Refuse Collection Vehicle Safety Programme to Cut Red Tape : Cawleys First Waste & Recycling Firm to Sign Up to DVSA Earned Recognition Pilot Scheme
Luton, UK based waste management and recycling firm, Cawleys, is one of 31 companies taking part in the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) Earned Recognition pilot scheme, and is the only waste management company involved at this stage.
The company explained that Earned Recognition is a new way of recognising safe and responsible vehicle operators and when the pilot ends in Spring it will be launched to the market at the Commercial Vehicle Show in April.
Through a system of connected, real time monitoring, organisations with lorries, buses and coaches prove they meet driver and vehicle standards against Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
All the assessment and monitoring takes place on line, giving a dramatic reduction in the amount of time and paper work involved in maintaining and proving proper compliance, and building a much great degree of trust and cooperation between the DVSA and the haulier involved.
“Transportation efficiency and safety is central to a good waste management service. It makes complete sense to be part of this pilot scheme, as part of our business ethos. The scheme covers everything we do already but just makes the whole process so much more efficient and open. It can only be a positive thing for our industry” said Phil Gudgeon, Director of Waste Collection and Logistics at Cawleys.
“It was a very rigorous process to take part in the pilot, involving a 28 page document and onsite auditing, but again this is only a good thing for our industry as a whole and something I’m really proud Cawleys has spearheaded, even if it did take over my life for a while…” he continued.
Cawleys introduced new software, R2C, to centralise and connect up its systems to the DVSA which it sait will see it marked and measured every four weeks against the following KPIs:
100% safety rated defect rectifications
100% service inspections
95% MOT pass rate
4% tachograph infringements
“Being part of the earned recognition pilot scheme proves we are ultra compliant. Customers are, rightly, demanding every greater recycling transparency and we are delighted to offer that for every aspect of our service, including vehicle management” concluded Anna Cawley, Director of Customer Services
Cawleys, a third-generation family run business, also processes commercial food waste through anaerobic digestion, operates its own Material Recycling Facility (MRF) and most recently becoming a partner with bio-bean for recycling coffee waste.
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