Road Safety : Essential Safe Driving Behaviors & Factors Contributing for Road Accidents

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Essential Safe Driving Behaviors & Factors Contributing for Road Accidents

Essential Safe Driving Behaviors

Make sure your employees are safe behind the wheel whether they are driving on the job or commuting to and from work.

Driving is such a common occurrence that they may take safe driving practices for granted. This is precisely why occasional training refreshers on safe driving are a very good idea.

It is analysis that driver, vehicle, and traffic-control safety measures that significantly reduce traffic deaths. You can use the analysis to promote safe-driver behaviors with a high probability of reducing crash risk and severity and of saving lives.

Here are six safety measures that you can promote to reduce employee deaths and injuries from motor vehicle crashes both on and off the job:

1. Buckle up. Seat belt use is the single most effective strategy for reducing crash deaths and injuries. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that seat belt use saved many lives and could have saved almost —particularly back seat passengers, who are less likely to buckle up. Make buckling up a requirement for all of your employees who are drivers or passengers in motor vehicles.
2. Wear a helmet. Not many workers drive a motorcycle or scooter on the job, but they might ride these fuel-efficient two-wheelers outside of work, especially in light of rising gas prices. Helmets saved nearly many Lives in  and could have saved many more, according to the Road Safety Departments. Encourage your motorcycling (and bicycling) employees to wear helmets.
3. Restrict teen drivers. Graduated licensing laws that restrict when teens can drive, and how many teen passengers they can carry, have been shown to reduce teens' crash deaths. Although labor laws forbid teens from driving as part of their job until age 18, you can still support motor vehicle safety among your teenage employees by ensuring that they do not work late into the night, when they might be at more risk for crashes after leaving work.
4. Slow down. Many states are raising speed limits—some to as high as 85 mph—but slower speeds save lives, and some trucking groups advocate a national 65 mph speed limit. Whatever the speed limits are in your area, adhering to them enhances safety. Encourage your drivers to observe posted limits.Always follow the local traffic rules.
5. Stop. Red-light running killed many people, and injured more too . Encourage your drivers to observe traffic signals and stop signs.
6. Stay sober. Alcohol impairs drivers, and impaired drivers are a hazard to themselves and others. You can help by discouraging alcohol use at company functions and parties, and by making sure that workers understand how easily and quickly alcohol can affect their judgment and reaction time.

 Factors Contributing for Road Accidents

1. Human (Driver/Pedestrian/Passenger)
1. Non-Compliance to traffic rules (Overtaking, Speeding,etc.)
2. Impairment (drugs,alcohol,etc.)
   
3. Lack of Abilities and capabilities  (License,vision etc.)

   

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4. Poor Attitude and Attention (emotion,phone distraction,etc.)
5. None usage of Helmet and protection clothing utilization 
6. None wearing of Seat belt.
   
2. Vehicles.
1. Maintenance 
2. Inspections
3. Damage
4. Condition of wheels and tires
5. Condition of steering, 
6. Pedals,
7. Levers,
8. Lights
9. Suspension, 
10. Design Standards
11. Overloading 
    
3. Road Infrastructure 
1. Surface (friction,shoulders,potholes, etc.)
2. Geometry (gradient,lanes,no shoulder,curves,etc.)
3. Poor maintenance, Traffic Volumes,
4. Inadequate signs,
5. reflectors,
6. signal, 
7. lighting, etc., 
8. Obstacles (Intersection type, crosswalk,island, etc.)
9. Poor road system (entry and exist of vehicles).
   
4. Transport and land use
1. Transport alternatives,
2. Other modes,
3. Spatial arrangement,
4. Co-location
5. Accessibility-remoteness,
6. Location,
7. Service Levels,
8. Transport integration.
   
5. Environmental
1. Weather (Fog,rain etc.)
2. Smoke
   
6. Socio-economic circumstance
1. Economics (finance,funding),
2. Employment Structure,
3. Population Growth,
4. Politics and government
5. Social norms and background
6. Travel purposes and activities
7. Legal (regulation,liability,insurance). 

 

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