An optimal solution for enhancing ambulance safety : implementing a driver performance feedback and monitoring device in ground emergency medical service vehicles.

Author(s)
Levick, N.R. & Swanson, J.
Year
Abstract

A prospective study was conducted to determine if emergency vehicle driver risk behavior could be improved with an onboard computer-monitoring device, with real time auditory feedback. Data were collected over 18 months from 36 vehicles in a metropolitan EMS group, with >250 drivers. In >1.9 million recorded miles, performance improved from a baseline low of 0.018 miles between penalty counts to a high of 15.8 miles between counts. Seatbelt violations dropped from 13,500 to 4. There was a 20% saving in vehicle maintenance costs within 6 months. This technology demonstrated sustained cost savings in regards to vehicle maintenance as well as minimal retraining of drivers. (Author/publisher)

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20051611 c ST (In: ST 20051611 S) /83 /91 /96 / ITRD E842872
Source

In: Proceedings of the 49th Annual Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine AAAM, Hyatt Regency Cambridge, Boston, Massachusetts, September 12-14, 2005, p. 35-50, 28 ref.

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