Impact of a motor-vehicle crash prevention program in a large police department.

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• Personal Author:
  Alpert G ; Bell J ; Gwilliam M ; Hendricks S ; Konda S ; Rojek J ; Tiesman, Hope M.
• Description:
  Objectives: Motor-vehicle crashes (MVCs) are the leading cause of on-duty injury death among law enforcement officers. In 2009, a large municipal police agency developed a three-pronged crash prevention program that included policy changes, new training requirements, and a marketing campaign. We evaluated the impact of this program on MVCs and motor-vehicular injuries.Methods: Data were obtained from four agency databases: hours worked from human resource/payroll, MVCs from internal crash files, mileage data from fleet services, and injuries fRom, William N.orkers' compensation claim data. Motor-vehicular injury rates were defined as the total number of workers' compensation claims for a MVC divided by the total productive hours and expressed per 100 full-time equivalents (FTEs). MVC rates were defined as the total number of MVCs divided by total miles driven and expressed per 100,000 miles. MVC rates and motor-vehicular injury rates were compared between the three years before program implementation (20072009) and three years after full implementation (20112013). The year of implementation was not included in the analysis (2010). Differences between the pre-and post-intervention rates were evaluated using Poisson regression. Results: Preliminary analyses show that the agency's motor-vehicular injury rate significantly declined 41% from pre-to post-intervention (pre-intervention=3.5; post-intervention=2.1; RR = 0.59, 95%CI = 0.48 -0.72). This was most pronounced in the patrol divisions where the motor-vehicular injury rate was cut in half (preintervention=4.0; post-intervention=1.9; RR=0.47, 95%CI=0.36 -0.62). The agency's MVC rate also significantly declined 15% from 2.2 to 1.9 crashes per 100,000 miles driven (RR = 0.85, 95%CI = 0.79 -0.91). Conclusions: Preliminary analyses indicate that the crash prevention program was associated with a significant reduction in both motor-vehicular injury and MVC rates. Future analyses will measure changes in injury severity and characteristics of MVCs pre-and post-intervention. Additionally, the 2007-2013 MVC trends from two other large municipal law enforcement agencies will be used as comparison groups for the current study results.
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Diagnosis Hematologic Tests Neoplasms Occupational Health Safety Urine
• Keywords:
  Accidents Injuries Law-enforcement Law-enforcement-workers Morbidity-rates Mortality-data Motor-vehicles Police-officers Preventive-medicine Statistical-analysis Surveillance

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• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Abstract
• Place as Subject:
  District of Columbia ; Michigan ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 5 ; South Carolina ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSR - Division of Safety Research
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  63
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20047362
• Citation:
  National Occupational Injury Research Symposium 2015, (NOIRS 2015), May 19-21, 2015, Kingwood, West Virginia. Morgantown, WV: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 2015 May; :63
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2015
• NORA Priority Area:
  Services: Public Safety
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
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