Plan and manage trips
October 1, 2024
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 practices in your workplace: Journey Management and Trip Planning Tool Kit
- Show WorkSafeBC’s 3-minute video on trip planning and journey management at a safety meeting. Discuss its points with your drivers: WorkSafeBC Driving for Work: The Journey Management Process Video
- Use our easy TripCheck online tool to plan trips in as little as 3 minutes: TripCheck
Better
- Develop or enhance your policy for when driving is necessary and how to do it safely: Journey Management Policy Template
- Have drivers watch our 1-hour webinar on safe intersection driving. Use what you learn to build safer trip plans: At the Crossroads: How to Travel Through Intersections Safely Webinar
- Use ICBC crash maps to review 3 routes your employees drive frequently. Identify alternatives to those routes if they include intersections with a lot of crashes: ICBC interactive crash maps
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. From the list in Lesson 4 Topic 2, identify 2 components you’ll focus on in the coming year: Building an Effective Journey Management Process Online Course
- Have the management team work with drivers and supervisors to find ways to avoid unnecessary driving. Take advantage of alternatives to reduce how much driving your employees do: Using journey management
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