Video Library: Driving Safety

City Driving
Distracted Driving: At What Cost
DOT General Awareness: Handling Transporting Haz Mat Safely
DOT Haz Mat Security Awareness
Driving in Bad Weather
Hazard Perception
Taffic Control: What Works
Why Do We Drive The Way We Do?

• City Driving
  #CI015 (17 min. 1990)
  Driving Safety
  Teaches professional truck drivers how to handle the special hazards of city driving. Designed for straight truck and tractor-trailer drivers. Covers turns and intersections, traffic congestion, hazard analysis, customer service, and security.
• Distracted Driving: At What Cost
  #DE000—VHS #DE001—DVD (16 min. 2006)
  Driving Safety
  The video includes a two car crash that is investigated and shows how each driver was distracted leading up to the crash. It also includes an interview with a woman who was severely injured in a crash caused by a distracting cell phone conversation. Her parents also talk about how their entire family's lives were changed by the crash.
• DOT General Awareness: Handling Transporting Haz Mat Safely
  #DO011 DVD (17 min. 2003)
  Driving Safety
  Program focuses on employees who handle hazardous materials. The program reviews a number of topics aimed at making employees more aware of situations in which they may encounter hazardous chemicals, the nature of the hazards the chemicals may have, and the issue of taking appropriate security measures when dealing with hazardous materials that the DOT has added to the regulation.
• DOT Haz Mat Security Awareness
  #DO010 DVD (13 min. 2004)
  Driving Safety
  Focuses on helping employers provide their employees with the security awareness portion of this training, giving employees an awareness of the security risks associated with transporting hazardous materials. Areas covered in this program are:
  • DOT HAZMAT security requirements
  • security risks associated with transporting hazardous materials
  • methods that have been designed to enhance transportation security
  • how to recognize security risks
  • responding to possible security threats
• Driving in Bad Weather
  #DR006 (8 min. 1994)
  Driving Safety
  Newscast-style presentation dramatizes the blinding effects of fog, dust, smoke, rain, snow and ice. Stresses the need to choose safe speeds for adverse weather conditions and explains when it is best to get off the road. Video includes tips on vehicle maintenance that can help drivers prepare for bad weather.
• Hazard Perception
  #HA018 (13 min. 1990)
  Driving Safety
  Drivers have to recognize a hazard before they can avoid it. Emphasizes hazard perception—a key component of defensive driving. Includes factors affecting hazard perception and everyday driving obstacles faced by professional truck drivers. Produced by the American Trucking Association.
• Taffic Control: What Works
  #TF002 (14 min. 1996)
  Traffic
  The objective of this video, produced by the Minnesota Local Road Research Board, is to offer information on how public officials develop reasonable, research-based traffic control strategies and choose traffic control devices. Factors such as traffic volume, sight distance and accident histories are discussed.
• Why Do We Drive The Way We Do?
  #DR101 DVD (13 min. 2005)
  Driving Safety
  This program is designed to help you conduct a training session to ensure that employees recognize that they are professional drivers and need to operate vehicles with professional attitudes and professional defensive driving skills. Upon completion of the program, participants will be able to:
  • recognize that they are professional drivers,
  • make driving decisions from a professional point of view,
  • identify the driving risks they take and the rewards they expect to get by taking those risks,
  • understand that unsafe driving can result from both action and inaction,
  • recognize the conscious and unconscious risks they take, and
  • avoid accidents by using defensive driving skills.