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Accident Prevention for Safe Driving

This program focuses on preventing accidents through defensive driving techniques for safe mail transportation. Serious accident analysis, safety advice, and training aim to reduce accident rates and absenteeism. Special emphasis on safe driving of vehicles and tractors.

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Accident Prevention for Safe Driving

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  1. Accident Prevention for Safe Driving CTT Correios de Portugal

  2. Per Sector absence days workable days ACCIDENT ABSENTEEISM RATE (%) Global

  3. Number of accidents 987 ACCIDENTS PER CATEGORY (%) 2005

  4. Safe Driving • Road driving activity plays a relevant part amongst tasks associated to mail transportation and delivery. • Our main type of accidents is related to vehicle driving. • Some actions: • serious accidents analysis • defensive road driving • safe driving of tractors. • Goal: combine business efficiency with safety and accident prevention.

  5. Serious Work and Road Accidents Analysis Systematic analysis of serious accidents to evaluate the different types of causes – primary, direct, indirect. Accident occurrence Safety advices Accident analysis by selected team Report on accident causes Action plan and follow up

  6. Defensive driving for delivery and transportation • Defensive driving actions are distinct according to the types of vehicles: trucks, cars, motorcycles. • Their objective is the workers’ training in driving techniques and public circulation safety. • The programme consists of: • a on the road practical module - in which every trainee is accompanied by an instructor who analyses the driver’s driving techniques and coaches him consequently; • two class sessions on driving good practices, the road legal code and accidents within CTT and in society.

  7. Safe driving of tractors in the Sorting Centre • Guidelines for the use and circulation of the tractors and associated trailers were established, an operations manual was prepared and several workers were trained. • Indications about the maximum length of wagons a UAT (Unit of Aggregated Transport) train should have. Delineation of recommended pathways to use. • A device to control the speed limit was internally developed and installed in the tractors. • Intermittent light has been placed in the external body of all tractors to make them identifiable and visible, in advance and from distance, when in movement.

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