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10
Steps to Protect Your Most Important Resources:
A Model Driver Safety Program
Thursday,
November 4, 2004
2:00 PM Eastern Time
The
most dangerous part of the workday for any employee
is the time they spend in their vehicle. According
to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration,
every 12 minutes someone dies in a traffic crash,
every 10 seconds an injury occurs and every 5 seconds
a crash occurs. Some of these crashes occur as employees
are engaged in business-related travel during the
workday or during the employee’s commute to
and from work. While others occur during off-duty
hours. Whether the crashes occur on or off the job,
employers bear the cost for injuries and fatalities
that occur making it increasingly important for employers
to make traffic safety a corporate priority. All organizations
need a traffic safety program to save lives and to
minimize the risk of life-altering injuries within
their workforce.
This
seminar briefly outlines the NETS 10 Step Program
designed to reflect a set of corporate best practices
from which an employer can enhance their existing
program or begin to assemble their own model program.
These primary components that are necessary to build
the foundation for a successful traffic safety program
are useful for any organization regardless of size
of the organization, type of traffic encountered,
number of vehicles involved, or whether employees
drive company or personal vehicles for work or simply
commute to and from their place of employment.
What
You Can Expect to Learn in this e-Seminar?
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How to reduce the human and economic costs of traffic
crashes to your organization by creating a safety
culture.
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How you, as an employer, can guard against these
potential costs
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How to minimize your organization’s crash
risk by implementing the NETS 10 step process
The
presenter will be available following the seminar
presentations to respond to emailed questions from
participants.
Featured Presenter:
Kathy
Lusby-Treber is the executive director of the Network
of Employers for Traffic Safety (NETS), a national
employer-led public/private sector partnership dedicated
to improving the safety and health of employees, their
families, and members of the communities in which
they live and work by reducing the number of traffic
crashes that occur both on and off the job. With more
than 25 years experience in directing, managing, and
developing public health and safety programs, Lusby-Treber
has served as the executive director of NETS since
2000 providing leadership in planning, organizing
and directing the policies, programs and practices
of the organization. Prior to joining NETS, she served
as the chief of traffic safety programs in the Maryland
Highway Safety Office.
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Safely Work Week 2005