COMPANY PRESENTATION

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• COMPANY PRESENTATION

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Introduction

• Vedrova
• Is The Belgian link with
• Eastern Europe
• Was founded in 1996 by Walter Drossaert Reiner
  Gagelmann

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Introduction

• Vedrova
• Takes care of the transport, forwarding
  logistics from and to Central- and Eastern Europe
• Has a direct link with local hauliers in most of
  the Eastern European countries (recently also to
  Turkey Iran)

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Introduction

• Vedrova
• Offers to transport
• ?regular goods
• ?ADR-goods
• ?groupage of goods
• ?expresse delivery
• ?specialised transport
• ?bulk transport
• ?tank lorries

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Introduction

• Vedrova
• Is situated since 2001 in Herentals, has 2500m²
  offices warehouses and 15000m² guarded parking
  place
• Is concerned in Safety, Environment and Quality

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Safety

• Al drivers have had the necessary training and
  education with
• ?Good Driving Practise
• ?Behaviour Based Safety

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Environmont

• Minimize the driving kilometres
• Ecological engines in the trucks

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Quality

• Vedrova has since 2001 the ISO certificat NBN EN
  ISO 9001 2000
• Is working on receiving SQAS

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Future SQAS?

• Safety and Quality Assessment System.
• Tool to assess the quality, safety and
  environmental management systems of logistics
  service providers.

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SQAS

• Researche by independent inspectors.
• No Certificat.

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SQAS

• BENEFITS
• SQAS contributes to continuous improvement
• A systematic approach helps logistics service
  providers to concentrate their efforts on issues
  requiring attention.

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SQAS

• 2 documents
• Guidelines for SQAS road transport
• General information
• Detailed information for the inspector and for
  the company thats been investigated.
• The SQAS road transport questionnaire
• English version

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SQAS

• Questionnaire
• Three categories of questions
• "M" questions (basic safety requirements that
  should be met by all logistics service providers)
• "I" questions covering items that the chemical
  industry normally requires from its logistics
  service providers
• D" questions covering items where further
  improvement can be made.

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SQAS

• Survey of the questionnaire
• 1. Management
• 2. Safety, Health and environment
• 3. Transport
• 4. Planning and operations
• 5. Security
• 6. Establishment inspection

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BBS

• What?
• Why?
• Evolution
• How to use?

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BBS

• What?
• BBS Behaviour Based Safety
• Why?
• To increase roadsafety
• Less accidents, casualties etc.
• Supports the supply chain

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BBS

• 1980
• Research starts
• Companies improve their equipment
• Attention for educationprogrammes
• This led to a reduction of accidents!

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BBS

• 1995
• Introduction of quality assessment system
• SQAS
• Accidents continued decreasing!

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BBS

• Now
• Stabilisation or even a small increase in the
  number of accidents.
• Higher transport volumes, behaviour changes, more
  pressure, etc.
• Introduction of BBS!

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How to use

• A Behaviour based safety process
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• Review incident data for a period of time.
• Involve employees in the process and group the
  incidents into categorie
• 2.
• Select top categories for observations
• for example Motor Vehicle Accidents may be top
  priority

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BBS

• 3.
• Focus on incident types within categories
• Rear and collisions may be the first in the Motor
  Vehicles accidents.
• 4.
• Establish a work-group to identify the major
  causes of these incident types, e.g rear and
  collisons

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BBS

• 5.
• As the programme progresses consider other
  categories including loading and un-loading and
  then the causes of these incidents.
• 6.
• Identify the behaviours which cause the
  accidents, or which you can prevent them

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BBS

• 7.
• Employees must be involved in the process and
  asked to act as observers
• They report and record behaviour through
  observations
• 8.
• Collect results and report to the relevant
  employees

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BBS

• 9.
• Report and measure Monthly Safety Performance
  showing impact of safety awareness activities
• 10.
• Set realistic goals for a reduction of the
  various incident types

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NBN EN ISO 90012000

• The quality Management System is applicable to
  all transport, forwarding and logistic
  services.Main competence transport to and from
  Central- and Eastern Europe

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Good driving practice

• What?
• Why?
• Who?

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What is good driving practice?

• Good driving practice begins with good driving
  theory
• The Driving Theory Test tests candidates general
  knowledge of road safety and driving regulations
• The test ensures that learner drivers have the
  knowledge and understanding they need to be able
  to drive safely

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What is good driving practice?

• You must have skills in the handling of your
  vehicle
• Be prepared to make allowances for the behaviour
  of others
• Have a right attitude and approach to your
  driving
• Then you are an example to other drivers

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Why good driving practice?

• For Drivers
• As the driver of a large goods vehicle you have a
  special responsibility
• For Vedrova
• Its important to invest in road safety
• Vedrova works with qualified transporters
• This to ensure a quality transport to their
  customers

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Who does Vedrova work with?

• Vedrova works with eastern European transporters
• Vedrova is also a part of the TPH group
• TPH specialised in storing goods, transhipment,
  parking and logistics
• Vanpotrans transport between Belgium an Poland

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Who does Vedrova work with?

• Vandijck the ideal partner for transport to
  western Europe, eastern Europe and south of
  Europe.
• Vedrova handles logistics for eastern and middle
  Europe
• Euro express transport in whole