Road Risk Breakfast Briefing - DURHAM
Many businesses mistakenly think their duty of care is covered. It usually isn’t. Join this free breakfast seminar to uncover the hidden gaps in your work-related road risk management before it’s too late.
If your people drive for work – in vans, trucks, company cars, or even in their own vehicles – you carry a legal duty of care for every one of those journeys.
Most organisations discover the gaps in that duty at the worst possible moment. In three court cases we’ll look at, one firm was fined a total of £750,000, in another the business owners were jailed and, in a third, the employer was exonerated for having met their duty of care.
This free breakfast seminar will show you, in one morning, exactly where you stand and, more importantly, what to do about it.
Why it matters
Driving happens away from the workplace, in ordinary vehicles, doing something most of us do every day. It's easy to look past – until someone has to explain what your organisation did to manage the risk.
The realities of driving for work are stark:
The #1 Workplace Killer: Driving for work is the single largest cause of workplace fatality and serious injury in the UK. More people die here each year than from falls from height and industrial accidents combined.
Massive Public Exposure: Around 80% of fatalities and 60% of serious injuries involve members of the public. This routinely triggers sizable third-party claims, devastating reputational damage, and soaring insurance premiums.
The Hidden Operational Drain: Gaps in management lead to expensive uninsured damage repairs, costly end-of-lease vehicle penalties, and severe vehicle off-road (VOR) disruptions that halt client deliveries.
The Financial Payoff:
Good practice doesn't just manage risk – it drives business performance. Better managed drivers mean immediate reductions in fuel consumption, tyre wear, maintenance costs, and administrative time. These regional seminars are entirely about equipping your business to achieve these joint benefits.
Timings
08:00 Doors open. Coffee, pastries and networking
08:30 Welcome and introductions
08:40 Session 1: Your legal responsibilities as an employer
09:00 Session 2: Managing drink and drug impairment
09:25 Session 3: Driver health and wellbeing
09:50 Coffee break
10:15 Session 4: Driver behaviour
10:40 Session 5: Vehicle safety and record keeping
11:05 Wrap up and delegate handouts
11:15 Final networking
11:30 Close
You can be back at your desk by lunchtime!
Event Administration Notice: This regional seminar series is delivered by the Association for Road Risk Management (ARRM) and is co-funded and supported by our five expert partners: Driving for Better Business, Dtec International, D4Health, Lightfoot, and FleetCheck. By registering, your contact details will be processed securely by ARRM and shared with these event partners strictly for operational logistics such as managing venue seating limits, compiling arrival lists, printing attendance badges, and sending your immediate post-event delegate handouts.