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Specific Activities to Implement the National Strategy

• The President
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• Business
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• Private Citizens

Reporting and Recognition

Funding

Executive Order

Federal Agencies

All Federal agencies will:

• Implement the President's Executive Order which directs all agencies to require on-the-job seat belt use for all Federal employees; directs the Department of Defense (DOD) and the National Park Service to institute programs and policies to increase seat belt use on DOD installations and in national park areas; encourages Tribal Governments to adopt programs and policies for highways on Tribal lands; and encourages government contractors, subcontractors, and grantees to institute on-the-job seat belt use programs and policies for their employees

• Provide information annually to the Department of Transportation on seat belt use rates and statistics of crashes, injuries, and related costs involving Federal employees

• Promote proper seat belt and child safety seat use in regular activities with constituents

Some Departments will do more:

Secretary of Transportation

• Establish seat belt and child safety seat use as a top DOT priority

• Direct all DOT modes to promote seat belt and child safety seat use with constituents

• Promote seat belt and child safety seat use in speeches and through media events

• Conduct a public/private round table to enlist corporate America's support

• Praise states, such as the District of Columbia, when they enact new primary seat belt laws

• Develop a model employee program of education, awareness, and data collection and transfer the model program to other agencies

• Conduct national and regional Moving Kids Safely conferences to develop and strengthen intermodal and public/private partnerships

• Promote seat belt and child safety seat use with constituents and partner organizations

• Provide assistance to states seeking to enact or strengthen seat belt and child passenger safety legislation

• Provide financial support and technical assistance to states to support their efforts to actively and visibly enforce their seat belt and child passenger safety laws through expanded special traffic enforcement programs (STEP)

• Encourage increased participation by private and nonprofit partners to work with the agency, or as part of a coalition, to increase seat belt and child safety seat use

• Assist states to link crash, cost, and injury data

• Work with the Network of Employers for Traffic Safety (NETS) program and other employer groups to encourage additional employers to adopt seat belt use policies and programs

• Participate in building 200 additional Safe Communities (local programs that reduce fatalities, injuries, and associated costs) annually

Department of Defense

• Adopt and actively enforce seat belt use policies on DOD installations

• Provide information annually to the Department of Transportation on seat belt use rates and statistics of crashes, injuries, and related costs involving occupants of motor vehicles driven on DOD installations

• Expand base safety officer training to include child safety seat education and use programs

Department of Education

• Encourage health and safety officials in school districts to include the proper use of seat belts and child restraint systems in their health and wellness programs

• Work with NHTSA to encourage the development and adoption of a traffic safety curriculum for grades K-12 which stresses proper seat belt and child safety seat use

• Encourage school districts to adopt policies concerning seat belt and child safety seat use when transporting children

Department of Health and Human Services

• Continue child safety seat training through public health offices, emphasizing proper restraint use and appropriate restraint systems (including seat belts and infant, toddler and booster seats)

• Continue to include child passenger safety education as part of the Healthy Child Care America Campaign for child care providers

• Promote seat belt and child safety seat use through all Maternal and Child Health programs

• Encourage adults, especially older persons, to wear seat belts properly at all times

• Promote passenger protection initiatives through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Safe America program

• Promote child safety seat use and educate parents through the Head Start program

Department of Interior

• Adopt and actively enforce seat belt use policies in national park areas

• Provide information annually to the Department of Transportation on seat belt use rates and statistics of crashes, injuries, and related costs involving occupants of motor vehicles driven in national park areas

• Encourage Tribal Governments to adopt and actively enforce mandatory seat belt and child safety seat use laws

• Implement and expand seat belt and child safety seat education programs and training on Tribal lands

Department of Justice

• Encourage active and highly visible enforcement of seat belt and child safety seat laws as part of community policing efforts

• Include seat belt and child safety seat enforcement projects in DOJ-funded programs

Department of Labor

• Include seat belt use in performance-based workplace safety and health programs