Posts Tagged 'corporate cell phone policies'

2nd Annual Employee Distracted Driving Survey Results Are In!

Today, we published the results of our second annual employee distracted driving survey – and the results are fascinating. 80% of companies now have cell phone use policies in place – up 29% from last year. Here’s what else has changed since our landmark May 2011 first annual survey: Efforts to enforce written cell phone [...]

Companies Face Uphill Battle in Effort to Prevent Employee Distracted Driving: Here’s Why!

Earlier this week USA Today published an excellent article highlighting how employers are growing increasingly aware of the corporate risk and liability associated with employee use of mobile devices while driving on-the-job. While reporter Larry Copeland’s conclusions are encouraging, it’s important to note that “awareness of risk” is only the first step in a process [...]

Companies Taking Steps to Prevent Employee Distracted Driving: Sunoco

Inspired by Chris Kilbourne’s excellent Safety Daily Advisor mini-series on companies who are taking the bull by the horns and implementing distracted driving policies to enhance safety and reduce risk, earlier this month I wrote about the first company he profiled – KCI Technologies. Now, let’s take a look at efforts from a very well-known [...]

Companies Taking Steps to Prevent Employee Distracted Driving: KCI Technologies

Did you know that one recent survey found that more than half of employees with smartphones said they check them while driving? 54%, to be exact. That’s a huge proportion – and one that should get the attention of any company who issue employees with phones – or lets them drive company-owned vehicles. In an [...]

Volkswagen and Audi: Two Employers Who Embrace Safe Driving Practices

It’s fitting that two auto manufacturers would step up and publicly show that preventing work-related distracted driving starts with employers. The two companies in question, Volkswagen and Audi, yesterday hosted U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood at their joint American headquarters in Herndon, VA (where ZoomSafer HQ is located, too!). What was the occasion? As Sec. [...]

Check Out Interim Findings from Our Distracted Driving Survey

Back in March, ZoomSafer launched a distracted driving survey to learn more about corporate attitudes on distracted driving. Six weeks and more than 400 responses later, we’ve got some preliminary results – and those results are very revealing. Here’s a sneak peek of the data we’ve collected:   If you haven’t taken the survey yet [...]

School Bus Driver Arrested for Texting on the Job

Earlier this week, police in Trumbull, Connecticut arrested a woman for texting while driving. Not only does Connecticut prohibit texting and handheld phone use while driving, the woman is a also school bus driver. And in less than two months, she sent 1,068 texts while driving a commercial vehicle. With that information – it’s no [...]

[Survey] Does Corporate America Care About Distracted Driving?

There are many studies published that detail the dangers of cell phone use while driving – the National Safety Council estimates more than 50 in all. Pew Research Center and CareerBuilder.com have each produced compelling research showing the extent of adult and employee cell phone use behind the wheel. By now, it’s widely accepted and [...]

Could Workers’ Compensation Benefits Be Denied If Employers Don’t Manage Distracted Driving Risk?

Should an employee be compensated for injuries suffered in a distracted driving crash -when it was the employee who caused the crash in the first place? “Distracted Driving Workers Compensation Claim Draws Major Public Attention,” an article by John L. Gelman recently published on Lexis/Nexis, highlights another potentially serious impact distracted driving could have on the [...]

iPhone Growth Could Spell Trouble for Fleets Seeking to Enforce Cell Phone Use Policies

According to new stats released today by Nielsen, more than 25% of all U.S. smartphone users are carrying an Apple iPhone. And with the imminent launch of a CDMA iPhone on Verizon, America’s largest wireless carrier, those numbers are likely to increase. That’s great news for Apple shareholders – but it’s a sticky technical challenge [...]

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