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Fire service adopts Licence Check compliance platform
Date: Tuesday, February 21, 2023 | Author: Sean Keywood
Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service (MAWWFRS) has begun using the Davis compliance platform from Licence Check.
The service, which has 1,350 staff, has a fleet which includes LCVs alongside fire engines and company and pool cars.
Compliance is said to be a hugely important issue for the service, and when it needed to switch from its previous supplier last autumn it was able to take advantage of a new tender award by the Welsh Government Commercial Procurement team for automated fleet compliance services, which had been awarded to Licence Check as sole provider in late 2022.
As a result, any public authority in Wales, including the NHS, local authorities, housing associations, and blue light services, can now take advantage of the framework agreement and select Licence Check for fully automated fleet compliance services including licence checking.
In a very short space of time, all MAWWFRS staff are said to have been migrated to the Davis platform, signing electronic mandates to allow fully automated licence checking via the DVLA Access to Driver Data service.
MAWWFRS health and safety and welfare officer Sarah Davies said: “Our account manager, Joe Meakin, and the IT support team have been extremely useful; they have been especially quick in responding to my queries and very helpful throughout the whole set up process.
“Via Davis and the e-permission method, we were able to email every staff member with a link to the driving licence check mandate which they then could sign electronically and allowed a licence check to be carried out immediately.
“The fact that Davis is a real-time digital checking service is very important to us as it allows us to check and verify the status of our drivers’ licences in a matter of seconds. This is vital to us as we have so many operational staff who may be called out on urgent driving tasks 24 hours a day, seven days a week, across a huge area of Wales.
“So, it is very important that we know that those staff are entitled to drive the class of vehicle they have to drive as quickly as possible in what are often emergency situations.”
Licence Check managing director Keith Allen said: “Given the nature of MAWWFRS’s business which is rapid response 24/7 service with a high number of emergency calls including not just firefighting but road traffic accidents and flooding, occupational driving obviously poses one of the highest risks to the service, so it makes perfect sense to go down a fully automated compliance route.
“As a result, the service is seeing a number of real operational benefits through the use of Davis to automate its driving licence checking processes and manage its driving risk more effectively and efficiently.”
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