A Training Course in Managing and Reducing Road Transport Risks
1Summary
More than a million people lose their lives on the world's roads every year, and tens of millions more are injured — a toll that keeps climbing according to World Health Organisation research. Road transport is one of the riskiest links in any supply chain, yet many organisations still treat it as an afterthought rather than a managed risk.
This training course from the Arab British Fellowship Training Academy gives fleet operators, drivers' supervisors and risk teams a practical framework for identifying, measuring and reducing the risks tied to road transport. Beyond a single set of general guidelines, the course works through several linked areas so participants build a rounded picture of risk across their operations.
At its core, the course treats risk management as an ongoing cycle: spotting hazards, measuring their likely impact, and building strategies to transfer, prevent, reduce or absorb the consequences — with the goal of keeping every risk within an acceptable, well-understood range.
2Objectives and target group
Who Should Attend
- Senior managers responsible for transport operations and fleet resources.
- Newly appointed supervisors and managers moving into the transport function.
- Graduates and anyone building a career in road transport or logistics.
Course Objectives
- Read the nature of road transport risk and how people actually respond to it under pressure.
- Identify and measure the transport risks specific to the participant's own organisation.
- Run risk assessments on transport operations and choose the right tools to manage what they find.
- Investigate traffic accidents, trace their causes, and turn historical data into a working risk strategy.
- Apply proven practices in driver and fleet management, and judge how vehicle specifications affect accident and injury rates.
- Handle the storage and movement of hazardous goods and materials-handling equipment safely, and put together a health and safety reference for road transport operations.
3Course Content
Module 1: Why Road Transport Risk Deserves Board-Level Attention
- Current trends in organising and managing transport operations.
- The economic cost of traffic accidents to organisations and communities.
- Positioning road safety as a core part of operational strategy, not an afterthought.
Module 2: Building a Safety and Risk Management System
- Foundations of safety and risk management for transport fleets.
- Roles and mechanisms of official bodies responsible for traffic safety enforcement.
- Linking internal safety policy to external regulatory requirements.
Module 3: Assessing and Investigating Risk on the Road
- Core skills for carrying out a transport risk assessment.
- Techniques for investigating accidents and identifying root causes.
- Turning findings and historical data into practical risk indicators.
Module 4: Vehicles, Insurance and Traffic Engineering
- Insuring vehicles and transport equipment appropriately.
- Traffic engineering principles and criteria for identifying hazardous locations.
- General oversight of vehicles and fleet maintenance management.
Module 5: Modern Logistics and Fleet Operations
- Contemporary approaches to logistics and transport operations.
- Managing day-to-day road transport activity efficiently.
- Coordinating fleet operations with broader logistics planning.
Module 6: Handling and Transporting Hazardous Goods Safely
- Global best practices for handling, storing and transporting materials.
- Special precautions for hazardous goods and equipment in transit.
- Reducing risk during loading, unloading and materials handling.
Module 7: From Plan to Practice: Building Your Risk Action Plan
- Preparing and presenting an individual risk management action plan.
- Workshop: applying the course's tools to real road transport risk scenarios.
- Turning the action plan into next steps back at the organisation.