Approximately 1.3 million people die in road traffic crashes every year – more than 3,500 deaths each day – and between 20 and 50 million are injured or disabled. If current trend lines persist, road traffic injuries will become the fifth leading cause of death in the world, resulting in an estimated 2.4 million deaths [...]

Ban Ki-Moon · Cars · Crashes · Decade of Action · safety · Traffic · Traffic crashes · UN · United Nations · WHO · World Health Organization

What does the Waffle House do to smother, cover, chunk, dice, pepper, cap, top and country disruptions that cause most businesses to shut down? According to the restaurant chain’s CEO Walt Ehmer, the recipe for becoming a private sector, continuity leader is pretty simple – “Show Up!” “No matter how bad it was, the first [...]

Continuity · Craig Fugate · Disaster · Elaine Pittman · emergency · emergency management · Emergency Management Magazine · FEMA · International Disaster Conference and Expo · preparedness · safety · Waffle House · Walt Ehmer

Anyone who has ever gone on a diet knows how hard it’s to change a bad habit. Even though changing behavior is hard, it’s not impossible. What social scientists discovered in the effort to promote seat belt use and combat drunk driving was that peer and social pressure played a key role in the widespread [...]

2011 · Angela Patterson Sikes · Bridgestone Firestone · Caleb Diaddigo · car crash · Safe America · safety · Safetyscholars.com · seat belt · teens · texting while driving · YouTube