This Resource Is Part Of The What’s On Your Mind? No Distraction Campaign.
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What’s On Your Mind? No Distraction – Part 4
Mindfulness
What is mindfulness? It’s about focusing our attention on tasks at hand, being aware of our thoughts and actions. Part 4 elaborates on how this helps reduce distractions on the road. When we are more aware of our driving thoughts and behaviour, we are less likely to be distracted.
Videos created by Tim Roberts at Fleet Strategy
Author Acknowledgement
This campaign has also been developed in collaboration with Jerome Carslake (NRSPP), Gabrielle Fetalvero (NRSPP Swinburne Intern 2019/20), Kristie Young (MUARC), Tim Roberts (Fleet Strategy), Mark Stephens (Uniting Care Queensland), Stephen Hehir (Australia Post) and Kym Bancroft (Queensland Urban Utilities).
References
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- Young, KL, Osborne, R, Koppel, S, Charlton, JL, Grzebieta, R, Williamson, A, Haworth, N, Woolley, J & Senserrick, T 2019, ‘What contextual and demographic factors predict drivers’ decision to engage in secondary tasks?’, IET Intelligent Transport Systems, pp. 1–6
- Young, KL, Osborne, R, Koppel, S, Charlton, JL, Grzebieta, R, Williamson, A, Haworth, N, Woolley, J & Senserrick 2019, ‘What are Australian drivers doing behind the wheel? An overview of secondary task data from the Australian Naturalistic Driving Study’, Journal of the Australasian College of Road Safety, vol 30 issue 1, pp. 27–33
- Young, KL, Koppel, S, Stephens, AN, Osborne, R, Chambers, R & Hassed, C 2019, ‘Mindfulness predicts driver engagement in distracting activities’, Mindfulness 10, pp. 913–922.
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2019, ‘CDC – Motor Vehicle Safety at Work: Topics: Distracted Driving at Work – NIOSH’, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/motorvehicle/topics/distracteddriving/default.html
- Puddicombe 2014, ‘Can I apply mindfulness to driving’, Headspace, https://www.headspace.com/blog/2014/07/23/applying-mindfulness-to-driving/
- Headspace 2017, ‘What is Mindfulness? – Headspace’, Headspace, https://www.headspace.com/mindfulness
- NRSPP 2016, ‘NRSPP Quick Fact: Driver Distraction’, NRSPP, https://www.nrspp.org.au/resources/nrspp-quick-fact-driver-distraction/
- NRSPP, Isler N & R 2018, ‘NRSPP Webinar: We Drive the way we live – Insights into safer driving at work’, NRSPP, https://www.nrspp.org.au/resources/nrspp-webinar-we-drive-the-way-we-live-insights-into-safer-driving-for-work/
- NRSPP & Kelleher, L 2017, ‘Webinar: Busy Brain Syndrome – The Root Cause of Driver Distraction’, NRSPP, https://www.nrspp.org.au/resources/busy-brain-syndrome-root-cause-driver-distraction/
