Fleet safety and fleet safety management solutions

By operating a safer fleet, you have the potential to save money in a number of areas of your fleet budget: 

• Insurance: A safer fleet will generally have fewer at-fault collisions, which will help lower insurance premiums. If you implement dash cams, then you may be able to use high-quality footage to avoid false insurance claims against your company. Many insurance companies even offer lower rates to fleets that use dash cams.
• Personnel: With fewer collisions and improved safety, fleet managers will benefit from less employee downtime, lower medical costs, and less need to pay expensive overtime to cover absent drivers.
• Maintenance: By reducing fleet safety violation incidents — including speeding and harsh braking — your vehicles will suffer from less wear and tear. This can result in lower maintenance costs and reduced vehicle downtime.
• Vehicles: A lower accident rate and reduced vehicle wear and tear will help increase vehicle utilization rates, reduce the need for standby vehicles, and reduce vehicle depreciation rates. 

Geotab, together with our vetted Marketplace partners, offer a range of web-based software and fleet management devices to monitor and improve fleet safety.

The MyGeotab open fleet telematics platform helps you better manage your drivers’ safety performance with the following features:

• Driver safety reporting dashboards to help you identify fleet driver safety trends and get a quick overview of your fleet’s riskiest drivers to see who needs additional training. Gain insights into key fleet safety metrics such as speeding, harsh braking, backing up, seat belt use, and more.
• Driver scorecard report to help you identify your fleet’s top performers and recognize their contributions.
• Safety alerts to immediately notify you of possible collisions, so you can take the right actions.
• Real-time fleet safety monitoring for custom driving violations, including speeding, harsh braking, and harsh cornering.

Fleet dash cams record high-definition video, which seamlessly integrates into the MyGeotab open fleet telematics platform:

• High-definition video gives you a clear view of events in the case of collisions or insurance disputes.
• Promote safe driving by replaying video clips of dangerous situations in driver coaching and training sessions.
• 360-degree view of trips and driver behavior helps you minimize risk by capturing mobile phone use, smoking, driving too close, or driver fatigue.
• In-vehicle driver coaching provides immediate feedback to drivers right in the vehicle with a buzzer alert or GO TALK spoken instructions.
• Video recording devices and monitors can alert drivers of hazardous conditions.

Through the Geotab Marketplace, you benefit from access to a wealth of fleet safety solutions that all seamlessly integrate with the other Geotab solutions, including:

• Gamification programs to encourage friendly competition by motivating your drivers to practice safe driving behavior.
• Advanced collision avoidance systems (ADAS) to help your drivers recognize and avoid the risk of collision before it happens.
• AI-powered fleet safety management software to predict and prevent high-risk events.

Any business that operates a fleet of vehicles will benefit from implementing fleet safety solutions to make their fleet safer. Not only will a safer fleet reduce operational costs, but it can make your employees safer, reduce at-fault accidents, and improve driver retention rates. If you use dash cams as part of the solution, you can help avoid false insurance claims.

Fleet safety policies are standards, rules, and guidelines for drivers of company or institution-owned vehicles. They help regulate vehicle use during and outside of business hours. Fleet managers often share their fleet safety policies through handbooks, videos, posters, training curriculum, and onboarding documents.

Common policies within a fleet safety program include:

• Hours of operation compliance
• Corporate vehicle use outside of business hours
• Unsafe driving prevention
• Parking regulation adherence 
• Distracted driving avoidance
• Driving at safe distances

Fleet safety helps organizations be more productive, control insurance costs, and minimize vehicle downtime. When fleets include branded vehicles, it can help protect a company's reputation in its community and beyond. Most importantly, it helps safeguard the lives and well-being of a company's employees and other drivers they encounter on the road. 

Look for safety management solutions that allow quick, easy communication with your drivers, so you can continually improve safety for them and others on the road. 

Using the MyGeotab application, you can watch video tutorials in the training section or contact your supplier to ask questions. You can also find answers to your questions and communicate with other clients in the Geotab forum. Or, if you just have a quick question, you can get an answer through the online chat.