Overview of Package


Driving requires all our focus. Situations we can find on the road have specific risks, and using mobile phone affects them in different ways. It has been found to be one of the main distractors impairing driving. This Tool Box Talk explores the danger of mobile phone use and the ways we can minimise our distraction from it.

Tool Box Talks are an effective and cost-efficient way to communicate information and knowledge about driving safety, health and safety, and operational issues within a workplace. A Tool Box Talk should ideally take approximately 15-20 minutes. This Tool Box Talk Package is designed to provide Team Leaders/Managers and Facilitators with the required resources and information to conduct a tool box safety talk about dangers of mobile phone use when while driving, to a group of employees within the organisation.

The package contains:

  • A generic overview of Tool Box Talk Discussion including a step by step process to assist team leaders/managers and facilitators to lead a tool box talk discussion
  • Aid for the promotion of discussion
  • Topic background information and fact sheet
  • Discussion prompt sheet
  • Participant attendance record sheet
  • Participant self-assessment sheet
  • Discussion review sheet
  • Mobile phone use when driving risks when driving posters
  • Supporting PowerPoint slides
  • Video

Author Acknowledgement

This campaign has also been developed in collaboration with Jerome Carslake (NRSPP), Jennifer Rivera-Gonzalez (MUARC), Kyla Fantin (NRSPP Swinburne Intern 2021/22) and Tim Roberts (FleetStrategy).

References

  • National Road Safety Partnership Program, “NRSPP Quick Fact: Mobile Use,” 2016.[Online]. Available: https://www.nrspp.org.au/resources/nrspp-quick-fact-mobile-use/.[Accessed 2021].
  • Transport Accident Commission, “Distracted Driving – The facts: Distractions and driving,” [Online]. Available: https://www.tac.vic.gov.au/road-safety/staying-safe/distracted-driving?tab=2. [Accessed 2021].
  • N. Phuksuksakul, K. Kanitpong and S. Chantranuwathana, “Factors affecting behavior of mobile phone use while driving and effect of mobile phone use on driving performance,” Accident Analysis and Prevention, no. 151, 2021.
  • O. Oviedo-Trespalacios, M. Haque, M. King and S. Washington, ““Mate! I’m running 10 min late”: An investigation into the self-regulation of mobile phone tasks while driving,” Accident Analysis and Prevention, no. 122, pp. 134-142, 2019.
  • F. Kaviani, K. L. Young, B. Robards and S. Koppel, “Understanding the deterrent impact formal and informal sanctions have on illegal smartphone use while driving,” vol. 145, p. 105706, 2020.
  • National Road Safety Partnership, “NRSPP Fact Sheet: Australian Laws Governing The Use Of Mobile Phones In Vehicle,” 2016. [Online]. Available: https://www.nrspp.org.au/resources/fact-sheet-australian-law-governing-the-use-of-mobile-phones-in-vehicle/. [Accessed 2021].
  • F. Kaviani, K. L. Young, B. Robards and S. Koppel, “Nomophobia and self-reported smartphone use while driving: An investigation into whether nomophobia can increase the likelihood of illegal smartphone use while driving,” vol. 74, pp. 212-224, 2020.
  • New South Wales Government, “Mobile Phone Detection Cameras,” 2021. [Online]. Available:https://roadsafety.transport.nsw.gov.au/stayingsafe/mobilephones/technology.html. [Accessed 2021].
  • Victoria State Government, “New Road Safety Camera Technology to Save Lives,” 2021. [Online]. Available: https://www.camerassavelives.vic.gov.au/new-road-safety-camera-technology-to-save-lives.
  • Transport Accident Commission, “Distracted Driving – ‘Do not disturb’ while driving,” [Online]. Available: https://www.tac.vic.gov.au/road-safety/staying-safe/distracted-driving?tab=2. [Accessed 2021].

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