TEXT VERSION OF SLIDE:
Title: Motor Carrier Safety: A Collaborative Approach to Reducing Motor Carrier
Incidents
Type: Text Slide
Content:
- Problem: How to reduce accidents by Dow's motor
carrier contractors
- Solution: Working collaboratively with a motor
carrier to implement a safety-based performance program to reduce rear-end
collisions
[Includes the Alliance and OSHA logos]
Speaker Notes:
Motor Carrier Safety Case Study: A Collaborative Approach to Reducing Motor
Carrier Incidents (Mar. 2006)
Problem: How to reduce motor carrier accidents involving the transport of
hazardous materials by Dow’s motor carrier contractors.
Solution: Dow worked with one of its motor carriers, Transport Service Company
(TSC), on a pilot project to reduce rear-end collisions involving vehicles from
TSC’s Midland, Michigan terminal. As part of this project, Dow worked with TSC
to apply a safety-based performance program to TSC’s operations. The
safety-based performance program was adapted from Dow’s internal behavior-based
performance work process, under which work groups identify, measure, and
implement measures to change behaviors.
Under the pilot project, TSC’s drivers made observations of near misses on the
road. The data was collected and the observations were posted in the terminal’s
bulletin board and shared with other drivers during safety meetings. A
workgroup of five drivers identified the critical causes of the accidents,
evaluated them, and established a series of measures to prevent rear-end
collisions. The preventive measures were promoted in various ways, including
articles and posters, and were incorporated into TSC’s driver training program.
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