Plan and manage trips
October 1, 2025
This month’s road safety goal is to reduce driving-related risks through proactive trip planning and journey management, including finding ways to eliminate unnecessary driving by employees. Choose one or more of the following activities to help you reach that goal, using the recommended resources.
Basic
- Learn the basics of journey management and how to apply trip planning in your workplace: WorkSafeBC Driving for Work: The Journey Management Process Video
- Have drivers use our easy TripCheck online tool to help prepare for and complete trips with less exposure to common driving hazards. It takes only a few minutes: TripCheck
- Have drivers take a few minutes to complete a trip plan before they set out: Basic Trip Plan Form
Better
- Put journey management to work in your organization with a step-by-step guide that includes a check-in process: Journey Management and Trip Planning Tool Kit
- Develop or enhance your policy for when driving is necessary and how to do it safely: Journey Management Policy Template
- Have drivers watch our one-hour webinar on safe intersection driving, which also explains how ICBC’s crash maps can help you build safer trip plans: At the Crossroads: How to Travel Through Intersections Safely Webinar
Best
- Use risk rating to elevate your trip planning process and further reduce risks: Risk-Rated Trip Plan Form
- Complete our online course on journey management and trip planning: Using Journey Management To Reduce Driving Risks Online Course
- Have the management team work with drivers and supervisors to find ways to avoid unnecessary driving. Set goals such as reducing driving by a specific percentage. Setting SMART goals
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