BSM offers small-to-medium sized businesses a range of driving courses for employees who drive as part of their work. If you manage your company's fleet of cars, no matter how big or small, you have a legal responsibility to do everything possible to ensure the safety of employees on the road. It's part of your Duty of Care.

Of course, because you probably know everybody you work with personally your legal obligations might not be seen as important as the thought of them having an incident. But aside from the personal upset of such an incident, sorting through the legal and financial ramifications of such an event can put a dangerous strain on your day-to-day business.

To fully meet your Duty of Care and Compliance responsibilities our comprehensive TVP course, which includes eco training, is designed to coach your drivers in a range of techniques to help them become better safer drivers, reduce fuel consumption, wear and tear costs and CO₂ emissions. So you can help save the planet as well as money.

The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 means that people who manage the company cars can be personally liable for accidents caused by their drivers. For medium to large businesses this can be particularly worrying. Quite simply, the more cars you have on the road, the higher the chance of one of your drivers causing an accident. It's up to the Fleet Manager, as part of their Duty of Care, to ensure company car drivers are as well trained to use the roads as possible.

As well as helping to protect your drivers and other road users, we can also help you to substantially reduce the costs of running a fleet of cars. Minimising fuel consumption, wear & tear and claim risk all make a significant savings possible for a medium-to-large car pool. And because better driving means greener driving, you'll be helping to achieve your Corporate and Social Responsibility targets too.

The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 has huge implications for the public sector. And, according to some, it's falling behind the private sector in terms of living up to Duty of Care. This is particularly marked when it comes to grey fleets - workers who drive their own cars as part of their work. Because of this, Graham Feest of the Association of Industrial Road Safety Officers (AIRSO) thinks "the first organisation to be prosecuted under the new Corporate Manslaughter Act will be a statutory body".

We offer TVP to help you manage the risk of employees on the road, whether they're in their own car or a company vehicle. By simply putting them through such a programme, you're reducing your exposure to prosecution as well as lessening the chance of an accident happening in the first place.

TVP also seeks to inform experienced drivers of the advantages of more economical driving techniques. As well as lowering fuel and maintenance costs, it also benefits the environment and can contribute to any environmental targets your department might have to accomplish.