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Issue: # 200816 June 30, 2008
Click It--Don't Risk It Chronicle
In This Issue
Off-the-Job Safety includes Safety Belts
Steering Committe Meets
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Greetings!
Summer brings car travel, and car travel brings the need for safety belt awareness. While gas prices are soaring, using your belt is still free.  And while a belt is not a guarantee of never crashing, it's still the single best means of reducing injuries and deaths in crashes.  So buckle up!  It's free!
Off-the-Job Safety includes Safety Belts
The speaker at the June Council breakfast was Lynn Beiswanger from Lynn Beiswangerthe Basin Electric Power Cooperative in Mandan, ND.  His presentation focused on off-the-job safety.  Not surprisingly, safety belt use was a main topic.   
 
Basin Electric relies heavily on their trained employees and is committed to keeping those employees safe and well both on and off the job.  They offer training to their employees on using fire extinguishers and provide safety goggles for personal use.  They emphasize that safety belts take just a few seconds to put on; they're already in the vast majority of automotive equipment, and they're the single best way to reduce injury and deaths in motor vehicle crashes.  
 
Does your company have an off-the-job safety program?  Be sure that safety belts have a prominent place in that education. .

 


Steering Committee Meets
The Click It Steering Committee was honored at the June Safety Council breakfast.  Thanks to the members of the steering committee, who assist with establishing some of our campaigns and our efforts to increase safety belt use in Nebraska.steering committee
 
Pictured are (left to right) Cherie Ferber (Click It), Fred Zwonechek (Nebraska Office of Highway Safety), Gordon Brooks (Nebraska Safety Center), and Larry Kruse (Liberty Mutual Group).  John Perry (Federal Highway Administration) joined us after the picture was taken.
 
Thank you!  And also sincere thanks to all of you who are making efforts to increase safety belt usage in Nebraska.  If you are interested in assisting with the steering committee please contact us at cidri@safenebraska.org.
The "Click It Chronicle," our Click It Campaign e-letter, published whenever there is news, is available to all those interested in increasing safety belt usage.  Please share this information freely. Take the information, copy to friends, businesses and organizations with the same concerns.  Using the information provided will help reduce the needless fatalities and injuries on our highways and the associated costs. To subscribe to this e-letter, join the coalition, or be removed from the list, contact the Click It Team at cidri@safenebraska.org.