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The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) is celebrating winning another new large contract, after agreeing a deal with Fujitsu UK to develop a web application that will assess the company’s fleet drivers.

RoSPA Fleet Safety will be developing its current Driver Profiler application into a bespoke tool for Fujitsu, which will work with and alongside its existing learning management system.

Driver Profiler is RoSPA’s leading-edge online psychometric risk assessment tool, which measures the user’s attitudes towards driving, providing insights into the risk they pose and allowing managers and trainers to decide on appropriate training.

The tool takes into account demographic risk factors and the results of the user’s psychometric test to give them a risk rating, telling them which areas of their driving are high-risk and need improving.

Once integrated with Fujitsu’s current learning management system, through making it SCORM-compliant, the software will risk assess the company’s drivers before providing them with the appropriate e-learning training. This will mitigate their risk, and help the company to meet its health and safety objectives and best practice.

Frances Richardson, director of operations for RoSPA, said: “We are very excited by this new contract, as it is an innovation for RoSPA, enabling our already popular driver assessor software content to be used by a much more significant number of people.

“It is particularly good to be helping a world-class company like Fujitsu, which is so committed to responsible business operations, to make their drivers safer.”

Simon Head, head of health and safety at Fujitsu, said: “We are proud to form a partnership with RoSPA to further develop our Managing Occupational Road Risk and overall health and safety processes.

“Health and safety is a fundamental part of Fujitsu and its responsible business programme and we are continually looking to develop our best practice processes.”

Fujitsu has been named Responsible Business of the Year at Business in the Community’s 2015 Annual Responsible Business Gala in London. The award recognises Fujitsu’s role in effectively influencing others to collaborate and create the conditions for long-term sustainable change. The organisation was commended for embedding sustainability into its business strategy, displayed exceptional leadership and reach within and beyond its own sector to help build the wider movement of responsible business.

SCORM-compliant packages for Driver Profiler are available. Call 0121 248 2233 or email fleetsafety@rospa.com.

About RoSPA Fleet Safety

RoSPA has been involved in road safety for almost 100 years, since its inception in 1917. RoSPA Fleet Safety delivers interventions designed to reduce driver risk which in turn enables companies to manage their occupational road risk effectively. These interventions include a wide range of modern products from licence checking, driver profiling, e-learning, classroom and on-road driver training and fleet risk audits.

About Fujitsu UK & Ireland

Fujitsu UK & Ireland is a leading IT systems, services and products company employing 12,000 people with an annual revenue of £1.67 billion. Additionally, Fujitsu’s other operations in the UK bring its total employee numbers to more than 14,000 and its total revenues to £1.8billion. Its business is in enabling its customers to realise their objectives by exploiting information technology through its integrated product and service portfolio. This includes consulting, applications, systems integration, managed services and product for customers in the private and public sectors including retail, financial services, telecoms, government, defence and consumer sectors. For more information, please see http://uk.fujitsu.com