Cut Costs, Reduce Risk With Employee Driver Safety Training

Can We Help Your Organization Lower Health and Liability Insurance Rates, Reduce Property Damage and Vehicle Damage, and Avoid Employee Injury and Traffic Violations? Read on!

Employee defensive driving instruction makes sense for your company – whether or not your employees operate motor vehicles on the job.

If your organization has a vehicle fleet or employees driving company vehicles or their own vehicles for company business, a comprehensive driver safety program can lower your vehicle and health insurance costs, reduce traffic fines, lower fleet maintenance costs, and lead to fewer employee injuries and down time.

And even if your organization doesn't have a single employee driving for the company, you can still benefit tremendously from offering defensive driving for your employees, through:

Reduced health insurance costs to you and your employees;
Reduced employee time off for driving-related injuries;
Lower insurance costs for employees with participating insurers.

Interested in learning how DefensiveDriving.com can help your organization save time, money, and perhaps even lives? Contact us for a free consultation. We'll craft a training program custom-made for your organization, based on our internationally recognized training video course.

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OSHA Releases New Motor Vehicle Safety Guidelines for Employers

New responsibilities, liabilities for employers in guidelines issued in cooperation with NETS, NHTSA.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), in partnership with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Network of Employers for Traffic Safety (NETS), has released new guidelines to help employers reduce motor vehicle crashes involving their employees. The document, titled Guidelines for Employers to Reduce Motor Vehicle Crashes (PDF), suggests specific actions employers can take to ensure motor vehicle in the workplace and in other areas of their employees' lives, as well. While these guidelines are not regulatory but merely advisory, the Occupational Safety and Health Act does require employers to comply with hazard-specific safety and health standards, and under the General Duty Clause of the Act employers can be cited for not taking reasonable steps to prevent of abate motor vehicle crashes involving employees in the workplace or on company time.

10 Facts Employers Must Know

For organizations with employees on the roadway
Reprinted with permission from Network of Employers for Traffic Safety

	In 2005, 43,443 people were killed and 2,699,000 were injured in 6,159,000 police-reported motor vehicle crashes. Daily that represents 17,000 reported crashes and 119 deaths.
	Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for all age groups from 3 to 33 years of age. Crashes are the 3rd leading cause of years of potential life lost for all ages combined.
	Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of occupational fatalities in the U.S.
	A typical driver in the U.S. travels 12,000 to 15,000 miles annually and has a one in 15 chance of being involved in a motor vehicle collision each year. With most fleet drivers traveling 20,000 to 25,000 miles or more each year, they have a greater crash exposure.