FedEx Pulish Global Citizenship Report -- Road Safety

At FedEx, pedestrian and road safety is a top priority. They are one of the biggest company in the world with many trucks on the road. Therefore, they care about road safety and invest in the cause. With more than 90,000 FedEx trucks on the road, safety is one of their core values and the top priorities. Every day, there have more than 3,200 people lose their lives and 136,000 are seriously injured in vehicle-related crashes around the globe. Almost half of those are “vulnerable” road users, including motorcyclists, pedestrians, and children.

FedEx in United States have published their Global Citizenship Report for 2014. In this global citizenship, it is about connecting the world responsibly and resourcefully. More than ever, they have aligning the citizenship goals with their business goals, it was to create the most far-reaching, impactful programs possible.

The annual global citizenship report also covers that, FedEx enterprise-wide strategies, goals, programs and progress across the four key pillars which are Economic Development, Environment, Community and people. Data in this report covers each of their operating companies and all geographies. This report give a focus on the depth of FedEx’s investment in communities around the world and in other way, they also focus on the road safety.

FedEx is a proud supporter of Youth For Road Safety (YOURS) and their efforts to #SafeKidsLives around the world. Recently, they have assisted YOURS in delivering a pre-training workshop on NGO and Corporate Fundraising at 4^th Meeting of the Global NGO Alliance for Road Safety. FedEx as a member of the UN Global Road Safety Collaboration, they also has ongoing on road safety initiatives in more than 10 countries worldwide and has reached more than 10 million children with lifesaving road safety education programs.

FedEx have shared the road and responsibility to make it in a safer place by putting their logistics expertise to work on it. In addition to comprehensive internal driver in safety policies, programs, and training, they support road safety initiatives around the world implemented by organization such as:

Safe Kids Worldwide: a global network of organizations working together to prevent accidental injury.

EMBARQ: the World Resources Institute’s Center for Sustainable Transportation dedicated to connecting people to jobs safely and economically, including a Safety First driver training program in Mexico.

UN road safety program: FedEx as member of UN Road Safety Collaboration, they also shared the safety information with governments, nonprofits, and business. FedEx also support the UN Decade of Action for Road Safety in its goal to save five million lives by 2020.

Now, FedEx is highly concerned about road safety. As a road user, we should have the conscious like FedEx, which is learn to be initiative instead of being a passive road user. Road safety is bringing up to the global attention, your initiative in joining our Promise Me Campaign will force us to improve into more better ways, can alert most of the road user at the same time and within your actions will be very supportive to ours. Please continues to stand by our Promise me, Road Safety Campaign. 

FedEx partnered with YOURS to run a pre-training workshop with NGOs at the Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety meeting in Marrakech, Morocco.

(Source:http://www.youthforroadsafety.org/activities/news/news_item/t/fedex_publish_global_citizenship_report_road_safety_is_key)

 

Source:

Youth For Road Safety 2015, ‘FedEx publish Global Citizenship Report - road safety is key’, viewed 1^st July 2015.

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By:

Tai Li Mei
14WHR 11186

Activities Department