SafetyFirst’s Customer-Only Web Site Resources

A Green Light to Safety Research, Articles,

Specialty Reports & Training Presentations

Why Do You Pursue Safety?

Is it because over 42,000 people die each year in motor vehicle crashes?

Perhaps someone you love has been or may become involved in

a motor vehicle crash?

Why Do “We” Pursue Safety?• Because we can do more together than

independently of each other’s best efforts.

• Because there are many great ways to reduce the risk drivers face when behind the wheel – Safety Hotlines are only a part of the equation.

• Because we are passionate to try and make a difference in our employee’s and families’ lives.

Safety IS Our Goal• Fleet safety resources are widely available,

but sometimes are focused on non-commercial drivers (ie. teens, personal cars, etc.)

Safety IS Our Goal• SafetyFirst’s goal is “to reduce commercial

vehicle collisions and the costs associated with them”

• To support this goal we research, author and collect valuable articles and training slides – focused on “commercial vehicles” - to help our customers.

Safety IS Our Goal• Since each fleet has unique concerns and

is always pressed for time, we do not ‘flood’ our clients with these articles

However, we have arranged a resource

library on our web site for their benefit.

Access to the Resources• Each hotline client is provided with a unique

ID and password to access our resources, and their company data (derived from our safety hotline process)

• The log in process is simple, and delivers each client to a menu of choices.

www.safetyfirst.com

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Customer Options

Clicking on the title of each section will

take you to a distinct part of our

web site

Customer Options• This presentation will focus on options NOT

related to running specialty reports

• Information on accessing reports is covered in a separate presentation

Ten-Minute Training Topics• The first section we’ll review is a library of

Ten-Minute Training Topics.

• These topical training sessions for drivers have been sent monthly since May 2003.

Ten-Minute Training Topics• The training topics provide an opportunity

to: – refresh all of your drivers on how to avoid

certain types of collisions, and – can be used as an additional support tool for

drivers with repeat complaints.

Ten-Minute Training Topics• Each topic contains a handout for your

drivers and a 8” X 11” mini-poster.

Ten-Minute Training Topics• Some contain a “manager’s supplement”

document to provide additional insights to your supervisors:– Recent news stories

about the topic– Web site resources– Questions they might

hear from drivers

Ten-Minute Training Topics• Recently, we’ve added power point slide

shows, driver handbooks, word searches and other elements to support our client’s efforts to raise safety awareness.

Ten-Minute Training Topics• We are working on ways to translate our

current materials into an online, interactive program with quizzes and recordkeeping.

• This approach could be combined with electronic report returns to further streamline the program.

Ten-Minute Training Topics• Topics include issues such as:

– Drowsy Driving– Pedestrian Collisions– Poor Visibility– Parking Lot Collisions– Crash Reporting– Following Too Closely– Lane Change Collisions– Honoring the Right of Way

Ten-Minute Training Topics• The library is arranged in two parts:

– Administrative notices (release calendars, supplemental information, etc.)

– Training topics arranged by release date (showing a topic title or description, too)

Admin section

Topics section

Ten-Minute Training Topics• To view any administrative notice, simply

click on the title and the document will display in your web browser

• To view a topic, click on the title, and you will find a menu providing options for format and document type (driver handout, manager’s supplement, etc.)

Ten-Minute Training Topics• At this point, you can click on the document

of interest and it will display in your browser (requesting MS Word documents may require you to click “open” on a pop up box, but Adobe Acrobat documents will open up directly)

Ten-Minute Training Topics• If you want to save a copy to your hard

drive, just use your mouse to ‘right click’ on the document name and choose “Save Target As” from the menu.

Ten-Minute Training Topics• If you need a special topic that you do not

see listed, contact us – we may be working a new topic, or we might be able to research the issue for you.

• Just click “Back” to return to the Customer Options Page

Technical Presentation Library• Next, let’s look at our Technical

Presentation Library…

Technical Presentation Library• Each year, we speak at safety conferences

and expos around the USA.

Technical Presentation Library• When we return from these sessions, we

update our library with our slide shows so that safety managers can access a wide variety of power point slide shows.

• These slide shows can be used as is, or as the basis for your own presentation research.

Technical Presentation Library• The presentations are currently arranged

from oldest to most recent.

• Each section includes the name of the conference where the slides were originally presented, the original presentation date and title.

Technical Presentation Library• To view a slideshow, just click on the title,

and then click “open”

Reference and Support• Next, let’s take a look at our “help” section –

the reference and support document library

Reference and Support• We’ve created a section of reference and

support documents to help clients understand various features of our program.

• Additionally, when you have new staff or supervisors join your firm, it provides training on how the program works.

Reference and Support• This menu works like the others – just click

on a document name to view it.

If you don’t see a topic or issue presented that

you have questions about, call us – we will send you the needed information, and work on getting it added to

the site for future reference.

Fleet Safety Articles• Finally, let’s review our library of fleet safety

“position papers” and published articles.

Fleet Safety Articles• From time to time, we have had fleet safety

articles published in various journals.

• These articles deal with issues like setting up MVR review plans, protecting your documents as evidence following a crash and “negligent entrustment”

Fleet Safety Articles• We’ve posted several of these articles on

our site for your review.

• As additional articles are published by SafetyFirst authors, or are published about SafetyFirst, we’ll add them to the list.

Summary• For now, that’s what we’ve posted for

clients to access.

• Each list grows as we add new:– Training Topics, – Articles and – Reference materials.

Summary• We’d like to hear from you about:

– additional materials you’d like to see, or

– ways to present information in easy-to-use formats.

THANK YOU• Thank you for your commitment to

reducing crashes and the costs associated with them.

Together, we can

save lives