Driver Safety
Prepared for
Tony Parker, Commissioner
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Tennessee Department of Correction | <DATE>
Agenda
• Purpose
• End State
• Background
• Methodology
• Issues / Concerns
• Timeline
• Discussion
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Purpose
• Provide training for department employees to ensure driver safety.
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End State
• Lower incidents related to wrecks, call-in reports, speeding tickets and
hit and runs that are related to driving state vehicles.
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Background
• In 2018 there were 899 accidents reported in state government
• 133 of those accidents were TDOC
• In 2019 there have already been 939 accidents reported in state
government
• 119 of those accidents were TDOC
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Background
• There has been an increase of calls related to drivers
• Some accidents that have been reported could have been avoided
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Methodology
• Provide a driver safety course, beginning with high priority areas that will
include:
• How to avoid accidents
• How to report accidents
• New laws and rules driving state vehicles
• Classes will be tracked in Edison that the employee will have to enroll in
• Classes will eventually be added in LMS
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Methodology
• Who currently drives state cars
• Perimeter patrol
• PPO officers
• Blue Car lot
• Enterprise rentals
• ELT/Wardens/DDs, etc.
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Issues/Concerns
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Timeline
• Train all TDOC employees in an one-hour course that will be provided by
General Services and Department of Safety
• Jan 2020
• High priority areas
• Train prisons and community supervision offices as scheduled
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Discussion
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