The Center for Health and Safety Culture will continue to support efforts in Clackamas County to apply the Center’s Positive Culture Framework to grow a positive traffic safety culture through training and guide service. Sponsor: Clackamas County Department of Transportation Start Date: 08/20/2021 End Date: 12/31/2024 PI: Otto
ParentingMontana.org
ParentingMontana.org strengthens social and emotional skills of parents and their children contributing to healthy, successful lives and reductions in risky behaviors.
Together for Life - Utah
Together for Life Utah is increasing seat belt use in Box Elder, Cache, Carbon, Iron, San Juan, Sanpete, Sevier, Tooele, and Uintah Counties.
Washakie County Social Norms Marketing Campaign
A social norms marketing campaign for reducing underage drinking among high school students in Washakie County, WY.
The Role of Research in the Development of Effective Strategies
We develop strategies that transform culture to improve health and safety in organizations and communities. The development of these strategies is based on scientific research to ensure they are valid and effective.
Given the diversity of communities, there are rarely existing solutions that fit the unique culture of a community. Instead, efforts to improve health and safety in a community need to begin with research to understand the local culture and analyze its effect on behavior.
Our research is designed in partnership with the communities we serve to ensure we are addressing the social issues that are most important to them. Such partnerships ensure that the strategies we propose from this research are relevant and supported by these communities.
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Support Development of Statewide Survey
The Center for Health and Safety Culture continued to work with Washington Traffic Safety Commission to address traffic safety in the State of Washington. This phase of work included developing a survey to assess traffic safety behaviors and beliefs that will support efforts by program managers in implementing effective strategies and countermeasures to reduce serious […]
Target Zero Manager Training and Guide
The Center for Health and Safety Culture worked with the Washington Traffic Safety Commission to provide onsite training and guide service to the Target Zero Manager and TZM program manager. Sponsor: Washington Traffic Safety Commission Start Date: 06/15/2021 End Date: 09/30/2021 PI: Otto
Support the Collection of Data on Emotional Intelligence
The Center for Health and Safety Culture continued to work with Washington Traffic Safety Commission to address traffic safety in the State of Washington. This phase of work included expanding research on social and emotional competence and traffic safety. Sponsor: Washington Traffic Safety Commission Start Date: 04/27/2021 End Date: 09/30/2021 PI: Otto
Resources and Tools to Reduce Multiple Risky Driving Behaviors
The Center for Health and Safety Culture will seek to address traffic impulsivity and the underlying beliefs and behaviors of individuals engaging in multiple risky driving behaviors by creating and testing a virtual intervention designed to reach drivers who engage in multiple risky driving behaviors to improve traffic safety. This research project is a part of the Traffic Safety Culture Pooled Fund Program. Sponsor: Montana Department of Transportation Start Date: 03/26/2021 End Date: […]
A Review of Methods to Change Beliefs
The Center for Health and Safety Culture will conduct a narrative literature review to understand how belief change can result in changed behaviors. Based on the literature review, the research team will develop a resource to guide stakeholders in developing and implementing effective strategies to change beliefs that define traffic safety culture and influence road […]
Developing a Survey to Measure the Culture of Social Connectedness in Colorado
The Center for Health and Safety Culture partnered with Illuminate Colorado to develop a survey to measure the behaviors and beliefs about social connectedness as it relates to providing informal support for families – especially families with young children. Sponsor: Illuminate Colorado Start Date: 11/15/2020 End Date: 12/31/2021 PI: McMahill and Otto
WTSC Workplace Distracted Driving
The Center for Health and Safety Culture implemented and evaluated a culture-based intervention to address distracted driving in the workplace consistent with Washington state laws. The main goal was to transform traffic safety culture within workplaces around the Target Zero priority of distracted driving, resulting in a workplace transformation that would embrace the values and […]
Next Steps to Support Efforts to Grow a Positive Traffic Safety Culture
The Center for Health and Safety Culture partnered with the Washington Traffic Safety Commission to grow a positive traffic safety culture in Washington State. The Center conducted formative research to inform the development of tools to promote best practices among parents as their children learn to drive, revised and presented the Center’s Positive Culture Framework […]
Measuring the Culture of Protective Behaviors to Reduce the Spread of COVID-19
The Center for Health and Safety Culture identified key beliefs and quantified their influence on decisions about protective behaviors like social distancing to reduce the spread of COVID-19. Sponsor: Montana State University Start Date: 07/01/2020 End Date: 12/31/2020 PI: Finley
Washington Traffic Safety Commission Training and Guidance FY21
The Center for Health and Safety Culture continued to work with Washington Traffic Safety Commission to address traffic safety in the State of Washington. This phase of work included the analysis and recommendations based on the 2019 Parent Traffic Safety Survey, developed and provided training and ongoing technical support to the Commission’s Program Managers and supported a […]
Traffic Safety Culture Transportation Pooled Fund (TSC TPF) Phase 2 Support
The Center serves as the support agency to the second TSC-TPF program on Traffic Safety Culture. The program represents a group of DOTs and/or other organizations with a vested interest in bolstering the concept and understanding of “culture” in traffic safety while supporting the “Toward Zero Deaths (TZD)” safety initiative. TSC-TPF was established by a group of U.S. states […]