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Made available by the Northern Territory Library via the Publications (Legal Deposit) Act 2004 (NT). ; This NT Fleet Drivers Handbook provides guidelines for the correct use of Northern Territory Government vehicles. It is the responsibility of all drivers of Government vehicles to familiarise themselves and comply with these guidelines. The handbook outlines the driver's responsibilities which include the care, safe operation and security of Government vehicles. Information is also provided to assist in arranging service and maintenance, fuel purchase and other aspects of vehicle use. - Foreword ; Foreword -- Agency responsibilities -- Driver responsibilities -- Vehicle maintenance -- Emergency procedures ; updated January 2015 - Cover

Intro -- TEEN DRIVER SAFETY AND GRADUATED DRIVER LICENSES -- TEEN DRIVER SAFETY AND GRADUATED DRIVER LICENSES -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 DRIVERS AGED 16 OR 17 YEARS INVOLVED IN FATAL CRASHES - UNITED STATES, 2004-2008 -- NATIONAL TEEN DRIVER SAFETY WEEK -OCTOBER 17-23, 2010 -- REFERENCES -- Reported by -- Editorial Note -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2 TEEN DRIVER SAFETY: ADDITIONAL RESEARCH COULD HELP STATES STRENGTHEN GRADUATED DRIVER LICENSING SYSTEMS -- WHY GAO DID THIS STUDY -- WHAT GAO RECOMMENDS -- WHAT GAO FOUND -- ABBREVIATIONS -- BACKGROUND -- MOST STATE GDL SYSTEMS INCLUDE KEY REQUIREMENTS, BUT SPECIFIC PROVISIONS VARY BY STATE AND RESEARCH ON THESE PROVISIONS IS LIMITED -- States Generally Include Requirements That Safety Experts Considered Key, but Specific Provisions Vary among States -- Research Supports Most Key Requirements, but Limited Evidence Exists on Optimal Provisions -- STATES FACE RESEARCH, LEGISLATIVE, AND OTHER CHALLENGES TO IMPROVE TEEN DRIVER SAFETY AND HAVE DEVELOPED STRATEGIES TO ADDRESS THEM -- CONCLUSIONS -- RECOMMENDATION FOR EXECUTIVE ACTION -- AGENCY COMMENTS -- APPENDIX I: OBJECTIVES, SCOPE, AND METHODOLOGY -- APPENDIX II: RECOMMENDED GDL REQUIREMENTS -- APPENDIX III. REQUIREMENTS OF A GDL SYSTEM AND STATE DRIVER SAFETY PROVISIONS -- End Notes -- Chapter 3 TEEN DRIVER CRASHES: A REPORT TO CONGRESS, JULY 2008 -- TEEN DRIVER CRASHES -- Teen Driver Crashes -- Contributing Factors to Teen Driver Crash Rates -- Programs to Reduce Teen Driver Crashes -- Stage 1: Learner's Permit -- Stage 2: Intermediate (Provisional) License -- Stage 3: Full Licensure -- CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS -- APPENDIX -- REFERENCES -- End Notes -- Chapter 4 GRADUATED DRIVER LICENSING SYSTEM -- BACKGROUND -- KEY FACTS -- HOW EFFECTIVE ARE GDL SYSTEMS? -- How Does GDL Work? -- Stage 1: Learner's Permit

Subtitle varies. ; Title from cover. ; Index to U.S. government periodicals ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Published in cooperation with the Dept. of the Army and the Dept. of the Navy. ; Vols. for 1967- published by U.S. Air Force; by U.S. Air Force Inspection and Safety Center.

During the past half century, driver licensing has developed from a tax on the users of highways to a major safety activity, and it has spread to every state in the Union. Con trolling who should drive and under what conditions was less important than taxation in the early days of licensing, but today this relationship has been reversed. Licensing is granting a privilege, and the courts have repeatedly upheld this principle; the public, however, must be constantly reminded that a license to drive is only a privilege and not a right. Laws generally provide for examination of drivers and restriction of licenses, but, based as they are on the theory that high-risk applicants can be detected and rejected, they are so limited in effectiveness that continued driver improvement work is necessary to deal with those whose driving records contain conspicuous numbers of unfavorable reports. Driver licensing depends for success upon supporting activities of police and courts both in en forcing license requirements and reporting driver experience. Years of research will be required to develop its full safety potentialities.

Psychological fatigue is defined as a subjectively experienced disinclination to continue performing the task at hand. It generally impairs human efficiency when individuals continue working after they have become aware of their fatigue. It does not depend on energy expenditure and. cannot be measured simply in terms of performance impairment. The interacting causal contributions to fatigue are the length of continuous work spells and daily duty periods, time available for rest and continuous sleep, and the arrangement of duty, rest, and sleep periods within each 24-h cycle. Empirical evidence for the separate and combined effects of these factors on fatigue, performance decrement, and accident risk are briefly reviewed, and the implications of these findings for driving and road safety are considered, with particular reference to the professional driver. This study shows that fatigue is insufficiently recognized and reported as a cause of road accidents and that its effects stem largely from prolonged and irregular working hours, rather than simply from time spent at the wheel.

This comprehensive book responds to the growing demand to study entrepreneurship as a key driver of innovation and competitive advantage. Challenging the existing idea that technological entrepreneurship exists predominantly in SMEs and as a result of market demands, the author argues that a commitment to entrepreneurship remains the most effective strategy for sustaining wealth generation for both organisations and entire nations. The aim of Technological Entrepreneurship is to provide the reader with additional knowledge and understanding of the concepts associated with the exploitation of technological entrepreneurship, and to demonstrate how associated management principles are somewhat different to those utilised in market-driven entrepreneurship. Validation of presented theoretical concepts is achieved through coverage of processes and practices utilised by real world organisations seeking to achieve maximum wealth generation, with specific emphasis on how technological entrepreneurship is the source of disruptive innovation within service sector organisations and how the philosophy is causing fundamental change in the provision of healthcare.

Sociologists who study social movements know that grassroots organizing tactics, as social change tools, tend to be favored by institutional outsiders. But recent scholarship and developments in the health care debate suggest that these "weapons of the weak" are increasingly used by powerful insiders.