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This Leader’s Guide is designed to help you conduct a successful safety presentation.

This Guide includes the following material:

Program Overview: This is a summary of the video program content. If the program

content is discussed before the video is presented, the entire program will be more

meaningful and successful.

Preparing for and Conducting the Presentation: This information will help you prepare

the training setting, help you relate the program to your specific work situation, and provide

objectives for focusing your presentation.

Introduction

Hang Up and Drive features Jacy Good and her fiancée, Steve Johnson, recounting the

tragic crash that killed her parents, as a result of another driver using his cell phone. The

program begins with Steve telling the story of how he first learned of the crash that Jacy

had been involved in.

Life Hanging in the Balance

Jacy and Steve recount how Jacy’s life hung in the balance during the first days of

hospitalization. She had multiple serious injuries, including brain damage. Two months after

the crash, she still didn’t comprehend what had happened to her. It took months of

rehabilitation to re-learn basic skills. Three months after the crash, she took her first step. It

were driving,

a semi

-trailer was approaching from the other direction. At an intersection

they were approaching, a young man driving a van was on his cell phone. He pulled into

the intersection in front of the truck, which swerved to miss the van, but the truck crashed

head on into Jacy’s car. Her parents died instantly.

Ona Mission to Reduce Cell Phone Use While Driving

After Jacy learned the details of her crash, she began passionately advocating for stronger

laws to prevent the use of cell phones while driving. She appeared on numerous television

programs, she was invited to the United Nations for a presentation and she appeared on

the Oprah Winfrey show. She has tirelessly

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spread the message of “Hang Up

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both on and off the job. That’s 100 people per day!

Multi-tasking and Texting While Driving

Eating, drinking and talking on the phone, and worse of all texting, are all examples of

multitasking while driving. When brains are overloaded by two tasks that require our brain’s

University of Utah study found that drivers texting were eight times more likely to get in a

crash.

Even scarier, a recent Virginia Tech study showed that truck drivers who were texting were

23 times more likely to be involved in a serious incident such as a near miss, drifting from

their lane, or a crash, than drivers who were focused on driving.

Another study by Clemson University showed that drivers who were texting spent 10

percent of their time out of their traffic lane. Several studies show that a driver that’s

texting typically take their eyes off the road for up to 5 seconds at a time. In five seconds,

a vehicle going 60 miles per hour travels 440 feet, nearly the length of one and a half

football fields. During that 440 feet, the operator of that vehicle is driving virtually blind.

Research presented by the National Safety Council reveals that while driving, our eyes

normally scan back and forth, but on the phone our eyes stop scanning left and right. In

fact, drivers with inattention blindness don’t see nearly 50 percent of what they should be

seeing ahead of them. This “blindness” is a major reason why drivers run stop signs or red

lights, miss exits or drift out of their traffic lanes.

Conclusion

Jacy and Steve remind viewers how many lives are devastated and forever changed by

preventable crashes like the one she was involved in.

The most recent numbers show that in a year’s time, over 5,500 people are killed because

Jacy concludes with this statement: So when you realize that one accident can affect so

many people and these accidents are happening all around us, every day, you realize

that if people don’t change the way they drive, sooner or later this issue is going to

and good climate control.

Check the seating arrangement and the audiovisual equipment to ensure that all

participants will be able to see and hear the presentation. If extension cords are

to be used, secure them in such a way that they won’t become a tripping hazard.

Begin the meeting by welcoming the participants. Introduce yourself and give

each person the opportunity to become acquainted if there are new people

joining the training session.

Make everyone aware of the importance your organization places on protecting

employee’s health and safety and how everyone must be an active member of

the safety team.

4. Take specific steps to avoid cell phone use while driving that will start to

5. Recognize that each of us is responsible for our safe driving behavior.

Next, introduce the video and play it without interruption.

After the video is finished, you can tailor discussions to your specific situation, or

refer to the Discussion Ideas section below.

After the discussion, give a copy of the quiz included in this Guide to each

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Maintain copies of an attendance record and each participant's quiz as written

documentation of the training.

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Circle the letter or letters for each correct answer.