Driving efficiently & safely has a significant number of additional benefits.

As with all training and development it comes down to the amount that your business will need to invest.

The true costs of road accidents to organisations are nearly always significantly higher than the resulting insurance claims. HSE research into workplace accidents suggests that, for every £1 recovered through insurance, between £8 and £36 may be lost via uninsured costs.

Many costs such as lost time in wages and salaries, lost orders and output, administrative costs, legal fees; and costs due to other kinds of business interruption may not be recoverable. Road accidents can also have a negative impact on staff morale and can damage the organisation's image in the outside world for example, when liveried vehicles are involved.

Major improvements in fleet safety performance can be achieved by companies simply investing in 'defensive' driver training for their staff. The benefit range available from driver training alone can be a reduction of between 30% to 70% in accidents attributable to human error. One organisation investing in Driver Training over a four year period was able to secure a reduction in its fleet vehicle accident frequency from 40 to 9 accidents per million miles.