Health and Safety Booklets

Our health and safety booklets are informative, and provide the necessary information to keep staff and management well aware of their duties and responsibilities. Correct safety on and off the road is an important part of any drivers arsenal of knowledge. Not only can we service you with the relevant traffic fine information, but also with facts that will keep you safe while driving. This is invaluable information that is to be taken very seriously. Please read below to discover statistics and information related to road safety:

  • The low to middle income areas are where over 80% of all road traffic deaths occur. These types of deaths are not only devastating to the family, but they incur massive economic costs on these still-developing economies in the form of hospital fees, roadside cleanup, court fees and so on. Costs incurred (on a per annum basis) are well into the tens of billions.
  • Road safety accidents increase on a yearly basis and despite this; countries continue to ignore it as a serious threat to the national development.
  • There is very small global road safety fund (under ten million Rands) for the middle to low income groups. This is despite a continued increase in road deaths.
  •  If there is no true action plan for road safety, then road investments will continue to put many at risk of either injury or death.
  •  The higher income countries, after many decades of testing and re-testing have created vastly effective road safety measures. Only with the effective placement of  safety measures can the lower income countries have any hope of avoiding the same fate that the richer countries had to first suffer.
  •  Drunken driving remains the number one cause for road accidents and road deaths. Following this is lack of seatbelts and then excessive speed.
  •  A statistic by the World Bank has shown that if vehicle fatality rates are lowered by only 30%, then more than three million lives can be saved and hundreds of millions of injuries prevented.

 

These are the facts, so contact ina@sasm.co.za for further information regarding our health and safety booklets and enjoy a happier, healthier workplace.