SAFE AND SECURE: A MOTIVATIONAL PROGRAM FOR MOTOR VEHICLE OCCUPANT RESTRAINT USE FOR THE TRAUMA PROFESSIONAL

It is through a concerted effort that public advocacy for the use of motor vehicle occupant protection (safety belts, automatic protection, child safety seats) may be achieved. The arrangement of the chapters of this handbook serve as a step-by-step manual providing an issue statement, outlining how to obtain hospital support for this effort, how to educate the hospital staff and why the issue is so important. In addition, this handbook will acquaint the presentor with how to approach and educate small groups of health providers and how to facilitate community outreach through civic organizations. Methods of utilizing all forms of local mass media are presented in a supplement to this handbook entitled "ATS Media Presentors Guide." Presentation ideas have been provided for your use, if desired. This handbook is a guide to help get your program effort underway. It is not intended to be all inclusive, and the American Trauma Society hopes the information that follows will spur creative program development.

• Corporate Authors:

  National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  American Trauma Society

  875 North Michigan Avenue
  Chicago, IL  United States  60611
• Publication Date: 1985

Media Info

• Pagination: 37 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Child restraint systems; Communities; Handbooks; Hospitals; Manual safety belts; Mass media; Motivation; Restraint systems; Safety education; Utilization
• Old TRIS Terms: Occupant restraint
• Subject Areas: Education and Training; Highways; Research; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00452201
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Report/Paper Numbers: HS-806 802
• Files: HSL, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Jan 31 1986 12:00AM