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Download Safe Driving Tips For Free This Week

NAFA Fleet Management Association is proud to support Drive Safely Work Week and encourages members of the Association to download campaign materials for free this week.

2010-10-07
PRINCETON, NJ, October 07, 2010 (Press-News.org) Businesses throughout America are currently participating in Drive Safely Work Week. The annual campaign, sponsored by the Network of Employers for Traffic Safety (NETS) and supported by NAFA Fleet Management Association, is offering employers tool kits for free this year. The materials, which aim to reduce distracted driving on the roads with the message "Focus... Safe Driving Is Serious Business", may be downloaded at www.trafficsafety.org.

This year's campaign focuses on the role cell phones play in distracted driving. The use of cell phones or text messaging while driving significantly increases a driver's risk of being involved in an accident. The Drive Safely Work Week campaign tool kit offer tips on how to prepare an organization for the launch of a new cell phone policy or reinforce an existing policy and how to build awareness on the issues related to distracted driving while developing strategies to minimize the danger. The tool kit includes facts on distracted driving, interactive quizzes and tools, daily activities and communication messages, and downloadable posters for the office. Thousands of tool kits have been already been downloaded free of charge this year and NAFA encourages its Members to take advantage of the free offer.

"This is a very sensible and practical way to reinforce a cell phone policy or even put in place a cell phone policy that makes sense," said Jack Hanley, Executive Director, Network of Employers for Traffic Safety. "We made the decision not to charge for the kits. It's nice to be able to offer something that is promoted well, is a good product, and available for free."

Each year, cell phone distractions cause 600,000 crashes, 330,000 injuries, and 3,000 deaths according to the U.S. Department of Transportation. This year's Drive Safely Work Week (October 4-8) contains a push for businesses to set up corporate cell phone policies to restrict or ban the use of phones while driving. The campaign encourages businesses to dedicate time to emphasize safe driving messages through facts, communications, and meaningful activities. It also points out several methods - including the use of call blocking technology and encouraging employees to commute via mass transit - that can help businesses reduce distracted driving.

"Businesses across the United States are recognizing the impact of this problem on their employees and are beginning to adopt anti-distracted driving policies," said United States Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. "The materials in this kit are designed to help advance your company's efforts against distracted driving."

According to NAFA Executive Director Phillip E. Russo, CAE, "Safe driving is essential to the fleet managers who belong to NAFA, a group that collectively manages several million vehicles travelling on North American roads each day. NAFA has lent its support to the annual campaign for the past several years through a series of articles in the Association's print and online publications, press releases, and email blasts to the membership."

NETS, which has sponsored Drive Safely Work Week since 1996, is dedicated to improving the health and safety of employees, their families, and the community by preventing traffic crashes that occur both on- and off-the-job.

About Network of Employers for Traffic Safety (NETS)
NETS is a 501(c)3 organization, a partnership between the U.S. federal government and leading companies including Abbott, AmeriFleet Transportation, Anheuser-Busch Companies, Chubb Group of Insurance, Johnson & Johnson, Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, Nationwide Mutual Insurance, Monsanto Company, and UPS. Established in 1989, NETS is dedicated to improving the safety and health of employees, their families, and members of the communities in which they live and work by preventing traffic crashes both on- and off-the-job. For more information about NETS, visit www.trafficsafety.org.

NAFA is the world's premier non-profit association for professionals who manage fleets of sedans, public safety vehicles, trucks, and buses of all types and sizes, and a wide range of military and off-road equipment for organizations across the globe. NAFA is the association for the diverse vehicle fleet management profession regardless of organizational type, geographic location or fleet composition. NAFA's Full and Associate Members are responsible for the specification, acquisition, maintenance and repair, fueling, risk management, and remarketing of more than 3.5 million vehicles including in excess of 1.1 million trucks of which 350 thousand are medium- and heavy-duty trucks. For more information visit http://www.nafa.org.


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[Press-News.org] Download Safe Driving Tips For Free This Week
NAFA Fleet Management Association is proud to support Drive Safely Work Week and encourages members of the Association to download campaign materials for free this week.