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Health & Habitat
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Driving on Business?
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Advanced Drivers
benefit from a
20% reduction on
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Safe Driving
a selection of your photography
Grainne Coogan
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1 ‘Copper Coast, Waterford’ by Kevin Grace. 2 Killarney National Park by Kevin Byrne. 3 & 4 ‘Fin and tail of Humpback Whales in the
Pacific Ocean, off Puerto Vallarta, Mexico’ by Michael Hughes. 5 ‘Winter morning in Avoca, Wicklow’ by Dessie O’Hara, retired staff Finglas.
6 ‘Antelope Canyon Arizona’ by John Wallace.
It is ESB’s ambition
that all staff who
drive on ESB business
will complete
Advanced Driver
Training
One of the targets of the
most recent safe driving
programme, Achieving
Road Safety Excellence
2009 – 2011, was that by
the end of the programme,
50%of staff who drive
on ESB business should
have completed Advanced
Driver training.
The training has been
completed by more than
2,500 staff since it was
introduced in 2006. It has
been a leading element
of our safe driving
programmes, which have
seen serious collisions
in our fleet drop from
63 a year to 13. Other
elements of the most
recent programme include
the installation of a fleet
management system
in all fleet vehicles, the
consolidation of driving
policies into The Fleet
Drivers’ Handbook,
which was issued to all
fleet drivers, and that
was followed by the
publication of a Private
Drivers’ Handbook and
a road safety awareness
DVD that was issued to all
staff.
The Safe Driving
Programme 2013 – 2020
will be launched shortly.
Advanced Driving
Training will continue to
be one of the bedrocks of
the programme, the target
being that the remaining
2,000 staff who drive on
business, but have not yet
completed training, will
attain Advanced Driver
status over the next three
years.
Staff who have
participated in the
training have commented
on the great benefits it has
brought to their driving
behaviour. Advanced
Driver Training teaches
the driver to control the
vehicle with precision, to
drive with higher levels
of concentration and
awareness, to anticipate
danger and mistakes
from other drivers
and to always leave a
comfortable margin for
safety.
Training is divided
over two days:
Day 1 – A classroom
session followed by an
on-road session.
Day 2 – Follow-up onroad session and the
Advanced Driver Test.
(Held about four weeks
after Day 1)
For more information contact
Gráinne Coogan, Communications Officer at 01 4631721,
email safedriving@esb.ie or
visit the Safe Driving Website:
http://esbnet/safedriving
Undiscovered Carcassonne
What’s New?
by Dave Walshe
Carcassonne is probably
not one of the first cities you’d cite
if asked for a city break destination.
However, with the relentless
growth of Ryanair it is an option
for more and more people as the
airline fly there from 12 European
locations. Reasonably priced daily
flights from Dublin and seasonal
flights from Cork have proven
popular and I had the pleasure of
taking two trips there. It must be
one of the easiest airports to get
in and out of giving you a most
welcome start to your stay. A
medieval city, it’s about the same
size as Waterford. It has a most
impressive walled castle, which
dominates the city. It is a real step
back in time walking around it and
a beautiful location for an evening
meal. It screams Basil Rathbone
and old Sherlock Holmes movies
with dark alleys and long scary
shadows. Carcassonne is a city
that is ideal for exploring on foot
or on a bicycle and is the perfect
location to base yourself if you
want to explore the LanguedocRoussillon region with the
Pyrenees within easy reach. If a
lazy boat trip is your thing then
you are spoilt with the nearby
Canal du Midi.
As you can imagine there is a
great range of places to stay with
prices to suit every budget. Dining
out in France is like no other
dining experience in Europe and
in this regard I will give special
mention to Chateau de Cavac, a
restaurant in a converted stable
where the menu is designed to
cater for every palette. Y don’t
ou
pick a wine as they provide it as
part of the meal from their own
vineyards.A six course meal here
costs €45 and that includes the
wine – a red, a white and a rose,
refilled as required. All the rooms
are named and of different sizes to
accommodate families or couples
wanting an escape.
They also have different levels
of facilities to ensure every pocket
is catered for. It is a must visit
if you go to Carcassonne and
judging by the amount of
English speaking voices I
heard it has been discovered
by a fair amount of people.
Carcassonne delights and
caters for most types of visitor
from the sporty, active types
to the easygoing, take-it-as-itcomes ones. n
Check out www.chateau-decavanac.fr for full details.
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http://www.chateau-de-cavanac.fr
http://www.chateau-de-cavanac.fr
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