Driving Monitor to host webinar on GDPR and DVLA changes

A poll of Driving Monitor customers has revealed the top questions regarding DVLA licence changes and the GDPR, which will be answered in a free webinar on 3 May at 2pm.

The past week has been a landmark in the changes to how employee licence checks are carried out in the fleet industry. With GDPR fast approaching the DVLA have now announced that the driving licence consent form (formerly known as the D796) has to be changed to fall in line with the new data protection legislation.

As of 25/05/2018 the DVLA consent form for checking licences will be changed and this has given rise to a lot of questions and speculation around the changes. As licence checks form an integral part of what fleet managers need to do to ensure they cover their duty-of-care, the webinar will look at what these changes are and how the GDPR will affect things.

This means that any companies using a 'paper' consent process will have to update their processes due to the new GDPR legislation. This also means any driver that has previously signed a 'consent form' will also have to re-sign the new fair processing declaration.

Driving Monitor polled its customers to find out which key questions are being raised the most, and have found the following top 5 questions:

• Will I be able to check my employees’ licences using the existing consent forms we have signed as they were supposed to last 3 years?
• Does the new data processing declaration last for an extra 3 years or will it just continue from the old one from however long that had to run?
• Does the DVLA service provide alerts or notifications as to points offences on licences?
• Do I need to consider any other data protection issues for checking employee licences or is everything else unaffected?
• Are my Grey Fleet drivers (my employees who use their own car) also affected?

In response to these questions Driving Monitor have developed a free webinar to give UK fleet managers the inside track on what to look out for when using the new digital services in line with GDPR.

Register for the free webinar on the Read More link below.