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Romex is the easy way to effectively manage your mobile workforce. Using the latest BlackBerry or Windows Mobile smartphones with GPS technology, the server-based Romex solution delivers a comprehensive suite of real-time services, helping to best direct your team and achieve measurable savings on fuel and service charges.

 

The Romex solution will help your field team deliver higher customer service and support levels, by identifying your nearest resource to customer locations and sending alerts via email or SMS upon arrival at and departure from customer sites. This feature also ensures that you fulfil your duty of care obligations towards your staff.

 

Whether you run a fleet of couriers, a remote sales team or mobile service engineers, we can help identify the benefits of the Romex solution. To take advantage of our FREE 14 day try-before-buy trial, contact one of our consultants.

 

Features and benefits

• Google Map views display real-time precise locations of your mobile workforce.
• Identify resources nearest to customer locations.
• Customer site arrival/departure alerts.
• Monitor speeding by individual road limits.
• Easy-to-use one-click reporting for manager or dispatcher.
• Works with BlackBerry or Windows Mobile GPS smartphones.
• No additional hardware or installation costs, and no maintenance charges.
• Automatically generates on-site expenses, time sheet and mileage reports.
• Easy to use and set-up; no training required.

 

Duty of care and lone worker responsibilities

In the UK in particular legislation relating to the health and safety of employees and the Duty Of Care they are owed by employers whilst they are at work is becoming more and more onerous making compliance with legislation increasingly costly.

 

One aspect of compliance that is frequently overlooked concerns employees who drive on business. All too many organisations are unaware of the Health and Safety guidelines that apply to all business journeys regardless of whether the employee is a regular business driver or not and regardless of whether the vehicle they are driving is owned by the company or the employee themselves (i.e. a 'Grey Fleet' vehicle). These guidelines are shown in the Health and Safety Executive's 'Driving At Work' publication (INDG382) published in association with the Department of Transport.

 

Ignoring these guidelines exposes the organisation to prosecution under the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 in the event of a fatal accident involving either an employee or a member of the public. Penalties can be up to 10% of annual turnover. It also exposes employees, managers and Directors to prosecution as individuals with fines of up to £20,000 or two years imprisonment under the Health and Safety Offences Act 2009 in the event of any accident whether fatal or not.

 

The guidelines set out in INDG382 cover aspects such as routes, scheduling, speeding, long working hours or driving long distances (both leading to fatigue) and systems to monitor and assess risk and actual performance.

Solution

Romex, TeamFix provides organisations with a cost effective way to capture detailed records of all journeys made regardless of what vehicle an employee uses. It also provides analyses and exception reporting on excessive working hours, excessive driving hours (in total and per journey) and speeding.

For more information please visit www.romexworld.com or call to speak to one of our advisors.