City of London Case Study FORS Vince Dignam Business Improvement and Performance Manager City of London.

City of LondonCase Study FORS

Vince DignamBusiness Improvementand Performance Manager

City of London

Slide 1• I am Vince Dignam, Business

Improvement and Performance

Manager for the City of London.• The City are the Local Authority for

the square mile in the Financial centre

of London.• The City’s functions are very diverse

and reach outside of London as well,

covering Hampstead Heath, Heathrow,

Tilbury Port and many more areas.

Slide 2• The City’s fleet size is around 1200,

this is made up of 250 vehicles and

950 pieces of plant.• The fleet is broken up into service

areas such as The City police, Open

Spaces, Highways and Cleansing,

social services including Schools.• Most of the vehicle Maintenance is

carried out at the City workshops By

our contractors, there are some

satellite Sites.

Slide 3• The City have written a new Corporate

transport Policy with the Corporate

Manslaughter Act in Mind. This formed part

of the Fleet operators Recognition Scheme,

(FORS) assessment check• Procedures put in place since the policy

and FORS inspection were; More stringent

Licence checks, Mobile phone policy, Driver

checks and Health screening.• All drivers have had health checks and eye

tests.

Slide 4

• Improvements we have seen so far

since implementing the policy are;

Drivers not missing medicals, Driver

licences up to date, i.e. photo card,

LGV category, also other specialist

licence training renewals.• Working with Contractors to comply

with legislation and checks.• Driver training, awareness, Health

and Safety especially with Drivers

CPC.

Slide 5

• We are committed to Maintaining our

FORS Gold membership and training

drivers with the online programme.

We have also developed our

benchmarking profile and interfaced

our computer based systems with

FORS.• Improve grey fleet policy, and

Implement Corporate policy across

City departments.

Thanks for listening – any questions?