Part of Specsavers Corporate Eyecare’s annual road safety campaign, this year’s road show visited 2,000 employees at seven companies across the UK for Road Safety Week. The main element of the roadshow was vision screening, using a portable device, which allows the optician to check that an individual’s eyesight meets the legal requirements for driving.
This year’s participants included Amey, one of the UK’s leading public and regulated service providers.
Leánne Carvell, senior fleet and plant manager at Amey said: ‘As a company we manage and maintain over 55,000km of local and strategic roads and therefore take the health, safety and wellbeing of our employees who work on the network extremely seriously. We are delighted that Specsavers could attend one of our safety roadshows to help us further protect our employees and ensure the safety of the travelling public.’
Other organisations taking part comprised:
- The Driving Instructors Association, for a professional development day with 150 attendees at the Motor Heritage Centre in Gaydon, Warwickshire
- The Licence Bureau, which performs driver licence checks against current DVLA and DVLNI records
- Allianz Insurance in Guildford for a wellbeing event
- South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust in Bristol
- Computacenter, for their road safety day for 1,500 employees
- South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust in Swindon.
