But each year the road continues to kill about 600 employees

For the first time, in France, the number of car accident deaths went below the 5,000. But, each year, the road continues to kill about 600 employees. 52 of fatal accidents at work are road accidents; which means that employees are more victims of road hazards related to machinery, tools or products. Given this situation, the public authorities encourage prevention in companies.

Thursday, June 1, the first trophies "Company and road safety" have been distributed by Dominique Perben, Minister of transport, equipment, tourism and the sea, in a ceremony under the auspices of the Directorate of security and road traffic, of the National Fund for sickness insurance of employees (CNAMTS) and the Association for the promotion and monitoring of road safety in business (PSRES).

"We have received 89 applications for small and large companies." "After the screening of 20 to between them, with the quality of their policy of prevention, we have award seven", explained Sandro Mantovani, President of the association can-SPORES. Cofiroute won first prize for the quality of its policy of prevention of accidents as well as its innovative experiments. Ex-adquo, Sita Mos (Suez Group) and the association Adapei was awarded the second prize. Axalto took the third trophy. Lastly, the special actions "fleets" and "employees" were rewarded the carrier Munster (850 people), Pechiney Aviatube and Scam (80 employees).

Understand the driver

Cofiroute, which totals 792 vehicles (including 142 function cars, light commercial vehicles and 90 heavy weight 297) and where at least 50 of the employees conduct their professional duties, the policy of prevention is bearing fruit. "At end of 2005, we found a 28 decrease in our number of accidents over three years," said Bernadette Moreau, Director quality, safety, environment in Cofiroute. The implementation of preventive measures, the Group was, in reality, 2001. "We did not have a significant rate of loss experience, but we have been sensitive to the speech of our brokers and insurers, AXA and the Group Verspieren.". "Our actions of prevention have been paying since our auto insurance premiums dropped by 20 ", says Bernadette Moreau.

The recipe Indicators, the actions of prevention and awareness of employees and a fine analysis accidents. The Munster carrier, for example, issued two weeks of training per year to its drivers. We get good results through the pooling of efforts with the manufacturers of trucks and the use of interactive methods proposed by can-SPORES", says Jean Munster, President and CEO of the eponymous company. Whereas five years ago, the company had fixed its rate of loss experience to 1 of the total of the movement of trucks, it fell to 0.8 to 0.5 today. "We are now building on 0.3 ", warns Jean Munster. "More than 90 of accidents are preventable," said Bernadette Moreau that rested its action on a pedagogical approach, because "it is important to understand the State of mind of a driver at the time of an accident but also previously." Was well prepared for this trip He left early enough to be on time without risk

Road safety prevention messages need to be understandable by all, varied and consistent. "If we talk about alcohol at the wheel, it will not serve in a collective meal through training, for example more than a glass of alcohol per person", insists on in Cofiroute.

Amplify messages safe campaigns is also paying (Cofiroute has established a partnership with the League against road violence) just as involved in innovative experiments. "We opted for the establishment of conduct recorders to better analyse the circumstances of an accident, explains Bernadette Moreau." After a few apprehensions arising from the fear of being at fault, we found in our 20 volunteers more accountability, more mollified conduct and a last alert on errors.

But to be unifying, projects must mobilize all levels of the company, of the President to the receiver of the toll from the patrol. Each year, Cofiroute, a security challenge is proposed to the various entities of the Group and recorded the less accidents and cost the least expensive is rewarded. For his part, Jean Munster, former doctor converted as a pattern of SMEs ("I was road driver to pay my medical studies", justifies), is personally responsible for preventing alcohol and narcotics and the management processes of sleep and nutritional quality of the food of its road. And in the end, Munster distributes savings on loss experience, accidents, risk and other disputes as a bonus of 1,000-1,500 euros per person.