Transportation Safety Programs

Clients in the transportation industry and clients with larger fleets of vehicles, including private passenger vehicles, are exposed to the risk of catastrophic incidents that result in higher costs, bad publicity or cancellation of auto insurance coverages.

Horton Safety Consultants offers an extensive array of safety training services, encompassing both specialized and general safety training, with exclusive access granted to our valued clients for these exceptional services.

Safety Services

Horton’s Safety Consulting team offers a range of safety services designed specifically for employers.

Many of these clients are also exposed to inspection and enforcement of DOT regulations.

Trucking comes with many challenges. One of these challenges is maintaining an acceptable Compliance, Safety, and Accountability (CSA) score, which is recorded in the FMSCA’s Safety Measurement System (SMS). Not only do clients risk increased inspection frequency, but poor scores generally reflect increased costs and negatively impact marketability and customer relationships. Horton’s transportation safety consultants work with this data and provide a meaningful plan of action to reduce risk, maintain relationships, and ensure business continuity.

About Safety Training Programs

Horton Safety Consultants employ transportation safety professionals who possess the Certified Director of Safety (CDS) designation sponsored by the North American Transportation Management Institute.

Specialized transportation safety services include the development of written safety policies and procedures, driver training, DOT compliance assistance, assistance in selecting and deploying telematics and camera systems, distracted driving programs, and accident review boards. Telematics and cameras are great, but without a strategy in place to deal with the data collected, they aren’t worth the investment.

Our consultants perform mock DOT audits to let clients know their areas of vulnerability and assist clients in developing strategies to improve poor SMS scores. Because our consultants are cross-trained in both OSHA and DOT, potential gaps in compliance are eliminated through the turnkey delivery of services.

A comprehensive safety program and risk assessments gather the information necessary to establish the quality and effectiveness of an organizations’ safety and risk management programs.

Our proprietary SAFE Assessment evaluates 10 critical elements of a client’s safety and risk management program; lagging indicators, hiring practices, accident investigation and injury management comprehensive safety program and risk assessments gather the information necessary to establish the quality and effectiveness of an organizations’ safety and risk management programs. Our proprietary SAFE Assessment evaluates 10 critical elements of a client’s safety and risk management program; lagging indicators, hiring practices, accident investigation, and injury management programs, leading indicators, management programs, written programs, training programs, safety observation and audit programs, work area safety practices, and transportation-related safety programs.

The SAFE assessment provides the client with a roadmap for improvement while recognizing the strengths in their current program and practices. This valuable tool can also be used in the marketing of a client’s commercial insurance program by providing underwriters with the extensive and valuable information they need to price the insurance programs, leading indicators, management programs, written programs, training programs, safety observation and audit programs, work area safety practices, and transportation-related safety programs.

The SAFE assessment provides the client with a roadmap for improvement while recognizing the strengths in their current program and practices. This valuable tool can also be used in the marketing of a client’s commercial insurance program by providing underwriters with the extensive and valuable information they need to price the insurance.

Resources

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