Think safety and drive safely.
That's the message the Singapore Oxygen Air Liquide or SOXAL and
the Traffic Police want to drive home during this year's heavy
vehicle road safety campaign.
The company, which has a fleet of 100 heavy vehicles, says it has
been holding a series of in-house competitions starting
2008.
This includes selecting the safest driver as well as drilling in
the message to not speed.
And it has worked.
The number of heavy vehicle incidents in SOXAL has drop from 10.7
road incidents per million kilometre travelled in 2008, to 5.8 this
year.
Mr Woo Siew Wah, Managing Director of SOXAL explains why the series
worked.
"We want to employees to get closer to the police. I think in the
past, we tend to be like police and thief, you catch people. We
don't want that. We want it to be fun. It's important to
participate and when you participate, people will do it
willingly."
According to the traffic police, there were more than 120 fatal
accidents in the first nine months of 2009, compared to more than
160 for the whole of last year.
Similarly, the number of deaths resulting from the accidents has
also dropped from about 170 last year, to the current 130.
--938Live