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Management Commitment
and Leadership
Involve Employees
Understand the Risks
Identify Critical Work for
Controlling the Risks
Establish Performance
Standards
Maintain Measurement and
Feedback Systems
Reinforce and Implement
Corrective Action
Improve and Update the
Process
during the early 1900s, automobile ownership in the United States began to
skyrocket.
Sadly, the increase in vehicles was accompanied by a tremendous esca-
lation in vehicle-related deaths. By the 1920s, motor vehicle fatalities had
climbed to 20,000 per year. With increasing public pressure to improve traf-
fic safety, Herbert Hoover, then Secretary of Commerce, called the first
