Your customer site - making it less dangerous for your drivers

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• Corporate Authors:
  Washington (State). Department of Labor and Industries
• Description:
  Trucking is a risky business. Few people would argue otherwise. The Trucking Injury Reduction Emphasis (TIRES) project was created to investigate the high rate of injuries in trucking, develop an understanding of how and why they were happening and identify methods for improving safety. Danger at customer sites: Since 2006 TIRES has interviewed 370 drivers and found that 215 of them (58%) were injured at customer sites. Clearly, reducing trucking-related injuries needs to involve those sites. But how, when the sites are outside the direct control of the truck driver's employer? Communication is the key to improvement: Make your concerns clear to your customers using focused, consistent communications that you repeat over time. 1.Talk with them about your concerns regarding the delivery bay. 2. Send copies of the att ached checklists with invoices or other customer correspondence.3. Communicate regularly, with reminders that safe deliveries keep their bays clear. 4. Thank customers for maintaining their bays.For your drivers, make sure they know that their safety is your priority. Talk with them regularly about safety at the customer site.The safety of your workers is a team investment-you, your workers, your customers.Together we can prevent injuries in trucking! [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Automobiles Education Men Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Safety Management Staff Development Women Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Drivers Exposure-levels Hazards Humans Injuries Injury-prevention Personal-protection Risk-factors Safety-education Safety-measures Safety-practices Training Trucking Work-environment Workers

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• Publisher:
  Washington State Department of Labor and Industries
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Guidance
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 10 ; Washington
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20044557
• Citation:
  Olympia, WA: Washington State Department of Labor and Industries, 90-47-2009, 2009 Dec; :1
• Contact Point Address:
  SHARP Program, Washington State Department of Labor and Industries, PO Box 44330, Olympia, WA 98504-4330
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2010
• Performing Organization:
  Washington State Department of Labor and Industries
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Your customer site - making it less dangerous for your drivers
• End Date:
  20260630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:b69b70c77c884297b82b2150005e6abef7ea211e31c49c835b2043d05b04cf10405e1f5be1babfdb567bf390a9562791376669e7084101bc9dbf81217947055c
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/200234/cdc_200234_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 208.99 KB ]