Employers are implementing cell phone policies not only for fleets and commercial drivers, but for all employees. Allowing employees to use cell phones while driving represents acceptance of significantly increased crash risk.
Includes ready-to-use sample policies, executive summary for senior management, tips to build employee buy-in, and many policy roll-out communications for employees.
This free kit helps you reduce crash risk, with materials to:
- Build leadership support in your organization for a cell phone policy.
- Communicate to employees the crash risks and the need for a policy.
No state law or municipal ordinance yet prohibits adult drivers from using hands-free devices. To improve safety and reduce liability, NSC recommends that employers go further than state laws and prohibit hands-free device use while driving. This white paper explains why:
White Paper - Understanding the distracted brain: Why driving while using hands-free cell phones is risky behavior (PDF)
A series of 12 short videos to address the most frequently asked questions about cell phone use while driving. All videos are free for you to download or available via YouTube.
Two videos address workplace policies:
Over 2,000 NSC members responded to a 2009 survey about employee use of wireless communication devices while driving. Major findings:
- 469 companies prohibit both handheld and hands-free devices while driving for some or all employees.
- 99% said productivity did not decrease
For all the findings, download Cell Phone Policy Survey Results.
NETS' fleet benchmarking study of companies with a combined fleet of 350,000 passenger vehicles found that policies banning all cell phone use while driving were common among the companies with the best fleet safety performance:
- 83% of fleet safety leaders banned all types of cell phones, versus 43% of other companies
- Fleet safety leaders were less likely to exempt hands-free devices from their policies -- only 17% of leader companies allowed hands-free use while 57% of other companies did
- Fleets with leading safety performance have more stringent responses to policy violations. 83% respond to violations with disciplinary action, and 50% percent include termination as a disciplinary response.
NSC has a partnership with the NETS fleet safety benchmarking program, with benefits for NSC members.
Public Education to Share with Your Employees
Find videos of crash stories involving drivers using cell phones, PSAs, major media interviews, and more Aegis Mobility DriveAssist NSC has a strategic alliance with Aegis Mobility to promote corporate cell phone driving safety with its DriveAssist call management technology.
NSC Focus on the Drive Quarterly Newsletter
Employer Policy Presentations at the 2008 NSC International Symposium on Distracted Driving
The Coalition for Cellphone-Free Driving for employers in Canada and AMEC, an international consulting firm, shared effective cell phone policy strategies, including addressing productivity and accessibility.
OSHA's Distracted Driving Initiative
Coalition for Cellphone-Free Driving
Canadian employers committed to reducing cell phone use while driving. Offers many resources for employers.
New York Times: "At 60 M.P.H., Office Work is High Risk"
Part of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Driven to Distraction" series. Examines employee use of phones on the job and employer response to the risk.
New York Times Pulitzer Prize-Winning Series: "Driven to Distraction" Stories of impact of using electronic devices while driving on the job: taxi drivers, commercial truck drivers, managers and salespeople.
Cell Phone Use Report for ExxonMobil Monteressi. ExxonMobil Biomedical Sciences Inc.