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Appendix B - Survey Results from Motor Carriers
Appendix B - Survey Results from Motor Carriers
Pages 44-50
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8 3. Please estimate the percent of your work time focused primarily on safety concerns (as opposed to other, non-safety management areas such as operational management, administration, and sales)
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(Mean = 3.4) 5 Strongly Agree 13 Agree 10 Neutral 5 Disagree 2 Strongly Disagree Please provide any further comments on your view of safety management issues relating to driver distraction: I believe that this is the number one concern for all safety professionals.
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Driver personal cell phones are the biggest distraction. Electronic devices, both personal and company-provided, only add to the problems of driver distractions Assessment of Distracted Driving 1.
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Identification of Effective Distracted Driving Countermeasures Please indicate which of the following distracted driving countermeasures you believe to be effective (whether present or not in your current operations) External to Company 7 insurance penalties for phone-linked crashes 18 increased fines for crashes with cell phone use 24 cell phone prohibition laws 23 broad education campaigns on risk of driving while using cell phones in particular 23 broad education campaigns on risks of distracted driving in general Internal to Company 31 maintaining a strong safety culture 25 strong focus on recruiting drivers with a demonstrated safety record 30 clear employee policies and consequences for policy violation 24 having a post-incident coaching tool (or metric)
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Whether they are driving, loading, or unloading we have to train them to stay focused on what they are doing. Internal to Vehicle 21 company policy banning use of all personal communication devices while driving 10 company policy only banning cell phone use while driving 10 company policy only allowing hands-free or voice-operated communication devices while driving 25 fleet managers locking out certain functions on employer-provided communication devices 3 use of in-vehicle placards to remind drivers to "stay alert" 20 paying careful attention to placement of aftermarket devices within vehicle to minimize distraction 15 providing messaging from dispatcher with different levels of urgency so that driver can defer reading non-emergency messages 20 using active safety systems to augment driver's situational awareness and improve reaction time 9 physiological monitoring of driver attention placement (typically head- or eye-trackers)
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Anyone commuting to and from work cannot help but notice the number of vehicle drivers with a cell phone in one hand, sipping the coffee, smoking a cigarette, and somehow managing to steer the vehicle. The sole effective distraction countermeasure is focusing drivers' attention to the task of driving.
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5 Highly Effective 19 Effective 9 Neutral 0 Ineffective 0 Highly Ineffective Please provide any further comments on your view of effective driver–vehicle interfaces. I'm not familiar with haptic alerts or graded warnings, so it would be hard to form an opinion without doing some further research.
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