Commercial Motor Vehicle Driver Safety Belt Usage (2005) / Chapter Skim
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• Part 2: Functionality. These questions focused on comfort, usability, complaints, and possible improvements for safety belts.
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The first question asked drivers what percentage of the time they wore their safety belts while driving a truck. Because answers could range anywhere from 0% to 100%, they were placed into six categories: 5% or less, 6 to 24%, 25 to 49%, 50 to 74%, 75 to 94% and 95% or greater.
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The second question of this section asked what the biggest complaint about safety belts was for the driver. Approximately 62% of drivers interviewed provided a response to this open-ended question; there were a variety of ‘most significant' complaints listed, and results were placed into 19 separate categories (see Table 8)
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. The first question asked drivers if there were company policies requiring safety belt use: 51% of drivers indicated that there was a policy, while 37% indicated there was none, and 11% were uncertain if there was a safety belt policy or not.
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The second question of this section asked drivers if their company offered driver rewards or positive recognition for wearing their safety belts, or if they offered any educational courses on safety belt use. This was an open-ended question with answers being placed into eight general categories (see Table 12)
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The data for the 20% who were non-users (wore safety belts less than 5% of the time) were isolated, and their demographics were similar to those demographics indicated in these figures.
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