Our Driving Concern North Carolina

Employer Traffic Safety Awards

New this year, Our Driving Concern will honor North Carolina employers through a unique awards recognition program.

Traffic safety awards will be presented to North Carolina organizations that encourage positive driver behaviors among employees on and off the job. The goal is to decrease injuries and fatalities that are a result of crashes on North Carolina roads.

Our Driving Concern is a program of the National Safety Council, funded through grants from the Governor’s Highway Safety Program. The program’s mission is to assist employers in implementing well-developed policies and comprehensive workplace programs that can help reduce traffic crashes.

The workplace is a natural setting for distributing traffic safety messages and discussing driver behaviors — and it makes dollars and sense to do just that. Here’s why: By developing company policies, providing education and offering incentives, employers can save lives and save money.

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Demonstrate your concern for the well-being of employees and their families.

You act as a role model for others and have a chance to be recognized for your efforts through the Our Driving Concern awards program:

Eligibility

Any North Carolina employer is eligible to submit an awards application. Anyone may nominate an employer. Self-nominations also are accepted. Employers may be municipal, corporate, private or not-for-profit — small or large.

Judging

Employers will be judged based on what they are doing in terms of education and outreach within their organization focusing on traffic safety and driver behaviors to reduce traffic crashes on and off the job, the primary cause of lost work time and employee fatalities. Each application will be reviewed individually based on its own merit.

Category

Excellence in Traffic Safety

Important Dates

The 2026 online application period runs through Jan. 30.

Annual Awards Presentation

Award recipients will be honored at a North Carolina safety event or local gathering.

Best Practices

Award recipients exemplify the highest standards of achievement in the field of employee education and outreach in the area of traffic safety and driver behavior. Their programs serve as models for North Carolina employers to emulate in developing or reviewing their own workplace traffic safety programs.

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Questions?

For more information, email [email protected].