Cellphone Use While Driving Sample Clauses

Cellphone Use While Driving. Talking on a cell phone while driving a City vehicle (or while driving a personal vehicle on City business) is to be avoided, if at all possible. Cell phone usage while driving should only be done in emergency situations, in all other cases employees must pull over to the side of the road/off the road to use their cell phone for any reason. Employees are banned from texting, messaging, or surfing the internet while driving a City vehicle. As outlined above, any use of a cell phone by an employee while out in the field, on the road, etc. may only be done in emergency situations or permissible brief contacts. A. The safety and security of employees, clients, contractors, and the general public are of vital importance to the City of Alliance. Therefore, threats, threatening behavior, or acts of violence made by an employee or anyone else against another person’s life, health, well-being, family, or property will not be tolerated. Employees found guilty of violence will be subject to disciplinary action up to and including termination of employment. B. The purpose of this policy is to provide guidance to employees of the City of Alliance should they encounter a situation that they believe is or could result in an act of violence. C. The word “violence” in this policy shall mean an act or behavior that: 1. is physically assaultive; 2. a reasonable person would perceive as obsessive (e.g., intensely focused on a grudge, grievance, or romantic interest in another person and likely to result in harm or threats of harm to persons or property); 3. consists of a communicated or reasonably perceived threat to harm another individual or in any way endanger the safety of another;