Share Your Workplace Best Practices
Do you have a workplace-related safety story you would like to share? Please take a moment to tell us about your positive or negative experience on the roadways of Virginia. Have you or a colleague been involved in a crash? Are you here today because of your safety belt use? Do you know of a particularly heartwarming or wrenching story that you would like to share?
Click to the right to upload your story and a photograph. Following a review by DRIVE SMART staff, entries will be posted to this page. We are providing the opportunity for you to share your experience so that others might learn from you and, in turn, make positive changes to their driving behaviors.
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Your Best Practices
A Story About Persistence
John Meola
Richmond, VA
As a safety professional, it seemed natural to bring my work home, particularly when my 2 teenage daughters became of driving age. I recall preaching to them about the importance of using Daytime Running Lights, in the days before they were “automatic”. They had to pull the light switch, and it must have been a huge nuisance to them. They said it was geeky and nerdy, etc., but with “persistence” they started to do it. I almost fell off my chair when the youngest came home one day and she announced “Hey Dad, those lights really work!” She explained how she had a close call in a parking lot and apparently the lights did their job, and she understood it.
From that day, they have been “true believers”. It was reassuring to know they were listening to at least some of the “nerdy” safety advice coming from their parents.
Battle of the Belts
Florida Highway Patrol
Florida
The Florida Highway Patrol used the natural rivalry of schools to promote friendly competition. Students at each school created campaigns, slogans, and promotional programs to improve their seatbelt compliance. Awards were given for the school with the best overall compliance rate and the most improved compliance rate.