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Distracted Driving Awareness Month Is Here

April is National Distracted Driving Awareness Month – a great opportunity for individual drivers and corporate employers alike to promote safe, legal and responsible use of mobile phones while driving. It’s April 5 – so you have the bulk of the month left to encourage your employees, your family and even your friends to stay [...]

The Next Step: Start Enforcing Your Cell Phone Use Policy This Drive Safely Work Week!

A little while ago, we gave you a heads’ up that Drive Safely Work Week, the annual campaign to improve work-related road safety NETS champions, was coming up – and now it’s here. Today is day three, and we want to know – what are you doing to put NETS’ valuable suggestions for reducing distracted [...]

Drive Safely Work Week 2011 Is Almost Here – What to Do to Get Ready

For the past fifteen years, the Network of Employers for Traffic Safety (NETS) has organized “Drive Safely Work Week,” an annual campaign designed to help more companies and employees stay safe on and around the road. Last year, DSWW focused on distracted driving – just in time for the Department of Labor to decree that [...]

New NETS Study Emphasizes Importance of Cell Phone Use Policy Enforcement

The Network of Employers for Traffic Safety (NETS) is no stranger to the fight against distracted driving.  In October, NETS dedicated its flagship safety campaign Drive Safely Work Week to preventing work-related distracted driving.  And today, NETS released new findings emphasizing the importance of strongly enforced policies governing employee cell phone use. NETS’ latest issue [...]

A Month of Progress in the Fight Against Distracted Driving

As the month at the beginning of the year-end holiday season, October is not reknowned for being a particularly great time for road safety.  The presence of trick-or-treaters means Halloween consistently one of the top three days for pedestrian injuries and deaths. This October, however, has seen some remarkable progress in the fight against distracted driving. [...]

DSWW Day 5: Pledge to Change Your Company’s Approach to Distracted Driving

It’s the final day of NETS’ Drive Safely Work Week.  Today’s focus suggests using a carrot, rather than a stick, to begin changing prevailing norms regading cell phone use within your organization.  NETS proposes that in return for signing a focused driving pledge, including a promise not to text while driving, employees earn the right to show [...]

DSWW Day 4: Fixing Commuter Woes Will Help Reduce Distracted Driving

Yesterday, I stressed the importance of creating and administering corporate cell phone use policies to mitigate the risks and liability inherent in employee mobile phone use.  Today, I’ll address one of the big stumbling blocks corporations can expect to encounter when implementing restrictions on employee cell phone use: the inevitable resistance of a modern, mobile workforce. This is a [...]

DSWW Day 3: Use Technology to Prevent Distracted Driving

Now that you’ve identified distracted driving as a threat to your company, your next step is finding an effective method for managing employee cell phone use while driving.  But how? NETS recommends you investigate existing technological solutions for reducing distracted driving for day 3 of Drive Safely Work Week.  Option #1: Encourage employees to change their voicemail [...]

DSWW Day 2: 3 Tools to Rate Your Company’s Distracted Driving Risk

It’s the second day of NETS’ Drive Safely Work Week, and by now you already know that distracted driving is something you should be paying attention to.  But how seriously does distracted driving threaten your business?  Here are three tools for you to begin assessing the risk to which your company is exposed: “Rate your [...]

DSWW Day 1: ‘Paper’ Laws and Policies Are Only the First Step

Today is the first day of Network of Employers for Traffic Safety’s (NETS) annual road safety campaign, Drive Safely Work Week.  This year’s focus is distracted driving and the risks and dangers it creates for employers, employees, and the public. NETS has put together a free toolkit of activities and materials for employers – each [...]

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