Road Safety At Work Week:
A Time To Take Action
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hy you should participate Think about the human and financial consequences just one crash can have on your trucking company, and the advantages to having strong road
2) Choose an activity to improve road safety in your organization. The website will have great ideas supported by useful resources to help you. 3) Once you have completed your activity, go back to the website and tell us what you did. You safety performance. will receive a certificate of completion The loss of life, or the impact of lifeand be eligible for one of three $250 altering physical injuries, of course, prizes to share with your team. Road Safety At Work cannot be measured. As for the financial Crashes are a significant Week (March 5-9, 2018) costs, they can be dramatic. Consider the workplace issue costs of helping a worker and his or her According to WorkSafeBC, motor is a time to take action family recover, the effect on co-workers, vehicle crashes are the leading cause vehicle repair or replacement costs, lost of traumatic worker deaths in BC. On to improve the safety of productivity and worker replacement costs. average each year in BC, 21 workers your drivers. Add to that the time and effort to investigate are killed and another 1,280 are injured the crash and administer all of the above, in workplace motor vehicle crashes. Register now to plus the likelihood of higher More than a third of these crashes participate. insurance costs and the damage to happen in the transportation your company’s reputation. sector. “When workers are injured in “Collisions involving large a motor vehicle crash, they are trucks are one of the top three typically more severely injured causes of injury claims and and off work longer than workers claims costs in the trucking injured at work in other ways” industry,” says Mark Donnelly, said Trina Pollard, WorkSafeBC’s executive director of Safety manager of Industry and Labour Driven - Trucking Safety Council Services for transportation and of BC. occupational road safety. “Taking steps to reduce the risks to your Carriers are responsible for the vehicles that operate under drivers will help you keep your workers safer, your costs down their National Safety Code (NSC) safety certificate and the and your trucks on the road.” workers assigned to drive those vehicles. Carrier responsibilities How to participate include establishing policies for safety programs and ensuring There are three easy steps to participating in Road Safety At those policies are followed. In addition, carriers have a legal duty Work Week: under provincial or federal OHS statutes to ensure the health and 1) Register at roadsafetyatwork.ca safety of their workers.
About Road Safety At Work
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oad Safety At Work is a WorkSafeBC initiative to help employers improve the safety of workers who drive for work or who work at the roadside. Road Safety At Work offers free online resources and courses — as well as workshops and advisory services — to help organizations plan, implement and monitor an effective road safety program. “A strong road safety program lets your employees know that you care about them, which can positively influence their engagement and how they approach their work, including their safe driving behaviour” says Rick Walters, Road Safety At Work’s fleet safety manager. “It can also help you attract and retain the best and brightest employees, which will improve your bottom line, and act as a strong competitive advantage for your company.”
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