Driving and being a passenger in a car are the most dangerous things that pretty much all of us do. So we should all be warned about the dangers. As an employer, I would not single out pregnant women for notification. The federal civil rights laws are pretty clear that employers should not make suppositions about dangers pregnant women may face. It can be noted that it wasn't until about ten years or so ago that NHTSA started including female statute/weight/size crash dummies, and "pregnant" crash dummies even more recently than that. Perhaps someone at NHTSA can fill us in on the history and current progress of the efforts. Marc Brenman mbrenman001(a)comcast.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ed Christopher" <edc(a)berwyned.com> To: H+T--Friends(a)chrispy.net Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2013 1:43:57 PM Subject: [H+T--Friends] Should Pregnant Women Be Warned About the Health Risks of Driving? This was sent to me by someone on our list but it got deleted by our spam filtering. Seems "Pregnant Women" in the title triggered something in the spam filter. -------------------- When you tell people you’re pregnant, the first thing you get is advice. It comes from friends, from relatives, from books, from your doctor, from random people on the street, from signs and warnings on various products. Do this. Don’t do that. Avoid drinking alcohol. Steer clear of second-hand smoke (or god forbid, first-hand). Don’t drink too much caffeine. Consult a physician on every medication you take, whether over-the-counter or prescription. Don’t eat sushi. Skip unpasteurized cheeses. Think twice before you get on a roller coaster. But one thing no one says to you is this: don’t drive or ride in a personal motor vehicle if you can avoid it. Or at least, no one said it to me. No one told me the proper way to wear a seatbelt while pregnant, either. http://m.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2013/03/should-pregnant-women-be-war… -- Ed Christopher _______________________________________________ H+T--Friends mailing list H+T--Friends(a)ryoko.chrispy.net http://ryoko.chrispy.net/mailman/listinfo/h+t--friends