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Sweedler Receives 2007
Haddon Award
August 29, 2007
Safety and Policy Analysis International is pleased to announce that its founding partner, Barry Sweedler, has received the Haddon Award of the International Council on Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety (ICADTS). This award is one of the highest honors conferred by ICADTS or any other transportation organization. The award recognizes individuals who have advocated scientifically based changes to public policy that can reduce the adverse effects of alcohol or other drugs on traffic safety. It was named in honor of Dr. William Haddon, Jr., a physician and epidemiologist who was a pioneer in the highway safety field.
Mr. Sweedler has been conferred this honor for his many years of work to improve transportation safety, especially with respect to drug and alcohol use. During his more than 30 year career with the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board, Mr. Sweedler worked to identify important safety issues in all modes of transportation both in the U.S. and worldwide, develop and recommend solutions to those problems, and advocate and actively support the implementation of these solutions. He was instrumental in beginning the National debate on raising the legal minimum drinking age by recommending to all States that the age be raised to 21. This policy change has resulted in the saving of many thousands of lives. He also studied and recommended solutions to the hard core drinking driver problem and was instrumental in the adoption of many other traffic safety policies related to impaired driving.
His work extended to other transportation modes, including investigation of alcohol and drug abuse by transportation workers in safety positions (including airline pilots, ship captains, locomotive engineers and truck drivers). The recommendations resulting from this work helped bring about the implementation of drug and alcohol testing programs for the vehicle operators in all modes.
Mr. Sweedler is only the third recipient of the Haddon award. It was conferred at a special award ceremony on August 29th 2007 at the 18th International Conference on Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety in Seattle, Washington.
ICADTS is an independent nonprofit body whose only goal is to reduce mortality and morbidity brought about by misuse of alcohol and drugs by operators of vehicles in all modes of transportation.
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