Ylies SEBIH, sales manager, rolls each year between 50 and 60,000 kilometers to cover the large area at its expense in the center-west of France.
He happened to him, “at the beginning”, to do “speeding to catch up with lost time“, but now systematically uses the regulator, for fear of losing points.
“”If you no longer have any licenses, you have no more jobs“He sums up.
The 35 -year -old Nantes still recognizes taking sometimes “slightly silly risks to take less breaks” or “lose a little in a vigilance“On journeys he knows by heart.
“”You are so always behind the wheel and on the same sectors that you take a little too confidence“He explains.”I’ve already been scares, but I’ve never had an accident“.
Not everyone is lucky.
Phone, speed, fatigue
440 people died in 2023 during work -related journeys, or almost 15% of the entire road mortality in France.
It was however “Not necessarily taken into account“In the past, notes Florence Guillaume, interministerial delegate for road safety.
“”In a company, often, we thought of safety, hygiene standards … And we forgot that, ultimately, the +Danger number one +, it is professional road risk“She said to AFP.
Launched in 2017, the days of road safety at work (JSRT), which took place until last Friday, alert to the main dangers: speed, fatigue and, above all, telephone.
“”There is a form of denial around the danger of the phone“, estimates Florence Guillaume.”People are not necessarily aware that when they look at an SMS or, worse, an email, it is not half a second that they take. It is often in fact 3-4 seconds and we can still travel a lot of meters in 3-4 seconds“.
“”Companies must succeed in making the message across the journey time, it is journey time. The car is not an office“, She insists.
“Well -rooted beliefs”
According to a survey carried out by IFOP for the insurer MMA, more than 80% of VSE and SME managers always underestimate the professional road risk.
This is not the case of Spie Batignolles, a large building company, whose 8,000 employees are regularly aware of the subject.
“”It is up to us, as an employer, to ensure that travel can be done in the best conditions“, Says Eduardo Blanco, Health, Security and Security Manager at Spie.
The JSRT allow his business to share “good practices”, such as financing an additional hotel night so that employees do not have to get up too early to arrive on a distant site.
The message is well received overall, even if some admits Eduardo Blanco, “are a little more reluctant, think they are in control and the rules are for the +blue +”.
“”We are often faced with well -established beliefs“He develops.”We can also use emotional communication, by highlighting the family side“.
When he skims the roads of western France, the sales Ylies Sebih often has his two boys in the lead.
“”You have to think that you have people waiting for you at night in the evening“He says.”It is better to be late for five minutes in front of school rather than never getting there“.