Trucker safety : using a seat belt matters

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Center for Motor Vehicle Safety
• Description:
  Trucker safety requires an alert, buckled-up, experienced driver, with a reliable vehicle and strong employer safety programs. About 2.6 million workers drive trucks that weigh over 10,000 pounds (large trucks). About 65% of on-the-job deaths of US truck drivers in 2012 were the result of a motor vehicle crash. More than 1 in 3 truck drivers have had a serious truck crash during their career, and 1 in 8 has had 2 or more. Buckling up is both effective and required by federal regulations. But 1 in 6 drivers of large trucks don’t use their seat belts (2013). More than 1 in 3 truck drivers who died in crashes in 2012 were not wearing seat belts. Buckling up could have prevented up to 40% of these deaths.
  
  Employers can help truck drivers stay safe by:
  
  • Committing to driver safety programs at the highest level of leadership.
  
  • Establishing and enforcing driver safety policies, including requiring everyone in the truck to buckle up.
  
  • Involving workers in decisions about how to put seat belt programs in place.
  
  • Promoting seat belt use in training and safety meetings.
  
  • Addressing factors that contribute to crashes, such as drowsy and distracted driving, in their driver safety programs.
  
  CS253568-B
  
  
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents, Traffic/prevention & Control Motor Vehicles Seat Belts/utilization
• Series:
  CDC Vital signs
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Popular Works
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Pages in Document:
  4 numbered pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20045857
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:ccda18ed83febb326423406d649e85754427f00498ac4c571a88f4249873ff2c225854bf5be17f4c927612da2dd20a6099542c284efc8ea9f1d0c71c92efc8f1
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/28171/cdc_28171_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 3.21 MB ]