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Context
Murray (2001) at the Workplace Fleet Safety
Workshop, reported...
In the UK, most companies underestimate
(choose to ignore) the 'real costs' of their
crashes by at least half! In their sales pitch for
fleet driver training the British School of
Motoring says that hidden costs can be as much as
six to 53 times the obvious costs. More objective
data from the UK Health and Safety Executive
suggest that the below the water line 'iceberg' or
'ripple in the pool' costs can be eight to 36 times
greater than those visible 'above the water'.
Staysafe 36 suggests that the indirect
costs of fleet crashes - including personal injury,
medical/hospital, rehabilitation, absence from
work, workers compensation, downtime/lost
productivity and potential loss of custom - are
somewhere between four and twenty times the direct
costs.
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Reference
Murray, W. (2001) 'Reasons to do fleet
safety', Queensland Transport/CARRSQ Workplace
fleet safety workshop, Queensland University
of Technology, Brisbane.
Staysafe (1997) Staysafe 36: Drivers as
Workers, Vehicles as Workplaces: issues in fleet
management, Ninth report of the Joint
Standing Committee on Road Safety of the 51st
Parliament, Parliament of New South Wales,
9/51.
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