“Precaution is better than cure” – Edward Coke

The above quote perfectly sufficed the meaning and significance of safety in anyone’s life. In this vast corporate world, transport system is the hinge which connects the employees to the destined corporate offices. If your company mostly involves desk related services, like telecom, data analysis, then you don’t need to think too much about corporate cab services, but, if your company mostly involves delivery services like Zomato, Porter, Dunzo, you should take care of employee’s health and safety while travelling. Whatever be the size of your business organization, if your organization deals with shipping, delivering, or other means of corporate mobility, as the owner of the corporate empire you have all the legal responsibilities, including ensuring an impeccable transportation service for your workers. Employee safety plays a crucial part in corporate cab services.

This era of digitalization has allowed new opportunities when it comes to innovation, faster communication and more efficient process, and reshaped people’s overall habits, standards of living and upgraded lifestyle. The wide awakening of digital technology was bestowed as blessings on mankind which resulted in numerous advantages, and it is surpassing the efficiency of skilled manual workforces. The pandemic not only accelerated technological innovation but also it has reshuffled the priorities to put health and safety in the front and center. Travel or transport services in corporate offices need to figure out how they will adapt going forward. Specially, when we talk about employee safety, various shortcomings are there like driver shortages and ride price inflation.

“Nothing is of greater importance than the conservation of human life” – Calvin Coolidge

How to keep the vehicles safe?
There should be particular system of surveillance through which all the cabs can be monitored particularly like the braking system, steering, tires, lights, mirrors and specific safety systems. Always the vehicles need to be checked whether its purpose is solved or not. Arrange to install CCTV cameras is the first and foremost thing when it comes to travelling of women employees. To reduce unforeseen accidents, reduce the risk of falling when people have to climb onto a vehicle or trailer by providing well-constructed ladders, non-slip walkways and guard rails if possible. To make the travel safer and better, corporate cab drivers need to be trained well and they need to be supervised thoroughly. Health, Safety and Welfare Regulations 1992, takes care of a bunch of needs and demands of employees all over the world.

Technologies Used to Assure Safety inside Corporate Cabs
An injury at workplace can shake the whole foundation of morale and productivity. Real-time visibility of operations, geolocation tracking, online marketplaces with compliance, verification and digital payment facilities, cloud-based software, SAAS based services are the latest technologies being used as safety technologies in corporate transportation system. Startups such as CapGrid and iThink Logistics are few of the famous which are using latest technologies to provide safety, security and seamless travelling. Mobile Application software help workers and supervisors in real time tracking, it automatically sends messages to emergency contacts whenever it feels something wrong with exact location. Drones and robots are used to minimize employees’ exposure to falls and other risks by inspecting sites and monitoring operations.

Steps Taken for Women’s Safety
The most sensitive part is taking care of women employees who return their home after dark, there should always be a central system of surveillance so that she feels safe while travelling. According to a report from industry body, the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry (ASSOCHAM), over 1.5 lakh women, mostly in the age group of 21 and 28, are part of IT sector. With a greater number of girls coming into the Information and technology world, many corporate IT farms have introduced new regulations and safety measures catering women safety at work place and office cabs. Apart from mobile applications, CCTV, or real time tracking, IT companies have arranged a well-trained professional Chauffeurs and guards who will be there in every cab containing women employees. They also have enforced a few rules like a woman cannot be picked up first or dropped last.

Maintaining Control of Transportation
Planning the route prior to travel is the most important to ensure travel through secure and anomaly-free roads and besides this, a proper system of communication is needed. With this a robust response system can be enabled, by which the sudden emergencies can be handled in due time eradicating the life risks of the employees. There is software designed using the efficacy of Artificial Intelligence to ensure a worker’s emergency. This software helps in alerting and reporting immediately. A few software helps in connecting local police station as well as corporate security system at a time when emergency comes. Noventiq, a leading global solutions and service provider of digital transformation and cyber security helps the business organizations in adopting digital tools to cope with the changing times.

Conclusion
Employees are the gems for smooth functioning of an organization. It is the responsibility of the administration of the organization to allow the employees to work at their good health and risk-free environment. If the employees are not fit and fine, the foundation of the company will see a downfall in no time. That is the reason why corporate cab services are very important arm of corporate offices, because if they come and go safely, on time in a hassle-free manner, it will reflect on their performance as well. The global cab services market is rising with CAGR of 48.5 percent in order to reach a value of $1478 million. Technology comes as the panacea of all and playing the dominating part in the whole scenario. This 21st century has witnessed a whole paradigm shift in transport system getting the holy touch of technology. So, from the above discussion, we can surely conclude saying that, embracing the technology is the last resort of creating a healthy and risk-free transportation system.