CEMEX UK wins CILT award

CEMEX UK has won a prestigious Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) award for its outstanding efforts in helping to protect vulnerable road users.

The award is recognition for the considerable work that CEMEX has done to improve the safety of vulnerable road users since 2004.

Over 500 of the UK’s leading professionals in transport, logistics and transport attended the CILT awards ceremony at the Lancaster London Hotel. The awards look to recognise outstanding achievement and to encourage the highest standards and a professional approach to the practice of logistics and transport.

The judges commented: “CEMEX’s ambition is to become a beacon and really make a difference in helping to make Britain’s roads safer for vulnerable road users. Extensive investment and stakeholder engagement has returned impressive results on all these initiatives.”

The initiatives pioneered by the Company have encompassed all aspects of the transport business including driver training, additional safety features on their large goods vehicles (LGVs) and a comprehensive education programme working with cyclists to highlight the dangers about LGVs.

A key aspect of CEMEX’s have also been collaborating with leading industry bodies to help create a national standard of safety features on vehicles and raise awareness of the issues involved.

Dave Hart, Director CEMEX Logistics, commented: “We have to share the limited road space and increasingly have an appreciation and respect for everyone’s needs on the roads. As a business we need to get building materials to construction sites to build homes, roads, hospitals etc and cyclists and pedestrians need to get to work and go about their business. A large lorry and a cyclist do not make a harmonious mix!

“We are delighted to have won this award and receive recognition of the work that we have done.”

CEMEX vehicles have had innovative safety features added such as extra mirrors, proximity sensors and cameras have been added where appropriate.

CEMEX became the first company in the UK to operate and trial the new Econic tipper, designed by Mercedes-Benz to give the driver up to 90% extra visibility, while still being able to carry 20 tonnes of aggregates.

The Company have also held ‘Exchanging Places’ events that encourage cyclists to get into a cab of one of CEMEX’s vehicles to learn more about potential blind spots around an LGV. Since it’s inception, the programme has engaged 7,000 cyclists, with over 40 events being held throughout the country.

Equally important to the CEMEX’s commitment to safety is continual driver training and engagement. Every driver receives a minimum of three training sessions per year.

All 92 drivers in the London Readymix business have participated in the Safe Urban Driving course and this programme is being rolled out nationally amongst the Logistics drivers, who drive cement tankers and aggregate tippers, as part of their driver CPC programme.

Cemex also run the Safe Urban Driving course, which equips drivers with the knowledge, skills and defensive driving techniques to deal with the difficulties of driving in a busy urban environment. The course also allows driver to get on cycles to experience the road from the cyclists point of view.

All 92 drivers in the London Readymix business have participated in the Safe Urban Driving course, with the programme due to be rolled out nationally amongst the Logistics drivers, who drive cement tankers and aggregate tippers as part of their driver CPC programme.

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