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Safe-driving policies implemented in the workplace can promote safer driving away from work. In addition, employers, as purchasers of large fleets of vehicles, can spur improvements in vehicle safety, and encourage development of road safety capacity and legislation in the local areas and countries in which they operate, thereby improving road ...
The National Highways Driving for Better Business Programme offers a free Driving for Work Policy Builder and other resources to help Driver Managers and Employers reduce work related road risk. The Network of Employers for Traffic Safety (NETS), for example, is sponsoring a Drive Safely Work Week October 5-9, 2009, and offering a campaign tool ...
The terms "active" and "passive" are simple but important terms in the world of automotive safety. "Active safety" is used to refer to technology assisting in the prevention of a crash and "passive safety" to components of the vehicle (primarily airbags, seatbelts and the physical structure of the vehicle) that help to protect occupants during a crash.
In China, the Ministry of Health is responsible for occupational disease prevention and the State Administration of Work Safety workplace safety issues. [citation needed] The Work Safety Law (安全生产法) was issued on 1 November 2002. [117] [118] The Occupational Disease Control Act came into force on 1 May 2002. [119]
What makes distracted driving so dangerous is how it impacts our ability to make safe driving decisions. For example, drivers focusing on their phones more than the road might not see someone stop ...
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety proposes restrictions for new drivers, [64] including a "curfew" imposed on young drivers to prevent them driving at night, an experienced supervisor to chaperone the less experienced driver, forbidding the carrying of passengers, zero alcohol tolerance, raising the standards required for driving ...
In addition, driving drowsy can have an impact on your car insurance.If you get into an accident due to fatigue, your car insurance rate could increase significantly. And, if the crash results in ...
Systematic motor-vehicle safety efforts began during the 1960s. In 1960, unintentional injuries caused 93,803 deaths; [5] 41% were associated with motor-vehicle crashes. In 1966, after Congress and the general public had become thoroughly horrified by five years of skyrocketing motor-vehicle-related fatality rates, the enactment of the Highway Safety Act created the National Highway Safety ...