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Featured Resource: 6 Essential Safe-Driving Behaviors
November 2011
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has published an analysis of driver, vehicle, and traffic-control safety measures that significantly reduce traffic deaths. Fleet safety managers and others can use the analysis to promote safe-driver behaviors with a high probability of reducing crash risk and severity and of saving lives. . . .
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Online Exclusive: Safety Checklist for Motor Vehicle Operators
COCA Online Exclusive August 2011
Cars, light trucks, minivans, and SUVs are so much a part of our daily lives that we sometimes forget or just ignore that motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of accidental death in the United States. You can use the safety checklist below, adapted from one created by the Texas Department of Insurance, as a regular inspection checklist for workers who drive these vehicles on the job. . . .
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Distracted Driving:
Federal Agency Proposes New Rules to Prevent
Work-Related Distracted Driving
July 2011
The operator of Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Green Line train 3612 pulled out his phone just as he was approaching Government Center station in Boston. At about 7 p.m., he began punching in a text message to his girlfriend. Twelve seconds later, his train crashed into a stopped train without slowing, derailing one car from each train, sending 68 people to the hospital with injuries, and causing nearly $10 million dollars in damage. . . .
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Fleet Safety:
Deadly Trucking Accident Spurs NTSB Recommendations for Fatigue
Management and Vehicle Safety
February 2011
Traffic was at a standstill in the eastbound lanes of the Will Rogers Turnpike just outside Miami, Oklahoma, on June 26, 2009; a minor accident had blocked the road. Truck driver Donald Creed, 76, was approaching the stopped traffic in his 18-wheeler, with his cruise control set at 69 miles per hour in the 75 mile-per-hour zone. What happened next has led the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) to issue new recommendations on fatigue management for commercial motor carrier drivers. . . .
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FMCSA bans texting while driving
November 2010
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has issued a final rule that prohibits texting while operating a commercial motor vehicle (CMV) in interstate commerce and imposes sanctions--in . . .
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Fleet Safety:
FMCSA Implements 'Comprehensive Safety Analysis 2010'; Learn the 'BASICS' of Safe Driving
October 2010
Every year, large trucks are in-volved in more than 350,000 crashes on America's roads. In 2008, large trucks were involved in 3,733 fatal crashes that killed 4,229 people and 64,000 crashes that injured 90,000 people. Another 297,000 crashes caused only property damage. That's a lot of big, heavy vehicles hitting other vehicles, people, and objects, sometimes at high speeds and with disastrous results. . . .
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Fleet Safety:
Employer Can Be Liable for Employee's Accident While Commuting; Don't Get Blindsided
September 2010
Maintaining a fleet of company-owned vehicles can create a headache for employers that must maintain the vehicles and provide training and oversight to the workers who use them. Employers whose workers don't often drive as part of their jobs may find it appealing to eliminate company-owned vehicles entirely and simply reimburse workers for mileage when they use their personal vehicles for their jobs. However, as a recent court case demonstrates, that option also has risks. . . .
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Trainer's Handbook:
Enhance Fleet Safety and Compliance by Training Workers in California's Newest Traffic Laws
March 2010
Many Californians work along the state's surface roads and highways--from highway workers and police and emergency response workers to tree trimmers, utility repairmen, crossing guards, sanitation workers, and more. For the sake of their safety, the safety of others, and an employer's own liability, it is vital that employees understand and comply with traffic laws while out on the roads. Many new traffic laws have taken effect in 2010, and this training session will help workers keep abreast of these developments. . . .
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