Automotive seat belt use can be achieved. Paper presented at the SAE national combined farm construction and industrial machinery, powerplant, and transportation meetings Milwaukee, Wisconsin, September 9-12, 1968.

It is one thing for an engineer to design the safest vehicle and equip it with the most effective restraint system. It is quite another thing to have the vehicle occupant use it to lengthen his own life. This paper explains the process one segment of a large government agency has successfully used to get approximately 88% use of the restraint system on the job and a slightly lower percentage of use by employee's families in the family car. Program emphasis has been on the 3-point lap/shoulder belt for maximum head protection