Accident prevention policy
Managing road risk
Road risk concerns all VINCI employees who drive any of the 30,000 company vehicles and 5,000 site machines, as well as the 600 million customers who use our roads, motorways, car parks and other VINCI structures worldwide. In order to reduce road accidents, our companies have devised various awareness programmes. The VigirouteR accident prevention plan, initially launched at Eurovia, has gradually been extended to all business lines. We continued the collaboration with Renault, following signature of a partnership agreement in 2006, by developing training kits and organising visits to discuss techniques for arranging and securing utility vehicle loads, and the safe driving of these vehicles.
ASF and Cofiroute signed a national charter with DSCR (the French government’s road safety and traffic department), the French Ministry for the Ecology, Infrastructure and Sustainable Development, and the national health insurance fund. Under this charter, the companies undertake to implement systematic training for employees using company vehicles and carrying out an analysis of driver behaviour of all employees using light vehicles or lorries. On 26 November 2007, ASF, Cofiroute and Escota signed the European Road Safety Charter. This document calls in particular for actions to raise safety awareness among lorry drivers.