The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is seeking applications for its Demonstration and Evaluation of Employer-Based Driving Safety Programs.
Donor Name: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/05/2023
Size of the Grant: up to $2,400,000
Grant Duration: 60 months
Details:
The mission of the United States (U.S.) Department of Transportation (DOT) is to serve the U.S. by ensuring a fast, safe, efficient, accessible and convenient transportation system. The mission of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), an operating mode of DOT, is to save lives, prevent injuries and reduce economic costs due to road traffic crashes, through education, research, safety standards and enforcement activity. To accomplish this, among other things, NHTSA awards assistance agreements to state and local governments, not-for-profit organizations, and other entities in support of motor vehicles and road traffic safety initiatives.
The purpose of the Cooperative Agreement (CA) is to develop and demonstrate traffic safety employer focused programs for seat belt use, distracted driving and drowsy driving. This project seeks to improve traffic safety through the creation of new and innovative programs for employers to present to employees.
NHTSA is responsible for developing strategies to reduce injuries and deaths resulting from motor vehicle crashes. NHTSA’s Office of Research and Program Development, Occupant Protection Division, has the specific responsibility for researching and developing programs and information to the public about occupant protection, distracted driving, and drowsy driving.
Over 60% of the population is employed in the United States (U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2022), which puts employers in the ideal position to bring awareness to and influence positive traffic safety behaviors. In 2019, traffic crashes cost employers $72.2 billion in direct crash-related expenses, which include medical care, liability, loss of productivity and property damage (NETS, 2019). Employers have a vested interest in reducing motor vehicle crashes to limit the economic impact on businesses and to ensure the safety of their employees while performing job functions.
Administrative Priorities and Departmental Strategic Plan Statements
- Safety: The Department is committed to advancing safe, efficient transportation, including in the Demonstration and Evaluation of Employer-Based Driving Safety Programs project. The National Roadway Safety Strategy (NRSS), issued January 27, 2022, commits the Department to respond to the current crisis in roadway fatalities by ‘taking substantial, comprehensive action to significantly reduce serious and fatal injuries on the Nation’s roadways,’ in pursuit of the goal of achieving zero roadway deaths through a Safe System Approach.
- Equity: The Department seeks to award projects under the Demonstration and Evaluation of Employer-Based Driving Safety Programs project will create proportional impacts to all populations in a project area, remove transportation related disparities to all populations in a project area, and increase equitable access to project benefits, consistent with Executive Order 13985, Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government.
- Workforce Development, Job Quality, and Wealth Creation: The Department intends to use the Demonstration and Evaluation of Employer-Based Driving Safety Programs project to support the creation of good-paying jobs with the free and fair choice to join a union and the incorporation of strong labor standards consistent with Executive Order 14025, Worker Organizing and Empowerment (86 FR 22829) and Executive Order 14052, Implementation of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (86 FR 64335). The Department also intends to use the Demonstration and Evaluation of Employer-Based Driving Safety Programs project to support wealth creation, consistent with the Department’s Equity Action Plan through the inclusion of Local inclusive economic development and entrepreneurship such as the utilization of Disadvantaged Business Enterprises, Minority-owned Businesses, Women-owned Businesses, or 8(a) firms.
Funding Information
A total of up to $2,400,000.00 is available.
Period of Performance
All work required hereunder including preparation, submission, review, and acceptance of the final reports shall be completed within sixty (60) months of the effective date of the Cooperative Agreement. NHTSA currently anticipates the start date for this new Federal award to be on or about September 2023.
Eligibility Criteria
This NOFO is open all types of domestic applicants, other than individuals. Eligibility does not guarantee an award. NHTSA will only issue an award to an eligible applicant that demonstrates that it has the infrastructure in place, as well as the necessary staff and support to carry out the responsibilities of administering, coordinating, and implementing the activities of this NOFO.
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