequences at some point or other. Might be just what the planet requires.......
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From personal experience (when I was a passenger) texting whilst driving is dangerous . I know that because whilst reading one I lost track of what was happening ahead but fortunately my driver didn't.
As regards to answering a phone call, a hand free set up is to be preferred so that you have two hands on the wheel and can still concentrate on what is happening up ahead.
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Watching the film "Sorry we Missed You", more a documentary than fiction, about the life of a white van man and his family, is a revealing experience, and one I'd recommend. if you've not yet seen it.
But it's not just employees - as I pulled away from the school I worked in today, there was yet another parent doing a one-handed turn in the restricted zone outside the school, while the other hand held her phone to her ear. (Happened to be a "she" but both genders equally guilty from what I see.) I see this all too often.
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