Environmental guidance for your business in Northern Ireland & Scotland
Your business can benefit from using vehicles in a safer and more fuel-efficient way. This will limit your vehicle emissions and lower your transport costs by reducing your insurance premiums. See the page in this guide on the benefits of reducing your vehicle emissions.
Safer driving means fewer injuries and fatalities, less accident damage and wear and tear to vehicles, and less unproductive downtime for vehicle repair. You should manage the risks from using your vehicles and:
Driving for Better Business (DfBB) Advice on driving for work policies
Fleetsafe: Support in developing and implementing fleet safety programmes
You can use fuel more efficiently by:
Consider whether flexible working practices could reduce your use of vehicles. This could include:
Energy Saving Trust (Northern Ireland): Reducing the environmental impact of your fleet
Energy Saving Trust (Scotland): Making your fleet more sustainable
Training your employees to drive efficiently can reduce your fuel use and make your staff safer. For example, a one-day Efficient Driving course for van or heavy goods vehicle (HGV) drivers could help save up to £500 of fuel per vehicle per year, depending on mileage.
The Energy Saving Trust can help with driver education.
Energy Saving Trust (Northern Ireland): Fuel-efficient driving
Energy Saving Trust (Scotland): Fuel-efficient driving tips
Maintain commercial vehicles in good working order so that they work efficiently. You should:
Benefits of reducing your vehicle emissions
Groundwater in Northern Ireland, DAERA have produced a leaflet to raise awareness about this untapped resource
EU Exit, EU Exit useful information
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