DRIVING SAFETY - Seatbelt Use
More Than 80 Percent Do, But the Rest Don’t
Seatbelt use throughout the US and Canada keeps improving year after year, but for some reason, almost two in 10 people refuse to buckle up. Label it laziness, stubbornness or ignorance, but that decision has cost 135,000 lives in the US alone since 1980. (Source: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration).
Many employers have strict rules requiring workers to buckle up on the job. If your company or organization lets employees make their own decisions about seatbelt use, you might want to consider some other NHTSA statistics.
Had motor vehicle accident victims been wearing seatbelts, 5.2 million non-fatal injuries would have been prevented within the past 26 years.
The cost savings to US society during that period would have been $913 billion had the fatalities and injuries outlined above been prevented.
According to NHTSA, seatbelt use in the US averaged 82 percent in 2005. In Canada the average is about 88 percent, according to Transport Canada.
Article contributed by Ron Durant, USAF and Atlanta Federal Safety and Health Council.
Seatbelt use throughout the US and Canada keeps improving year after year, but for some reason, almost two in 10 people refuse to buckle up. Label it laziness, stubbornness or ignorance, but that decision has cost 135,000 lives in the US alone since 1980. (Source: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration).
Many employers have strict rules requiring workers to buckle up on the job. If your company or organization lets employees make their own decisions about seatbelt use, you might want to consider some other NHTSA statistics.
Had motor vehicle accident victims been wearing seatbelts, 5.2 million non-fatal injuries would have been prevented within the past 26 years.
The cost savings to US society during that period would have been $913 billion had the fatalities and injuries outlined above been prevented.
According to NHTSA, seatbelt use in the US averaged 82 percent in 2005. In Canada the average is about 88 percent, according to Transport Canada.
Article contributed by Ron Durant, USAF and Atlanta Federal Safety and Health Council.
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