Business learns about ‘meeting without moving’

Television personality and businessman Noel Edmonds joined RoSPA in a groundbreaking bid to reduce accidents among people driving for work.

More than 130 fleet and safety professionals met in Hertfordshire to experience how video conferencing can save the need for thousands of miles of driving. Noel Edmonds spoke to the RoSPA seminar at the Watford Hilton from his home in Devon on Wednesday using a video link, and then answered questions from the audience.

"Noel demonstrated just how effective good-quality video conferencing can be in cutting risk by reducing the need for unnecessary road journeys," said Roger Bibbings, RoSPA occupational safety adviser.

"He explained how video conferencing not only saves time and money, but also can make a major contribution to employee welfare, including reducing fatigue and stress and improving work/life balance."

Noel has launched a new video conferencing venture, face2face, a nationwide network of over 300 video meeting rooms. RoSPA is working with face2face to promote the concept of Meeting Without Moving in an effort to reduce the number of work-related road accidents.

The Focusing on Performance event in Watford built on RoSPA's previous seminars on managing occupational road risk (MORR). Delegates learned about other RoSPA innovations, including how to assess drivers online and SenseAbility, a virtual reality test for drivers.

They were briefed on how to bring MORR into mainstream health and safety management, as for the majority of people the most dangerous thing they do at work is to drive.

For more information on MORR, visit www.rospa.com and www.rospa.com/drivertraining