9.5 PATHWAY TO EFFECTIVE INFRASTRUCTURE SAFETY MANAGEMENT POLICIES, STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES

GETTING STARTED

  • A good understanding of infrastructure safety principles based on Safe System is required by key agency staff and stakeholders – from senior management through to technical staff.
  • Review and internationally benchmark selected infrastructure safety policies, interventions, and commence implementation of reforms.
  • Ensure safety is linked to broader transport policy, and safety is embedded within this policy.
  • Assess the safety of high-volume, high-risk locations (e.g. high crash density demonstration corridors and urban areas) and implement multi-sector improvement programmes.
  • Adopt tools for the management of road safety, and train key staff in the use of such tools.

MAKING PROGRESS

  • Ensure all road agency staff have a good understanding of infrastructure safety principles based on Safe System principles. All staff, from senior management through to technical staff need this understanding, regardless of whether safety is the main focus of their role. This includes staff responsible for national, regional and local roads.
  • Ensure that other stakeholders have good knowledge of infrastructure safety principles based on the Safe System approach.
  • Implement ongoing reforms of safety policies, interventions, and introduce new measures in accordance with international good practice.
  • Roll-out multi-sectoral measures (i.e. those that integrate infrastructure measures with e.g. enforcement, education, and post-crash care improvements), including across high-risk corridors and urban areas.
  • Continue to develop and tailor road safety tools and ensure road agency staff and other stakeholders are adequately trained in the use of these tools.

CONSOLIDATING ACTIVITY

  • Continue to develop the understanding of infrastructure safety based on Safe System principles amongst all agency staff, stakeholders and members of the public.
  • Review and internationally benchmark safety policies and interventions, and implement reforms.
  • Sustain comprehensive multi-sectoral measures across the whole road network and extend targeting to less risky roads.
  • Continually improve road safety tools, and maintain high level of training and use amongst all stakeholders.