Air Force Safety Center recognized for young drivers program

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  • By Gwen Dooley
  • Air Force Safety Center
KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. (AFNS) --  Members of the Air Force Safety Center's Ground Safety Division received the National Safety Council's Outstanding Effort in Training Young Adult Drivers award for "sincerity of heart" in keeping young adult drivers alive and safe behind the wheel of Air Force vehicles and their own personal vehicles.

Each year, NSC officials review all of its Defensive Driving Course training programs for agency programs that excel in areas including the number of students trained.

Air Force official's dedicated efforts and hard work implementing an "Alive at 25" program to train Airmen, instructors and instructor trainers "made significant impact on lives saved and will continue to do so," said Debra Ferris, the NSC director of Safety & Health Solutions.  

Through the leadership of ground safety division personnel, Air Force officials trained more than 5,000 Airmen, 250 instructors and six instructor trainers since Oct. 1, 2008.

Other Air Force accomplishments include:
--An Air Force instructor was named "Defensive Driving Course-Alive at 25 Instructor of the Year" for two consecutive years
--An Air Force instructor was named "Instructor Trainer of the Year"

"The people assigned to our ground safety division continue, each day, to make great strides in saving Airmen's lives and preserving combat capability," said Roberto Guerrero, the Air Force Safety Center's executive director. "We've had great results with the "Alive at 25" training program and this award, in addition to reductions in fatalities, makes all the hard work worthwhile,"