Morrison Water Services achieves silver accreditation in the Fleet Operators Recognition Scheme
For the Thames Water Smart Metering contract, a fleet of about 200 vehicles and personnel, Morrison Water Services has declared that it has met the increased safety, environmental, and fleet compliance standards.
In order to transform its metering infrastructure by installing mandatory water metres for its consumers, Thames Water has tasked the team with completing an ambitious programme of street-by-street metre installations over the past seven years. Since 2016, Morrison Water Services has finished more than 980,000 instals.
Customers may track their water usage automatically with smart water metres. Importantly, they make it possible for Thames Water to locate leaks faster and fix them.
Driver behaviour and road safety are of the utmost significance because the Smart Metering contract fleet travels about 500,000 miles per month in the Greater London area alone.
A voluntary accreditation scheme for fleet operators, FORS, aims to improve standards within fleet operations and demonstrate which operators are achieving exemplary levels of best practice in safety, efficiency and environmental protection.
David Tann, Morrison Water Services’ Contract Director for Thames Water, said:
“Over the last few years, industry standards within fleet operations have evolved to support vehicles, drivers, managers and our operations.
“Achieving the high safety standards required to achieve FORS recognition demonstrates to our people and clients that we are continuously raising standards and are committed to ensuring safety at all times.
“Accreditation was achieved while maintaining all business objectives, targets and individual customer appointments, the team of managers and operatives on the contract deserve a big round of applause. Only a few businesses can demonstrate this level of compliance and training, I’m happy to say we are part of the best.
“Our client is delighted with our safety, environmental and fleet compliance.”
Achieving Silver accreditation has been a long-term commitment for the contract team which had to provide evidence about Morrison Water Services’ commitment to managing road risk, professional development for their drivers and managers, noise pollution, emission, vehicle safety and vehicle compliance.
A small team under the direction of Eugene Yirenkyi, Transport and Plant Manager for the contract, provided training to over 220 driver operatives and more than 20 managers as part of the rigorous accreditation procedure.
Live scenario training, virtual reality training, and classroom instruction were all combined in the programme.
Morrison water services operatives and managers have all successfully completed a comprehensive safety training programme.
The accreditation audit process required evidence of the policies in place and the steps being taken to reduce vehicle emissions and improve air quality, road risk initiatives and best-in-fleet telematics to support safe driver behaviours.
The contract team is already working to achieve FORS Gold standard accreditation next year, demonstrating their ongoing commitment to maintaining the highest standards of safety for our operatives, clients and their customers, and members of the public. The accreditation is yearly, and this year’s contract team is already working to achieve it.
Source: Morrison Water Services
