BRSA: Follow Actavo’s lead

President of the Barbados Road Safety Association (BRSA) Sharmane Roland-Bowen is calling on local companies to follow the lead of Actavo.

“I admire this company’s commitment to promoting safe driving practices among its employees,” she expressed.

 

Actavo is a leading international strategic operations partner operating in over 100 locations. Its global workforce delivers Industrial Solutions, Network Solutions, In-Home Solutions, Hire & Sales Solutions, Event Solutions and Building Solutions to the world’s leading companies.

 

With a presence in Ireland, United Kingdom, United States and the Caribbean, Actavo is currently rolling out one of the largest fibre to the home networks in the world, among its key clients is Digicel.

 

Striving to deliver on its strategic goal of Zero Harm, the company’s Safe, Health, Environmental and Quality (SHEQ) teams ensure that everyone who works for and on behalf of them, goes home safe every day, including their clients and members of the public who interact with its operations.

 

Road safety is one of the many important areas Actavo impresses upon its employees, which is being reinforced during SHEQ week – 17th to 21st October.

 

“Actavo is one of those companies that takes responsibility and looks out for their employees who drive for work purposes. Policies and procedures are in place to protect their drivers. By protecting their drivers and ensuring that their drivers are competent, they are in turn protecting other road users that their drivers would come into contact with…It is a quality we would like to see embraced by other employers who have people who drive for work.”

 

Roland-Bowen was speaking to the Barbados Advocate at Actavo’s office at Manor Lodge Business Complex, Lodge Hill St Michael after being presented with 150 children Reflective Safety Vests.

 

Richard Scott, SHEQ Manager at Actavo (Barbados) commended the work of the Barbados Road Safety Association, which ties in perfectly with Actavo’s focus.

 

“The main focus which we had from last year into this year is one on driver safety. We are very fortunate to have an extremely good year. We launched a defensive driving programme for our employees. Within that programme we them launched a fleetmatic system which tracks our vehicles giving live feedback of them, that we can tailor our feedback to the employees.”

 

“We have had a decrease in road traffic collision rate of 75%, we also had a reduction in speeding breaches of 90%. This year we intend to focus again on the positive safety culture of driving and again want to focus on actually reducing the road traffic collision rate towards zero…,” he said.

 

With about 90 drivers employed, Scott stressed “If we do feel that a certain driver is not performing to maybe the standard which we require, one of the corrective actions is that they have to go back through the defensive driving programme to assure us that they are a good safe driver.”

 

In addition to the donation to the BRSA, Actavo has pledged its support to BRSA’s “Accident Free Friday” initiative on November 25th.