Road safety for employees who drive at work : What can the non-professionals learn from the professionals?

Half of the traffic fatalities in Norway are work-related: 38% involve drivers at work, while 11% involve people driving to/from work. Working with road safety management and road safety culture can result in up to a 60% reduction in accident risk. The extent to which organizations with drivers at work have such measures varies, however, greatly. We compare this for professional drivers; bus drivers and truck drivers, and employees who drive at work but are not professional drivers "work drivers"). Organizations with work drivers have a lower focus on road safety and have implemented far fewer measures aimed at road safety, compared to organizations with professional drivers. For some measures, we find that the prevalence is almost nine times higher among professional drivers. Interview data suggest that the low focus on road safety in organizations with work drivers is due to transport being secondary for work drivers. We also find a potential for more measures among the professional drivers. Example calculations indicate that up to 26 fatal accidents a year (hypothetically) could have been avoided with the introduction of certain measures among drivers at work in general. This indicates the maximum potential.