DUI related incidents cost California businesses $2.5 billion annually. These costs include higher health/life insurance, lost productivity, higher recruitment and retraining expenses, worker compensation, sick leave, motor vehicle insurance and legal cost.
Alcohol-related motor vehicle crashes kill someone every 31 minutes and an alcohol –related injury crash injures someone every two minutes (NHTSA 2006)
During 2005, 16,885 people in the U.S. died in alcohol-related motor vehicle crashes, representing 39% of all traffic-related deaths (NHTSA 2006).
In 2005, nearly 1.4 million drivers were arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol or narcotics (Department of Justice 2005). That’s less than one percent of the 159 million self-reported episodes of alcohol–impaired driving among U.S. adults each year (Quinlan et al. 2005)
DUI affects people from all walks of life from business professionals, teachers, lawyers, doctors, celebrities to politicians. These arrests frequently headline international news. The stir associated with a DUI arrest or collision can devastating to ones life and career, yet are 100% preventable.
Companies and organizations are in need of a DUI prevention and safe ride program they can offer to their staff members to ensure the safety of employees, stakeholders, families and the community.
Safe Ride Solutions provides companies with a proactive tool to prevent DUI incidents. Companies can no longer afford to consider DUI an “off the job problem.” The employer is often the one who will feel the effect of an employee’s DUI incident in the form of higher healthcare cost, higher insurance premiums and lost productivity.
Safe Ride Solutions can help improve the safety of your staff members by providing a customized program to fit the needs of your company or organization. Safe Ride Solutions corporate services include:
- 7/24 Nationwide Safe Ride Services
- DUI prevention training
- Professional Off-Duty Law Enforcement Drivers
- Safe Ride Drivers for Corporate events or company functions
- Safe Ride Solutions Membership can be included in employee benefit package
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