Truck drivers, local authorities, and transportation professionals shared their safe driving skills knowledge with more than 3,000 members of the Cai Mep port community in Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province, Vietnam, at the “Get Home Safe” festival. The event was hosted as part of the Lifting Safety program and in commemoration of the 4th UN Global
A new Safety campaign will use billboards and a public service announcement to address drowsy driving among industrial truck drivers in the Cai Mep port complex area. The Vietnamese-language campaign’s slogan, which translates to “A road crash can happen in the blink of an eye,” is featured on billboards installed along a major highway, and
AIP Foundation conducted road safety trainings to more than 220 staff to Cambodia Airports, the operator of the country’s three international airports. Held on 21-30 March, the workshops provided an overview of the key road safety issues on Cambodia’s roads as well as practical tips on how to drive safely. Outside the classroom, airport staff
AIP Foundation launched a Young Ambassadors for Road Safety (YARS) network that will empower university students to design and implement sustainable road safety awareness activities for more than 3,000 of their peers. During the program’s kick-off ceremony, a helmet design competition was also announced. The capacity building program will work with three universities located in
APM Terminals and AIP Foundation conducted truck driver road safety trainings at Cai Mep International Terminal (CMIT), which is located in the fast-growing market of Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province, Vietnam. The terminal neighbors National Highway 51, a notoriously dangerous roadway on which vulnerable users, such as motorcyclists and bicyclists, drive alongside heavy container and truck
Thatchawut Jardbandista, a member of AIP Foundation’s Legal Development Program (LDP), joined fellow road safety experts to discuss recent research examining causes of crashes during a seminar titled “The Awareness…Thailand Traffic.” During the meeting, which was hosted by the Police Education Bureau of the Royal Thai Police, Jardbandista talked about the circumstances surrounding a recent major crash involving a
APM Terminals together with AIP Foundation, a road safety nonprofit, is rolling out a new training program in Vietnam to help make the port community of Cai Mep in southern Vietnam safe. More than 45 truck drivers and other CMIT employees, along with executives from the APM Terminals’ operated Cai Mep International Terminal (CMIT), joined
Street Wise, a program supported by Chevron Thailand Exploration and Production, Ltd., recognized 46 student Road Safety Ambassadors for their dedication to the program during a ceremony attended by nearly 350 community members. The event took place at the Weicheinchom School in the Muang District of Songkhla Province. The ambassadors have been educating their peers
Over the past three years, AIP Foundation has consistently delivered quality road safety education to schools throughout Kai County as part of the Walk Wise project. This month, however, the program partnered with local nonprofit Chongqing Youth Aid Volunteer Organization to focus their efforts on children from previously overlooked and under-served communities, including those from low-income families.
Sixty workers from the Nghi Son Refinery and Petrochemicals (NSRP) plant attended an intensive driving skills course at the Lilama Weld Training School in Tinh Gia, Thanh Hoa. A trainer from the Thanh Hoa Vocational School of Transportation led the course and shared information on road safety issues in Vietnam. He also discussed decree 46, a
