Distracted Driving Policies and the Transportation Industry

This Resource Is From Drop It And Drive – Education, Tools & Resources.

These workplace safety tools were produced by the Canadian Coalition on Distracted Driving (CCDD), an initiative of the Traffic Injury Research Foundation (TIRF), Drop It And Drive® (DIAD) and The Co-operators.

Distracted Driving Policies & the Transportation Industry: Employers in the trucking industry recognize their critical role in prioritizing strategies to prevent distracted driving among their employees and protect them from other distracted drivers on the road. The business case for employers compares the costs of prevention activities to the costs of crashes immediately following their occurrence, as well as in the short-term and longer-term. This fact sheet describes the potential impact of distracted driving collisions on employers; the full business case will be published in early 2020.