Greetings!
Love makes the world go 'round. Love is a many-splendored thing. Isn't Love grand?
Valentine's Day is a day for spreading love! Show someone you care by telling him or her to wear a safety belt. And then don't forget the chocolate and dinner out! |
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Nebraska Engineering makes the Gold Honor Roll! |
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 Nebraska Engineering recently completed their Honor Roll Observations. Their project was called "Snickers for Seatbelts". They offered Snickers candy bars to anyone wearing a safety belt when they arrived at the Nebraska Engineering parking lot.
Their Safety Coordinator, Tim Ashman, received their Gold Honor Roll certificate from Rick Sheehy, Nebraska's Lieutenant Governor. |
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The UN publishes a Road Safety Manual |
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The rest of the world is taking a look at Road Safety! The UN put out a Road Safety Manual in February 2009, saying that "Road traffic injuries are a major public health problem and a leading cause of death and injury around the world. Approximately 1.2 million people are killed each year in road crashes worldwide, with up to 50 million more injured."
Just think of where worldwide resources could be spent if traffic injuries were eliminated.
Here's an exerpt from the UN Road Safety Manual that explains how seat belts work.
"Seatbelts and Child restraints are Secondary safety devices and are primarily designed to prevent or minimize injury to a vehicle occupant when a crash has occurred. Seat-belts and child restraints thus:
- reduce the risk of contact with the interior of the vehicle or reduce the severity or injuries if this occurs;
- distribute the forces of a crash over the strongest parts of the human body;
- prevent the occupant from being ejected from the vehicle in an impact;
- prevent injury to other occupants (for example in a frontal, crash, unbelted rear-seated passengers can be catapulted forward and hit other occupants).
A belted occupant will be kept in their seat and thus will reduce speed at the same rate as the car, so that the mechanical energy to which the body is exposed will be greatly reduced."
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