GETTING STARTED

• Understand the legislated safety responsibilities of your road authority.
• Gain support of the authority CEO for change and for innovative approaches and treatments to improve safety outcomes.
• Establish a strategic road safety objective for your authority.
• Introduce the Safe System to your authority and commence the process of embedding it within the goals of your road authority.
• Introduce processes within your authority to develop new policies based on Safe System principles for your planning and operations for asset management and improvement, traffic management and maintenance and apply these.

MAKING PROGRESS

• Move to fully embed the Safe System in the targets and practice of your road authority.
• Train and consult with staff across the organization about roles and responsibilities in implementing the Safe System, the processes necessary to implement the new approach, including those for annual programme development and delivery, and reinforce these regularly.
• Plan and implement demonstration projects.
• Strengthen network safety management based on review of the application of Safe System policies and experience gained from planning and implementing demonstration projects.
• Develop improved business cases to seek and obtain increased funding for Safe System treatments and their wider roll-out.

CONSOLIDATING ACTIVITY

• Optimise the Safe System focus of programs and projects.
• Roll-out more broadly across the network the successful demonstration project approach, with ongoing evaluation of effectiveness.
• Strengthen processes for policy development and review activities regularly to ensure safety is fully embedded in planning and operations activities.
• Support sub-national government road authorities to embed the Safe System into their planning and operations.