Safety Focus on Driving - Are You at Risk?

Safe driving is your responsibility.

This month is "Kellogg Sales Drive Safely Awareness Month" and our company is teaming up with Network Employers for Traffic Safety (NETS) to educate its employees about safe driving practices and to help them make both a personal and professional commitment to safe, responsible driving.

SeniorK wants to share this information with retirees, too.

For most of us driving is an everyday activity, but it is a serious responsibility and deserves our full, undivided attention to ensure that we get ourselves and our families to our destinations and back safely.
"The 10 Steps to
Responsible Driving"
  1. Plan your route
    2.
  2. Maintain your vehicle
    3.
  3. Focus your attention
    4.
  4. Minimize your distractions
    5.
  5. Know your surroundings
    6.
  6. Share your space
    7.
  7. Watch your speed
    8.
  8. Keep your distance
    9.
  9. Signal your intention
    10.
  10. Always wear your seat belt
    11.
To help us focus on what matters most, NETS has compiled "10 Steps to Responsible Driving". The steps provide a strategy to minimize driving risks.

Distractions - chatty passengers, traffic jams, highway construction, ringing cell phones and unfamiliar roads - can pull your attention from the road. But you can counter any distractions with safe driving practices that will keep you alert and focused.

Buckling your seat belt and ensuring that all your passengers are buckled up is one of the single most effective things you can do to keep yourself and everyone in your car safe while on the road.

Be aware of your risk when driving. You can't control how other people drive on the road, but you can be conscious of them and drive defensively by relying on your own skills, knowledge, and experience.

You may already be a safe and alert driver, but you can still learn new tips to keep yourself and your loved one safe when traveling on the busy highways.

"Driving is a continual learning process, and you may be reminded of something that could save your life or the life of someone else. Informed drivers make better decisions that keep roads safer," says Nancy Valente, manager, Safety, at Kellogg.





FYI...


Have you ever wondered why people seem to have more trouble with driving as they get older?

Get some answers from our August 2004 Retiree Tip, Are Older Drivers at Risk?
Do you know your risk?
  • Every 5 seconds a crash occurs
  • Every 7 seconds a crash causing property damage occurs.
  • Every 10 seconds there is a traffic-related injury.
  • Every 12 minutes in the United States, someone dies in a traffic crash.
  • Every 31 minutes someone dies in an alcohol-related crash.
  • Every 113 minutes a pedestrian is killed in a traffic crash.
  To learn more about
safe driving, check out:

  • Network of Employers for Traffic Safety


  • National Safety Council


  • National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
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