Driving: Dangers of Cell Phone Use While Driving

With 35 percent of work-related fatalities every year attributed to motor vehicle use, employers need to develop policies regarding their employees’ use of cell phones while driving. This video training presents research indicating the higher frequency of traffic accidents when drivers are using cell phones and the unique distractions cell phones present.

Viewers learn about civil and criminal liability for accidents related to cell phone use while driving. Various types of company policies related to cell phone use while driving are discussed. It also focuses on educating employees about a company’s policies with regard to cell phone use while driving. Viewers learn how to modify their driving behavior to adapt to a company’s cell phone use policy and, perhaps, even adopt it as their personal policy.

This video emphasizes how distractions posed by using cell phone while driving present serious dangers to the driver and members of the public, and how company policies prohibiting cell phone use while driving are necessary and do not affect employee productivity. This video should be viewed by anyone who drives in the course of their employment.

Employees who drive in the course of their work

• The Dangers of Cell Phone Use While Driving
• Research
• Cell Phone Law
• Employer Policies