title: An evaluation of three corporate strategies for safety belt use promotion.
abstract: Different types of awareness sessions to promote employee safety belt use were evaluated. Across eight different employee safety meetings three dichotomous variables were manipulated: the type of presentation format (lecture vs discussion), the presence or absence of safety belt pledge cards, and the presence or absence of an incentive component. All groups showed a four-fold increase in safety belt use. Five months after the interventions, belt use was still significantly higher than baseline levels. Generalization across employees was demonstrated by a significant increase in safety belt use for those who did not attend the awareness session. The awareness session with a discussion format influenced greater increases in safety belt use than did the lecture-based sessions, but pledge cards and incentives did not increase the impact of these awareness sessions.
mesh_terms: D000063:Accidents, Traffic; D001364:Awareness; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D012201:Reward; D012622:Seat Belts