Understanding the importance of ensuring your employees have a valid driving licence is crucial for any business. Here are some steps you can take to check your employees’ driving licences:
- Requesting Documentation: Asking your employees to provide a copy of their driving licence is no longer adequate to ensure their driver’s licence is up-to-date and valid for the type of vehicle they will be driving, so as a business you should consider using the Safe2Drive employee driving licence checking solution to be compliant.
- Use Online Driving Licence Checking Service: Many businesses across the UK now utilise the Safe2Drive system where they can verify the status of their employees driver licences. For example, your employees could be geographically dispersed throughout the UK, so at Safe2Drive we make it extremely simple for employers to check the validity of an employee’s driving licence anywhere in the UK, no need to return to the office for checks or sharing codes or personal information over the phone.
- Third-Party Service: By using Safe2Drive’s driving licence checking service, you have the most advanced system in the market with the best data security standards. It provides you the ability to check that you have the correct employees driving the correct vehicle for your business. The Safe2Drive service will provide a comprehensive data set that will provide insights into your employees’ driving licence, providing your drivers with alerts and your business with actionable insights.
- Regular Checks: Implement a policy for regular checks, such as annually or biannually, quarterly, and even monthly for high risk drivers, this will ensure that all licence checks remain valid and up-to-date, reducing the road risk to your business.
- Record Keeping: The Safe2Drive system will ensure your employee driver licence records are securely maintained within the encrypted system. The system has a document upload area, which allows the administrator and the driver to store & share documents pertaining to the driver within the system in a secure manner. Safe2Drive automates all checks at the desired frequency, including everything from the date of check to the results, keeping your business compliant and also the data to review when required.
Driver Feedback: The Safe2Drive (“S2D Driving for Work”) App provides driver feedback of their own employee driver licence check results, along with the ability to monitor and manage their own personal information.