Welcome to Our Driving Concern: Employer Traffic Safety Program, a program of the National Safety Council. Our purpose is to educate employers on the impact crashes will have on their businesses and ways to help prevent crashes from happening. Motor vehicle crashes are the No. 1 cause of unintentional workplace deaths in the United States, and most of these crashes are preventable.
Our Driving Concern focuses on four areas where measures can be taken to prevent crashes—distracted driving, impaired driving, aggressive driving and passenger restraint. Simple and easy steps can be taken by employers to make sure these areas of concern do not lead to unnecessary costs to their businesses.
A workplace motor vehicle crash costs an employer more than $24,000. If the employee is injured, the cost increases to more than $125,000.
Off-the-job crashes are especially costly, accounting for 80 percent of employer crash-related health fringe benefit costs and 92 percent of employer crash-related health care costs.
All of the information presented here is intended to help promote safe practices on the road and is a valuable resource in educating your co-workers, friends, and family. This year more than 33,000 people will be killed on our nation’s roadways, so share these resources with those closest to you and hopefully none of you will become yet another statistic.
Our next webinar, "Eliminating Driver Distractions: Employer Cell Phone Policies Save Lives and Cut Costs," will take place Wednesday, February 15. This webinar will share the research behind the dangers of cognitive distraction, as well as the safety and liability risks to employers and the resources available to educate employees and implement cell phone policies. Register for the webinar now!
The most recent Our Driving Concern webinars, "Alcohol & Injury: Use Employer Interventions to Promote Safety and Protect Your Business" and "Motor Vehicle Incidents: A Cost to Business," can now be viewed in the webinar archive. These presentations by some of the nation's leading traffic safety profesionals are informational tools any employer would benefit from watching.