Fleetworthy Solutions recently partnered with risk mitigation technology provider Predictive Safety, maker of the AlertMeter, which allow shift leaders and safety managers to assess the alertness levels of safety-sensitive employees at any point during their shift.
The companies said their new relationship soon will help “take risk and safety management for transportation businesses to a predictive, proactive level” by making the fleet safety solution, which has enjoyed success in pilot programs within the transportation industry, more widely available.
“The transportation industry has been limited in risk management of driver behavior with point-of-failure monitoring (driver is already nodding off) and lagging indicators,” said Jeff Sease, executive vice president and chief operating officer at Predictive Safety. “We are excited to partner with Fleetworthy to help both drivers and their companies get in front of fatigue issues and their own awareness of distress and distraction with something that has been working for over five years in other industries, such as mining and construction.
“By providing predictive visibility through a 60-second test that requires no special hardware, our partnership with Fleetworthy provides us with the scale to optimize development in an area where we are already seeing encouraging early results.”
Fleetworthy said managing fleet operations’ risk and drivers’ overall regulatory safety and compliance has long been its primary focus. Overtime, the company has grown internally and expanded external networks of partners and integrations to collect and visualize many aspects of holistic fleet safety and DOT compliance KPIs. This alliance integrates forecasting risk-management issues, safety-oriented incidents, and red flags for operating in compliance with regulatory mandates.
The AlertMeter now is available to Fleetworthy’s network of customers.
“Partnering with technology businesses is something we do often. Many times, it is because we are looking to help our customers get more data available to them. Sometimes it is so we can offer a more robust solution. In this case, we saw the potential risk mitigation benefit for safety directors and fleet owners,” said Michael Precia, CEO of Fleetworthy Solutions. “Predictive Safety’s AlertMeter solution being used as a safety control mechanism can help keep drivers and the motoring public safer before something happens on the road. Introducing this type of tool to the market is a win for the industry from a safety improvement stance.
“We look forward to helping as many fleets as we can enhance their safety and lower their risk.”