SCA is starting a unique initiative to reduce accidents involving timber trucks and to make timber transport safer. Some 600 drivers and fleet owners are now to receive training, as the company says in the press release received by Lesprom Network.
About 70 haulers, employing more than 500 drivers, assist SCA in its timber transportation. In recent years, SCA’s timber transportation vehicles have been involved in several serious accidents or near accidents, some of which were fatal.
“Nobody should be injured or die because we need to transport timber, it’s as simple as that. The accidents made us realize that we must take action and create greater awareness and knowledge about the risks of working in a timber logistics chain,” says Lars.
Under the name “Inte en till” (Not one more), SCA is starting a unique initiative to reduce accidents involving timber trucks and to make timber transport safer. Together with NTF, SCA is now launching a powerful training for all drivers and fleet owners.
The initiative will start by interviewing some drivers, fleet owners and transport managers at SCA so NTF can obtain a picture of SCA’s day-to-day transportation. All participants subsequently answer a survey about how they view safety and how they act. The training sessions will begin after this.
“NTF’s training officers will travel across the north of Sweden and meet drivers and fleet owners in smaller groups. We anticipate between 70 and 90 meetings in total by spring 2020. When the training sessions are completed, we will hold a second survey.”
The project will start in May of this year when SCA holds two meetings with haulers in Piteå and Sundsvall.
The Swedish National Society for Road Safety (NTF) is an independent organization formed in 1934 that works for the right for all people to safe and secure traffic.
