Local Media Highlights KCI’s Driver Safety Policy

November 07, 2008

Hunt Valley, MD

In conjunction with storylines highlighting how cell phone use contributes to high accident rates throughout the state, local television stations WJZ and WBFF, as well as The Baltimore Sun, interviewed KCI CEO and Chairman Terry Neimeyer and corporate safety officer Jim Shumaker about the firm’s corporate driver safety policies. Earlier this year, KCI instituted a formal policy that prohibits cell phone use while driving company vehicles, requiring employees to pull over to the side of the road to use their phone or send a text.

"A lot of employees say that's my down time, I can get business done when I'm driving to here,” said Shumaker in The Baltimore Sun. “That's no longer effective. We tell them no."

Neimeyer is a member of the board of the Maryland Highway Safety Foundation, a new advocacy group that is dedicated to recruiting 100 businesses with a cumulative 100,000 employees to adopt driver safety policies similar to KCI’s.

In addition to prohibiting cell phone use, the firm routinely checks driving records and can require staff members to complete a defensive driving course. KCI also charges workers who are at fault in a crash in a company car half the cost of the $1,000 insurance deductible.

For more information, read the article in The Baltimore Sun or view the WJZ story.

KCI is an engineering, consulting and construction firm serving clients throughout the U.S. and beyond. With revenues of approximately $124 million in 2010, KCI is ranked 82 on the Engineering News-Record's list of the top 500 engineering firms in the country. Roughly 850 KCI employee owners provide environmental, transportation, telecommunications, construction, facilities, and land development services from more than 20 locations. For more information, visit www.kci.com.

For more information please contact:
George G. Perdikakis, Sr.
georgep@kci.com
410.316.7951