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Workshops

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Below is a tentative list of workshops for the 2012 Conference. Workshops descriptions will be posted when they become available.

beltAdult Occupant Protection Track

  • Primary Seat Belt Enforcement Legislation
  • Nighttime Belt Enforcement - What's Really Involved
  • 90% Belt Use - What Next?
  • Crash Avoidance Technologies
  • Advanced Occupant Protection Technology

beltBicycle/Motorcycle/Pedestrian Safety

  • Bicycle/Pedestrian Law Enforcement - Stepping up to the Plate
  • Broadening the Base Makes a Fuller Tree! More Approaches to Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety
  • Innovative Strategies to Reduce Motorcycle Crashes
  • Motorcycle Safety Education for Law Enforcement
  • Motorcycle Safety - The Missing Links
  • State Motorcycle Safety Coalitions

lawCriminal Justice Track

  • Emerging Trends in Drug Impaired Driving
  • Traffic Safety Leadership: Tenets of Traffic Safety and Enforcement for Patrol Officers
  • Commercial Motor Vehicle Enforcement: What You Don't Know Can Hurt You
  • Returning Veterans: Unique Traffic Safety Issues for Law Enforcement Officers
  • DUI/DRE Common Defenses and Challenges: What the Law Enforcement Officer Can Expect In the Courtroom
  • Designer Drugs: What They Are and the Problems They Create
  • Drivers Licensing and Traffic Safety: Fake, Foreign and Commercial Licenses
  • Mock Trial: How to Effectively Present the Drugged Driving/Medical Marijuana Case in Court
  • Officer Fatalities: Ways to Decrease Our Losses

distracted drivingDistracted Driving Track

  • Our need to stay connected. Is it an addiction and what challenges does that present to the traffic safety community?
  • How Can Engineering and Technology Prevent Distracted Driving?
  • Enlisting Employers in the Effort to Stop Distracted Driving
  • Distracted Driving, Legislation, Law Enforcement and Penalties
  • What does the research say about cognitive distraction and its role in crashes? Why do researchers come to different conclusions on this important issue?

driveImpaired Driving Track
  • Campaign to Eliminate Drunk Driving: A Fifth Anniversary Update
  • Community Based Self Sufficient Impaired Driving Programs
  • LELs, TSRPs, and JOLs
  • Nighttime Urban Integrated Strategies
  • Judicial Outreach Liaisons
  • Update on Drug Impaired Driving
  • High Visibility Law Enforcement
  • DUI Child Endangerment
  • Ignition Interlock Update
  • Victims Impact Panel

childOccupant Protection for Children Track

  • Data & Research: Latest Studies in OPC (1.5 CEUs)
  • Pre-Teens and Teens: Keeping Kids in Seat Belts When Parents are not Around
  • Three Hot Buttons Follow Up
  • Special Needs: Working with Atypical Situations and Children
  • 2012: Updating the CPS Curriculum
  • Hitting Hyperthermia Hard: A National Initiative to Eliminate Deaths (1.5 CEUs)
  • CPS in Healthcare
  • Reaching Early Head Start, Rural Populations and Children in Foster Care
  • Public Safety: Targeting Education to Firefighters, Police Officers and Proprietary Businesses
  • Data & Research: What's New in OPC Regulations and Research (1.5 CEUs)
  • CPS FAQs for CEUs (1.5 CEUs)
  • Working with Sheriffs, Local Police and Troopers
  • Reaching Elementary School Age Children with OPC Programs

Older DriversOlder Drivers Track

  • Life After Driving: Helping Older Drivers Maintain Mobility & Independence
  • State Policies & Practices Impacting Older Driver Safety & Mobility
  • Resources & Tools For Older Drivers & Their Families/Caregivers
  • Making the Transition from Driver to Passenger: Signs & Symptoms

adhocOther Highway Safety Priorities Track

  • International Research
  • Tribal Motor Vehicle Safety
  • Let the "Force" Be With You - Fueling Optimal Resources for Community Effectiveness
  • New NHTSA Communications Strategies and Messages
  • Social Media is Not a Fad - It's Here to Stay
  • Reaching the Millennial Generation
  • Spanish Campaigns - More than Translation
  • Get Behind the Campaigns: Free Communications Resources Available for Your Programs

raod safetyRoadway Safety Track

  • Fix the Problem Permanently with Low Cost Safety Countermeasures
  • Moving the Numbers with Strategic Highway Safety Plans
  • National and International Initiatives in Roadway Safety

teen safetyTeen Traffic Safety Track

  • What Makes a Difference in Improving GDL Laws?
  • Successful Strategies for Getting Teens to Buckle Up
  • Bringing Drivers Education to 21st Century
  • Building Effective Teen Safe Driving Coalitions
  • Compliance of Laws Related to Teen Driving
  • Creating a Safety Culture for Teen Drivers
  • Insider's Guide to Working with High Schools: Creative Ways to Engage Students in Traffic Safety
  • It's a Teen's World After All!
  • How to Engage Parents in Their Teen's Driving
  • Are Teen Driving Skills Programs Having an Impact?

teen safetyTraffic Incident Management/Planned Special Events Track

  • Traffic Safety at Planned Special Events
  • Safety First: Technologies for Traffic Incident and Planned Special Events
  • Training - Preparing a workforce to be safer and better prepared for traffic incident management and planned special events
  • Learning from Other Disciplines: Cross-Cutting Issues
  • The Safety Business Case for Traffic Incident Management and Planned Special Events
  • Research and Data Needs: Traffic Incident Management and Planned Special Events
  • The State of the Practice: Putting Information into the Hands of the Practitioners
  • Performance Measures for Traffic Incident and Planned Special Events - And How Best to Tie to Financial/Budget Needs
  • Making the Roads Safer

Previous Workshops

2011 Workshop Presentations/handouts
2010 Workshop Presentations/handouts

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