Cintas Offers Free Online Defensive Driving Awareness Offer to Help Companies Enhance Employee Driver Safety During Winter Months

CINCINNATI--January 4, 2011: Cintas Corporation today announced an opportunity for businesses to improve the safety of employees behind the wheel with a Free Online Defensive Driving Awareness Training Offer through February 28, 2011.

“So it is extremely important that companies spend the time and the resources to train their employees on defensive driving techniques that they can use whether they are delivering goods and services to their customers or simply driving to and from work.”

In an effort to reduce costs and increase driver productivity for businesses, the training offer will focus on safe driving practices and distractions that may cause drivers to lose focus, including multi-tasking while driving and busy schedules. As part of Cintas' First Aid & Safety Training and Compliance Division, the online course catalog also includes first-aid and CPR, fire extinguisher, automatic external defibrillator (AED) and other safety training courses.

"In 2009, nearly 34,000 people died in motor vehicle traffic crashes in the United States," said David Bingham, Director of AEDs and Training, Cintas. "So it is extremely important that companies spend the time and the resources to train their employees on defensive driving techniques that they can use whether they are delivering goods and services to their customers or simply driving to and from work."

Cintas' blended training and compliance solutions include online, classroom and compliance programs taught by OSHA-certified trainers to help companies stay compliant with OSHA standards and enhance workplace safety training. The online programs provide increased efficiency to companies by guaranteeing 100 percent mastery as questions are immediately reviewed until workers fully understand the topic. Cintas also offers Blueprints for Safety^®, its step-by-step compliance and safety system that delivers simple, complete programs developed by certified safety and health professionals.

To sign up for the free defensive driving course, please visit Cintas Safe Driving.

About Cintas Corporation:

Headquartered in Cincinnati, Cintas Corporation provides highly specialized services to businesses of all types primarily throughout North America. Cintas designs, manufactures and implements corporate identity uniform programs, and provides entrance mats, restroom supplies, promotional products, first aid, safety, fire protection products and services and document management services for approximately 800,000 businesses. Cintas is a publicly held company traded over the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol CTAS, and is a component of the Standard & Poor's 500 Index.