As an employer, you have a real responsibility to keep your staff safe, so that everyone who drives for work can get home safely at the end of the day. Driving is probably the most dangerous thing your employees do in their line of work, and it is estimated that a quarter of road deaths involve someone driving for work.*
The good news is that you have the power to make a real difference, with robust policies and procedures to manage road risk. This Road Safety Week, we're encouraging you to do everything you can within your sphere of influence to put safety first and ensure anyone you ask to drive for work is safe.
* Department for Transport (2026) RRCGB 2025: Risk behaviours and circumstances.
How to take part in Road Safety Week
Safe people on the move
Whether we walk, wheel, ride or drive, we all share our roads when we are on the move. Whoever we are, and however we travel, by using our roads safely we help to protect ourselves and each other.
Those with the potential to do the most harm must take the greatest responsibility for safeguarding people who are more vulnerable on roads than them.
This Road Safety Week, we're inviting you to learn how we can all be safe when we’re on the move. Every journey and every time.
Your Road Safety Week action pack includes:
- Toolkit for employers – ideas and guidance to help you and your staff to take part.
- Details of our free webinar – get practical, take-home tips that will help you ensure your drivers are as safe as possible on every journey.
- The Big Tea Brake – everything you need to make time for tea and raise money to support Brake's work.
- Memorial ideas – ways to remember loved ones and donate in their memory.
We'll be adding more resources and information to this page soon, and if you've signed up, you'll be the first to hear about any updates.
Toolkit for employers
The Toolkit for employers contains everything you'll need to take part in Road Safety Week. In it, you'll find:
- Information about Road Safety Week.
- Information about the Highway Code’s hierarchy of road users, and how this works in practice.
- Ways you can take part in Road Safety Week, from fundraising events to shouting out about it online.
- And much more.
Click the link below to view and download the toolkit.
Click here to download the toolkit for employers
Use this simple toolkit to help you take part in Road Safety Week and talk about why it is important
Attend our free Road Safety Week webinar
Sign up for our free Road Safety Week webinar and learn how you can make a difference.
Wednesday 18 November 2026, 10am-11:30am
In this free Road Safety Week webinar by Brake, get practical, take-home tips that will help you ensure your drivers are as safe as possible on every journey they make.
- Learn how the way we drive affects our risk of being in a crash and how the choices we make when we’re behind the wheel can make a big difference.
- Find out how modern vehicle technology can help you address risky driving behaviours.
- Explore the real risks associated with fatigue, impairment and driver distraction, and how you can create a culture that puts safety first and champions driver wellbeing.
Make time for tea and fundraise for Brake
This November, we’d love you to put the kettle on and join The Big Tea Brake. Whether you’re hosting online, in the office or out in your community, it’s the perfect excuse to gather for a cuppa, enjoy some sweet treats, and raise vital funds to support road crash victims and campaign for safer streets.
All money raised through The Big Tea Brake will help fund Brake’s campaign work and National Road Victim Service, which every year supports more than a thousand families affected by road death and injury.
We'll provide you with everything you need to get started with planning and hosting your event. Click here to find out more and get in touch with our friendly fundraising team at fundraise@brake.org.uk to get started!
Remember loved ones killed or injured in road crashes
Road Safety Week is a special time to host or attend a memorial event in memory of a loved one who has died in a road crash.
A memorial event can be as big or small as you choose. It could be a public event for others to join, or a private occasion for close family and friends.
You could hold a minute’s silence in memory of a colleague who has died, or gather over coffee and share photos and memories.
A short period of time for reflection at the beginning of a meeting is another great way to pay respects.
Donations in memory
If you are hosting a memorial event, please consider collecting donations to Brake in memory of your loved one. We can help you with donation buckets and collection envelopes, or help you set up an online fundraiser or tribute page.
Every year, Brake supports thousands of families affected by road death and serious, life-changing injury. There are many more who need our help. We receive no government funding, and we rely on the generosity of our supporters to fund our work. We are so grateful for your support.
Please email fundraise@brake.org.uk for information about collecting donations at a memorial event.
Memory Mile
Take part in a Memory Mile – a simple, personal walk to honour a loved one or colleague that died in a road crash.
You can walk alone, alongside family and friends, or bring together your wider community. There is no set route or required location – your mile can be wherever feels most meaningful to you, whether that’s a local park, a favourite walking spot, or a place connected to the person you are remembering.
As you walk, you might share stories and memories, or simply take a quiet moment to reflect.
More than a quarter of UK road deaths involve someone who was driving for work.
If you employ people who drive for work, you can play a vital role in preventing road crashes and reducing the risk of road death and harm, while improving your reputation and reducing costs.
Road Safety Week is a great opportunity to focus everyone’s attention on making roads safer so that everyone can travel in a safe and healthy way.
Here are some of the things you can do:
- Engage staff with key road safety issues and encourage them to commit to making safe and healthy journeys
- Include road safety in your corporate social responsibility strategy to show you care about staff, customers and local people
- Introduce robust policies and procedures to manage work-related road risk
- Remind drivers to think about who they share the road with and always drive at speeds appropriate to the road conditions
- Choose routes that use the safest roads and avoid places where people live
- Run targeted training for drivers that show unsafe driving behaviours
- Commit to investigate the cause of all collisions and near-misses.
Click on the links below to find out more.
Review your driving for work policies and procedure
Road Safety Week is a great time to review your driving for work policies and procedures – are you buying the safest vehicles with lifesaving features to help drivers keep within speed limits? Do your drivers understand the technology their vehicles are fitted with?
Review schedules and routes too – make sure your drivers aren’t being encouraged to speed to meet targets. Where possible, plan routes that avoid places where people walk and cycle.
Take time out to think about other road users
We share the road with people who have differing needs and abilities.
Pedestrians, cyclists, and riders are vulnerable on roads and account for half of all road traffic deaths worldwide.
- Run an ‘exchanging places’ day to help drivers understand the needs of other road users. These programmes also help people who walk and ride better understand how to be safe around large vehicles. Participants are invited to sit in the cab of a lorry so they can see where the mirrors and cameras are located, helping them to see where cyclists and pedestrians are visible to a driver.
- Make a commitment to put safety first when you schedule journeys, and avoid places where people walk and ride.
Watch a short film from Brake about how the Highway Code protects people who walk, cycle and ride horses. Click here to watch the film (opens in YouTube). A version with subtitles is also available.
Online driver training
Use our online driver training programme to help your drivers understand six key areas of road risk and ask them to pledge to drive safely.
The training will take about an hour to complete and at the end drivers can print a certificate to show that they have completed training.
Ditch the car and walk or cycle to work
Durig Road Safety Week, why not ask employees to ditch the car and walk or cycle to work. Reduce traffic. Make streets nicer and reduce pollution.
- If you don’t have safe paths to walk or cycle in your community, drop a line to your local authority calling for a path where you need it, or a 20mph limit to slow down traffic.
- Share information about cycle incentive schemes for employees.
Watch your speed. Watch your stopping distance.
At higher speeds a driver has less time to react to a hazard on the road. A vehicle can travel a long way in the few seconds it takes a driver to notice and react to any danger. Slowing down gives the driver more time to avoid a crash.
- Learn about why speed matters for safe and healthy journeys using information on the Brake website. Focus on stopping distances, speed limits and the link between speed and risk of injury.
- Remind drivers to think about who they share the road with and always drive at speeds appropriate to the road conditions.
Crash not accident! Changing our language will help save lives.
5 people die every day on UK roads – these are not accidents. Road deaths and injuries have causes that can be prevented and we can all play our part to help, by using roads safely to protect ourselves and others and by calling for change to make roads safe for all.
- Help colleagues, clients and drivers understand how you are managing your risk and helping to stop the carnage
Our sponsors
Road Safety Week 2026 is organised by Brake and sponsored by Hastings Direct, National Accident Helpline and Waymo. Thank you to our sponsors, we couldn't do it without you!