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Driving For Work
8X
Work-related road accidents are much more expensive than many employers realise. The estimated full cost can be €8 to €36 for every euro claimed on insurance.
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Driving For Work
95%
95% of all accidents are attributable to human error alone
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Driving For Work
1/3
It is estimated that between 25% and 33% of road traffic collisions involve somebody who was using the road for work purposes.
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Driving For Work
31%
of top Irish companies surveyed in 'Driver Wellbeing' advised they 'never' provide driver training to employees
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Driving For Work
72%
of top Irish companies surveyed in 'Driver Wellbeing' expressed an interest in using CBT to either train or proritise training of their drivers
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Work-Related Transport Safety
63%
According to the HSA, almost two-thirds of work-related fatalities in Ireland in 2008 involved workplace transport,
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Driving For Work
61%
of at-work drivers also admit to regularly leaving less than a two-second gap, compared to 40% of drivers who don’t drive for work
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Driving For Work
74%
of at-work drivers admit to travelling at least 10mph (16kph) faster on motorways, compared to 47% of drivers who don’t drive for work
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Driving for Work
45%
In a 2008 survey of 1,506 people by Nationwide Mutual Insurance in the USA, 81% of drivers acknowledged that they talk on phones while driving. 98% considered themselves safe drivers and 45% said they had been hit or nearly hit by a driver talking on a phone!
Source: New York Times July 19, 2009
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Decade of Action for Road Safety
Article: Decade of Action for Road Safety Launched.
Date: May 12, 2011
Decade of Action (2011-2020), an initiative dedicated to global road safety was launched on May 11, with ceremonies held throughout the world.
Every year, almost 1.3 million people are killed worldwide due to traffic crashes. That number is projected to increase to 1.9 million by the year 2020. The Decade of Action for Road Safety has a goal of stabilising and then reducing the level of worldwide road fatalities by bringing more attention to safety at regional, national, and global levels.
Employers are encouraged to engage not only their company drivers and employees with driver training and education initiatives, but also to extend the reach of these programmes to employee family members and to the communities where the company operates.
The Decade of Action plan outlines steps toward improving the safety of roads and vehicles, enhancing emergency medical services and improving road safety management. To support the Road Safety Decade of Action, organisations can plan their own events or join national or local events. See the official website for the Decade of Action (http://www.who.int/roadsafety/decade_of_action/en/), hosted by the World Health Organization (WHO), for advocacy tools and more information.
