New research shows another form of using a cell phone when driving is not only dangerous, it’s no safer than the hazardous behavior it’s meant to replace.
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Tags: hands-free cell phone, text while driving, using cell phone while driving, voice-to-text
Do employees at your workplace know what to do if someone started shooting inside your building?
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Tags: active shooter, Department of Homeland Security, exit routes
A new study confirms it: In safety-critical situations, short distractions make mistakes much more likely.
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Tags: disruptions and safety, distraction, workplace mistakes
Distracted driving; bicycle helmets; a stiff fine for lockout/tagout hazards; injuries to nonprofit volunteers and workers’ comp; and we’ve seen NFL replacement refs, how about replacement workers’ comp magistrates? It’s all in this week’s Safety News Summary. Click “more” to read on.
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Tags: bicycle helmets, distracted driving, lockout/tagout, replacement refs
The family of a young man who received serious, traumatic injuries in a car crash because he was texting has started a nonprofit to discourage texting while driving. His next-to-last text while driving was partially prophetic.
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Tags: car accident, quit texting, texting while driving, UnSend
Here’s proof that allowing employees to talk on cell phones for business purposes while they’re driving can be costly.
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Tags: cell phone driving, Coca-Cola, hand-held cell phone, hands-free cell phone
The National Safety Council (NSC) is encouraging companies to begin implementing total bans on cell phone use while driving for all employees. How would that go over at your company?
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Tags: cell phone ban, Distracted Driving Awareness Month, National Safety Council
Contrary to previous research, a new study says California’s ban on using hand-held cell phones while driving has reduced the number of related traffic fatalities and injuries.
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Tags: cell phone ban, hand-held cell phones, hands-free cell phones, traffic deaths, University of California study
Researchers have already delved into whether talking on a cell phone is likely to cause vehicle crashes involving injuries and deaths. Now a team in Europe has looked into incidents not involving vehicles, including those at work.
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Tags: Accident Analysis and Prevention, distracted by cell phone, injured while on cell phone
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) reports that in 2010, the number of transportation fatalities was down. Despite that decline, there was a rise in several categories.
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Tags: cell phones, deaths on roads, NTSB, transportation fatalities
