Benefits of a Company-Wide
Motor Vehicle Safety Program
Motor vehicle accidents are a leading cause of death and injury among America's - and the global - workforce. Whether on or off the job, auto crashes can have devastating financial and psychological effects on your employees, their families, their co-workers, and their employers.
According to a joint publication of OSHA, the National Highway Traffic Safety Association, and NETS (Network of Employers for Traffic Safety), vehicle crashes cost employers over $60 billion annually in medical care, legal expenses, property damages, and lost productivity. They increase the cost of benefits programs - Social Security, workers' compensation, health and disability insurance - and overhead associated with program administration.
The average accident costs an employer $16,500, but the average cost to an employer for an on-the-job crash is $74,000! If an employee crash results in a fatality, costs can exceed half a million dollars.
Deploying a driver safety program within your workforce can help to lower the number of automobile crashes among your workforce and mitigate the effects of accidents when they do occur by helping your employees be prepared and respond more effectively in the event of a crash.
As the OSHA-NHTSA-NETS publication cited above explains, a company driver safety program can help:
- save lives and reduce injuries within your workforce;
- protect your company's human and financial resources;
- guard against potential liabilities for the company, its shareholders, and its employees resulting from crashes involving employees driving on company business.
Compared to these costs, implementing a driver safety program is extremely inexpensive. Companies that deploy such programs almost universally cite a high ROI (return on investment) from them. For example, in 2001 Liberty Mutual Insurance Company conducted an Executive Survey of Workplace Safety and found that 61% of the executives surveyed believed that their companies achieved an ROI of 3 to 1 or more.
DefensiveDriving.com's video courses, offered both on DVD and online via streaming video, are among the least expensive ways you can offer driver safety training to your workforce. Our courses are portable, reusable, easily distributed, and inexpensive to administer. Contact us today to find out how we can help your company set up an effective driver safety program.
Benefits of the DefensiveDriving.com
Wheels in Motion Video Course
Course Benefits
- Reduce Insurance Liability.
- Obtain Driving Record.
- Reduce risks, increase productivity and streamline cost.
- Fulfill company driver safety compliance.
- Foster more educated and safer drivers.
Flexible - Our courses can be taken all at once or in 10-15 minute increments, Employees will have up to 90 days to complete the course and registration. Employees complete the course around their schedules, not the other way around!
Cost-effective - Train all your drivers for a fraction of what it would cost to send them out for instruction - aid far less than the cost done preventable collision!
- Online management reduces record keeping efforts and administrative costs.
- Train any size group, even drivers at remote locations.
- Downtime is reduced because training takes place when employees are available and at their own pace.
- Interactive training has also been proven lo reduce training costs and increase productivity.
- No driving to and from class.
Convenient - Take it from home or from the office. Take the course from anywhere you have a computer or DVD player, eliminating the need for large classroom sessions.
Licensed Instructors - If any of your employees are having problems with any part of the course or just have a general question, call us, we have licensed instructors available toll-free, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Certificates of Completion - DefensiveDriving.com will mail Certificates of Completion directly to a designated company contact or la each employee via US mail.
Increased Retention - Impossible to ignore, interactive training reinforces learning due to a one-on-one interactive delivery method requiring all employees to participate. Ability to revisit lessons to review materials leaned anytime.
Management Tool - We understand the importance of having accurate, timely and efficient recordkeeping procedures that are a crucial component for the success of your transportation operation. We will provide management reports and summaries via email that will allow you to track employees currently enrolled in the driver safety course, including their daily progress, test scores and course completion dates. We can customize your reports any way you would like and have them to you at a time that is convenient for you.
No Upfront Payment - Your organization will be invoiced monthly for all employees registered for the course that month.
For Additional information please call us at 713-488-4011 or email info@defensivedriving.com.
Video based driver safety training offers many benefits over instruction classroom-based:
For Your Company
- No time spent planning and coordinating an in-house training session - your staff can devote their time to other activities
- No travel or lodging expenses for an outside trainer
- No restrictions on classroom size/location - no time lost looking for a convenient, central, sufficiently large meeting space to host a training session
- Eliminate scheduling problems and conflicts with daily business - employees can be trained at their convenience
- Cost effective instruction (especially in companies experiencing rapid growth or high turnover) - video based instruction offers "on demand" training opportunities at a significant cost savings over classroom instruction
- DVD, Internet-Streaming, or Hosted Video - companies may choose whether to host the course on a corporate intranet, store DVDs at their office facilities, or offer the course via streaming video on the Internet.
For Your Employees
- Convenient - the training materials are conveniently accessed through your corporate intranet or distributed DVDs. Testing is administered automatically over a telephone voice response system or via interactive forms on the Internet.
- Flexible - employee create their own training schedules, completing the course as their workload allows.
- One-on-one Instruction - Studies have repeatedly shown that learning is faster and retention longer in one-on-one learning situations than in traditional group classroom settings.
- Ongoing Reference Tool - Employees may find the video a valuable reference tool, revisiting lessons to refresh their memories on specific topics, or sharing information learned in the course with friends or family members.
DefensiveDriving.com is committed to providing our corporate clients the best possible driver safety training experience by offering:
- A single point of contact - a member of the management team will work with you to ensure that your driver safety program is successful.
- Customizable invoicing - complete with the information you need for your records.
- Customizable reporting - reports are built to meet the needs of each client.
- No minimum number of students required.
- No account maintenance fees.