The National Safety Council’s Our Driving Concern (ODC): Texas Employers Safety Program will honor Texas employers though a new awards recognition program. Traffic Safety awards will be presented to Texas businesses that encourage positive driver behaviors among employees on-and-off the job. The goal is to change driver behaviors and decrease traffic crashes and fatalities on-and-off the job. The Our Driving Concern is a program of the National safety Council with program funding through a Texas Department of Transportation. These traffic safety grants assists employers in implementing well-developed policies and comprehensive workplace programs that can help in reducing traffic crashes involving workers in their organization. The benefits gained are numerous.
The workplace is a natural setting for distributing traffic safety messages and discussing driver behaviors. As an employer, you can help employees avoid traffic injuries and deaths, while protecting the bottom line profits of your business. Through the development of company policies, education, and offering incentives, companies can save lives as well as costs associated with traffic crashes on-and-off the job. By increasing traffic safety education in your organization, you demonstrate your concern for the well-being of each employee and their families. The company will help save lives, act as a role model for other companies and be recognized for its efforts.
- Eligibility: Any Texas business is eligible to submit an application. Anyone may nominate a company or the company can self-nominate. Companies may be municipal, corporate, private or not-for profit, small or large.
- Companies Judged: What the company is doing in terms of education and outreach within their company focusing on traffic safety and driver behaviors to reduce traffic crashes on-and-off the job, the primary cause of lost work time and employee fatalities. Each business application is reviewed individually based on their merit.
- Categories: There are three categories, Honorable Mention, Award Recipient and Exemplary Award Recipient.
- To Apply
- Deadline: Entries are due electronically no later than March 15, 2018
Awards: Award Recipients and Exemplary Award recipients to be honored August 16, 2018 in Sugarland, Texas, at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute Conference.
Best Practices: Award winners exemplify the highest standards of achievement in the field of employee education and outreach in the area of traffic safety and driver behavior. Award recipients programs can serve as models or standards of comparison for Texas employers developing or reviewing their own workplace traffic safety programs.
Information: For more information on this award or the Our Driving Concern program, contact Lisa Robinson, CFLE, Sr. Program Manager at [email protected] or at 512-466-7383.
The National Safety Council’s Our Driving Concern: Texas Employer Safety Program urges companies to take advantage of this opportunity to encourage employers to adopt positive driving behaviors and address behaviors that cause injury, death, and costs for the employer.
