.Have you ever heard of NETS? No not the locked out basketball team or The Network of Executive Women. The NETS I am talking about is the Network of Employers for Traffic Safety. Motor Vehicle collisions are the NUMBER 1 cause of death and injury for employees/worker in the United States.

NETS is dedicated to improving the health and safety of employees, their families and the community by preventing traffic crashes that occur both on- and off-the-job.

October 3 – 7 , 2011 is National Drive Safely Work Work

What are you to help insure your driver are being safer? NETS offers information for you to use with this year’s campaign;

Focus 360°: Getting there safely is everyone’s business.”

Whether we’re the driver, a passenger, a pedestrian or cyclist, there are things we can do in each role to help prevent distracted driving-related incidents. And for anyone willing to set the right example, the opportunities to be safe-driving role models for family and community members are limitless. That’s the premise of this year’s campaign materials and we’re confident you’ll find them to be informative, practical and useful.

Go to the link above for material you can use to develop your own program and “Let’s Be Careful Out There.”

So, where were you when 9/11 occurred? Today’s generation will always remember where they were and what they were doing when this significant terrorist event happened 10 years ago. As a baby-boomer we always heard stories from our parents what they were doing when Pearl Harbor happened. Our generation remembered what they where doing when President Kennedy was shot.  When the Oklahoma Federal Building was bombed and of course when the 9-11 attack happened.

I was working for the National Safety Council, and on my way to Kemper Insurance to meet with their global vice-president of safety, when I got a message from his administrative assistant. I was told that he could not meet with me today due to the events that happened in New York. I was not even aware of anything that had happened. I turned on the news and learned that 2 planes had hit the towers in New York City.

Being a safety person, my first reaction was the safety of the people in the towers. I later learned that Kemper had many people in the twin towers, and they were some of the fortunate ones. They all got out. But for days Kemper did not know who was alive or who had died. Soon after, they put a new notification system in place for their employees in the event something else would happen.

I also learned that a cousin’s son was in the pentagon, just a couple of doors down from the area that was hit. He was not injured. But for 3 days his parents did not know if he was alive or dead.

Americans have always had this mentality that nothing that nothing will ever happen to me.  We are now starting to reconsider that philosophy a little. Pearl Harbor, Oklahoma City, NYC Twin Towers, each generation has their event to remember.  So where were you when…………………..happened?