Tractor-trailer rollover prevention webinars

Led by Nationwide risk management experts, we've recorded three tractor-trailer rollover prevention webinars designed specifically for fleet/safety managers, supervisors, dispatchers, drivers and administrative support personnel interested in increasing their knowledge of fleet/driver safety and developing strategies to help prevent tractor-trailer rollovers.

Tractor-trailer rollovers: Causes and costs

Recorded: September 7, 2016
Length: 58 minutes
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In this webinar, Brian Hammer, Senior Transportation Consultant at Nationwide, addressed the common causes of tractor-trailer rollovers and the problems they can create.

In this session, you'll learn:

• Rural road accident statistics
• Myths and causes of tractor-trailer rollovers
• How management and operational changes, driver training and technology can help prevent rollovers
• Real costs of rollovers
• How rollovers can impact your business and your bottom line

Preventing rollover accidents: Defensive driving

Recorded: September 8, 2016
Length: 32 minutes
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Hosted by Jack Tisdale, Transportation Specialist, this webinar focuses on preventing rollovers with defensive driving.

In this webinar, you'll learn:

• What happens in a rollover
• Factors influencing rollovers
• How defensive driving can help prevent rollovers

Preventing rollover accidents: Stability control systems

Recorded: September 8, 2016
Length: 21 minutes
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This webinar, hosted by Steven Boyle, Occupational Health & Safety Consultant, focuses on reducing rollovers by using stability control systems (OEM or retrofit).

In this session, you’ll learn:

• How Roll Stability Control (RSC) and Electronic Stability Control (ESC) work
• Cost of stability control system versus cost of a rollover incident
• What it’s like to drive with and without a stability control system

Brian Hammer, CDS, MPA Senior Transportation Consultant, Nationwide

• 30 years safety experience commercial truck fleets
• 20 years law enforcement (retired)
• Certified Director of Safety from North American Transportation Management Institute
• ANSI Z-15 Safe Motor Vehicle Operations Committee Member
• Chairperson, Food and Agribusiness Branch, American Society of Safety Engineers
• Past administrator of the Transportation Practice Specialty, American Society of Safety Engineers
• CDL holder with all endorsements
• Authorized OSHA 10 and 30 hour instructor
• University of Iowa – Masters of Public Administration, Agronomy minor

Technical knowledge: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations, DOT/PHMSA hazardous materials instructor, Smith System defensive driving instructor, OSHA warehousing, OSHA power industrial truck (forklift), controlled substance and alcohol awareness instructor

Jack Tisdale, Transportation Specialist, Nationwide

• 30 years safety experience
• NATMI-certified Safety Director Training

Technical knowledge: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations, transportation of hazardous material, drug/alcohol testing, defensive driving, OSHA regulations

Steven Boyle Occupational Health & Safety Consultant, Nationwide

• 25 years safety experience commercial truck fleets
• 10 years experience agricultural commodity transportation
• 15 years experience refined fuel transportation
• Certified Safety Coordinator
• Authorized OSHA 10 and 30 hour instructor
• CDL holder with all endorsements
• Bachelor of Science, Agricultural Engineering

Technical knowledge: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations, DOT/PHMSA hazardous materials instructor, certified HazWoper trainer, defensive driving instructor, OSHA power industrial truck (fork-lift/front end loader), controlled substance and alcohol awareness instructor