Health and Safety
FleetPartners New Zealand are committed to doing everything reasonably practicable to ensure a safe and healthy workplace for all employees, contractors, customers and other stakeholders.
By ensuring our policies and processes are constantly being reviewed and where applicable, updated, FleetPartners can be confident we are doing all we can to meet our regulatory and moral obligations.
Company motor vehicles are an extended place of work
We encourage our customers to be mindful that vehicles are considered workplaces for those employees who drive as part of their work duties.
We urge customers to take all practicable steps to ensure their employees are safe from harm while they are working. These applicable steps can include having processes for ensuring every vehicle used for work purposes is roadworthy and warranted, adequately and appropriately insured, and loaded and used only within its specified capability.
Company car policies
We recommend that our customers have a robust Company Vehicle Policy and consider including Health and Safety policies within Company Vehicle Policy.
Items to be considered could include:
- Requirements to observe road safety code;
- Health and Safety obligations on drivers including driver fatigue, speed control, drink and drug driving, use of safety belts, dealing with distractions, taking breaks, use of mobile phones, reporting accidents and incidents;
- Any checks you might need to conduct prior to allocating a vehicle (e.g. licence, criminal convictions);
- Any disciplinary procedures that may be triggered as a result of breaching the Company Vehicle Policy.
Non-Health and Safety related topics you may want to consider may be:
- Guidelines on how the company uses its vehicles;
- Outline of how and when drivers are entitled to use the company vehicles;
- Allocation and replacement of vehicles;
- Insurance and maintenance costs, cost of damages in case of incidents/accidents;
- Parking costs, fines and use of fuel cards.
Vehicle maintenance
Use our team to ensure vehicles are regularly checked including WOFs, servicing as well as visual safety checks by employees. As part of the Work Health and Safety regulation, we have created a supplier/partner program that ensures all work undertaken on FleetPartners vehicles are are carried out in line with manufacturer recommendations and safety requirements.
Driver training
Build higher-level driving skills to minimise crash risk. FleetCoach online training, delivers a shift in driving culture by benchmarking the performance of drivers on a regular basis across similar drivers throughout NZ and provides businesses with a robust compliance and risk process.
Questions
For specific questions related to Health and Safety obligations or policies in your business you should seek legal advice.
Your Account Manager at Fleet Partners is not equipped to provide further advice to what is already covered on this page.
For general enquiries you are welcome to contact your FleetPartners Account Manager, or one of FleetPartners NZ Senior Managers.
