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Oct 6, 2015

NIOSH Drive Safely Work Week 2015 – Is Your Company (and its Policies) Ready?

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The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Center for Motor Vehicle Safety (CMVS), through its NIOSH Science Blog, recently featured the Drive Safely Work Week campaign. The event is scheduled for this week, October 5-9, 2015.

Drive Safely Work Week is sponsored by the Network of Employers for Traffic Safety (NETS). NETS is a public-private partnership to engage employers in preventing motor vehicle crashes on and off the job. In their blog, Rebecca Olsavsky and Stephanie Pratt, PhD, note that “motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of workplace fatalities in the U.S., and the second leading cause of unintentional fatal injuries off the job.” (Emphasis added.)

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