When businesses expand quickly, it can be tricky to stay on top of policy creation and management.
Employees need consistent company policies to guide them on their responsibilities, as well as the company’s overarching business principles and beliefs — for compliance reasons and to ensure a healthy company culture. Written policies help protect your company from potential legal action.
Creating written policies may seem like an overwhelming task, but here are a few necessary policies all private hire businesses should have to get you started:
DBS
A Disclose and Barring Service (DBS) check is a way for businesses to check employees’ criminal records, to help them decide whether you are a suitable person to work for them. This includes deciding whether it is suitable for you to work with children or vulnerable adults.
Public liability insurance
Public liability insurance helps cover the costs of claims made by the public for incidents that happen in relation to your business activities. Public liability insurance covers the cost of compensation for personal injuries, loss of or damage to property and death.
All policies vary depending on the insurer, but most public liability insurances cover you for incidents that occur on your business premises and incidents that happen off-site, at events organised by your business.
Driving licence
A driving licence is the official document which authorises citizens to operate motor vehicles on highways and public roads. The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) administers it in England, Scotland and Wales and the Driver & Vehicle Agency (DVA) administers it in Northern Ireland.
Policy storage
Wise is an onboarding, payments and compliance platform providing innovative technology to companies that use drivers in their day-to-day operations – to save time, money, and grow their businesses.
Within the Wise Platform, private hire firms can store driver policies by having drivers sign and submit these documents via their Wise driver app. The Wise Platform can collect an unlimited number of official documents – meaning there are no upgrade costs if you need to use more storage.
This means having free unlimited storage on the Wise Platforms allows you to keep all your important driver’s documents stored securely in one place. Not only this, but the Wise Platform configures these documents in a way which allows you to download and send audit packs quickly and easily.
If you’re seeking a more secure approach to managing policies for your taxi drivers, don’t hesitate to reach out to one of our specialists today.
