The Nebraska Safety Center was established by the Nebraska Legislature in 1978. It is located in West Center on the University of Nebraska at Kearney campus. It provides instruction and safety education, service through seminars and workshops, coordination of state-wide programs, and research in safety education. These purposes and functions of the Nebraska Safety Center are addressed through five areas. These five areas are traffic, industrial, home, fire and recreational safety.
The Nebraska Safety Center has a driving range facility that is known as the Ron and Carol Cope Nebraska Center for Safety Education and Research that was developed in 1981. It is located approximately four blocks south of UNK’s campus on North Railroad Street.
The Nebraska Safety Center offers a wide variety of classes but the marketing plan will focus on Driver’s Education. The primary focus will be on creating awareness about the Nebraska Safety Center, driver’s education, and how to get a driver’s education endorsement.
Driver’s education endorsement classes are held in the spring and summer semesters. The driver’s education program is offered year round and it provides four different phases of instructions to students learning to drive. These four phases include the classroom, simulation driving, range, and on-street instruction in actual traffic situations. There are classes held outside the Omaha and Lincoln metro area. Although the main office is located in Kearney, they have a wide variety of locations state wide for classes to be held.
The Nebraska Safety Center needs help in spreading awareness and needs a marketing plan in place that focuses on driver’s education awareness. Our marketing plan will help map out ways to crea...
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... the nine credit hour driver’s education class and encourage them to teach classes in Nebraska
[wait for answer] only have [$x] for a grant but have an opportunity to seek another grant specifically for driver’s education.
• Year to date they have only had [x] of students complete driver’s education so there is an opportunity to recruit more students.
• Kearney population continues to grow and an opportunity exists to market to them
• Continue to raise awareness of the Nebraska Safety Center and driver’s education program so when people think of driver’s education they automatically think Nebraska Safety Center.
Threats
• When people get certified to become a driver’s education instructor but leave the state to teach classes
• Confusion between Nebraska Safety Council and Nebraska Safety Center
• Driver’s education teachers getting older and nearing retirement
Ontario Provincial Police . (2009). Provincial Traffic Safety Program. Retrieved from Ontario Provincial Police: http://www.opp.ca/ecms/index.php?id=51
Most learners are not in full time employment when they start the course, but as the course proceeds, approximately half of all learners will leave to take a job. The main motivation of learners is to achieve a numeracy qualification and couple this with a literacy qualification and use this as route for entry into the Access to Higher Education programs offered either by County Community College or neighboring colleges. Most of the learners can see the benefit of gaining qualifications as a way of improving their lifestyles by allowing them to have more employment options. The majority of learners have school age children and it has been noted that a lot of the learners want to make a good example for their children in regards to education and employment.
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These schools and training institutes offer complete assistance for their students to learn every required skill to become a safe and reliable driver. In addition, many of these schools also offer proper assistance to their students in finding a good job as a trucker. Professionally, a truck driving job is considered as a high salaried job and hence, many people look forward to get in the trucking industry as a driver. These CDL training schools train these people to easily handle the pressures and responsibilities of a truck driver. Furthermore, these trucker training schools are also important because they make every truck driver aspirant aware of all necessary legal traffic regulations of their state and other states. Another advantage of these training schools is that they ensure that no unskilled and unprofessional person may enter in the profession of truck driving. This helps in reducing the fatalities in road accidents involving heavy motor vehicles.
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You never know what emergencies might crop up while you’re on the road. Traffic school courses give you the rundown on what to do if you ever find yourself in a difficult situation, like any of the following:
CDC. (2014, October 10). Injury Prevention & Control: Motor Vehical Safty. Retrieved November 28, 2014, from Center for Disease Control and Prevention: http://www.cdc.gov/Motorvehiclesafety/Distracted_Driving/index.html
Specific Purpose Statement: To inform my audience how to insure their safety, and the safety of others, while on the road
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