Impact of Behavior-Based Safety Techniques on Commercial Motor Vehicle Drivers (2007) / Chapter Skim
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Method The main tool for collecting information on fleet safety managers' opinions on BBS techniques was a survey. The survey was distributed to safety managers through several different methods, including (1)
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25 structure was simple and lent itself to a non-technical discussion of specific management practices. The focus groups included safety managers who have tried various specific BBS techniques and who were willing to provide case-study information on their experiences for the project report.
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"moderately strong." These ratings make intuitive sense as fleet safety managers are primarily responsible for addressing the on-road safety of their employees. Support for this contention is found below.
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27 shows the different OBSM devices used by respondents and what safety-critical behaviors these devices observe and record. As can be seen in Table 2, most OBSM devices are used to track the speed and braking behaviors of drivers.
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on the specific behavioral management technique. These follow-up questions concerned (1)
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29 memo/letter, and 24.4% via public display (note the sum does not equal 100% as respondents could select more than one choice)
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behaviors by the frequency of sessions as indicated by survey respondents. As can be seen in Table 7, effectiveness generally decreases as the training and education sessions become less frequent, with the exception of a rise for annual training.
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31 potential benefits of process-based measures, (3) outcomebased measures are much easier and less time consuming to assess than process-based measures, and (4)
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Training/Coaching Experienced Drivers Question 35 asked respondents to select five driving or non-driving behaviors they focus on the most when using refresher training/coaching with experienced drivers. Table 14 shows the percentages for the five most important driving and non-driving behaviors while refresher training/coaching experienced drivers.
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33 checklists are somewhat different. Employee support and ownership has been positive so far.
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implement BBS program (no data could be found to support this claim) ; however, it's also possible these types of CMV operations were over-sampled in the synthesis.
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