1. Regional Road Safety Workshop
Embedding the Road Safety Manuals

2. Content I | Fitting into Road Safety- process II | Embedding Manuals
III | Legal Basis
IV | Formal protocol and procedure
V | Implications for the adoption of procedures
VI | Organizing awareness
VII | Supporting sector coordination
VIII | Road Safety Development & founding mechanism

3. Fitting into Road Safety- process
Planning, strategies & policies
Legal Basis
Protocols & procedures
Awareness among decision makers & managers
Institution building
Increase capacity & knowledge
Monitor & review

4. Embedding Manuals
Establish a legal basis for Road Safety: Clear roles and responsibilities with strong political leadership
Establish formal protocol/law: Clarifying Road Safety procedures, roles & responsibilities
Ensure that all directors/managers/designers/consultants – centrally and locally – are consulted in the process and subsequently informed about all new procedures, manuals etc.
Establish a Road Safety Agency/entity with proper budget and influence. Sustainable Capacity Building and awareness with long term budget
Planning for the adoption of new procedures and issuance of a National Policy
Introduce a system for monitoring and review of undertaken Road Safety initiatives in order to improve standards, procedures and plans

5. THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
Legal Basis
Legal requirements for the road authority
Responsibility must be supported at the highest political level (i.e. President/Prime Minister)
DIRECTIVE 2008/96/EC OF
THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
AND OF THE COUNCIL
of 19 November 2008
on road infrastructure safety management
THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
Acting in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 251 of the Treaty ……
In Europe, example of a mandatory procedure supported by strong legal basis

6. Formal protocol or procedure
The procedure needs to specify:
The resources needed
Organisational responsibility
The detailed process to be followed as set
out in formally approved manuals or guidelines
The stages and schemes
A Systematic Procedure

7. Implications for the adoption of procedure
Road Safety initiatives need to be sustained and strongly supported by high level stakeholders
Adopting a procedure implies:
Budget and resources
Timeframe
Inclusion of requirements in contractual documents (integrated in ALL road projects)
Local professional capacities (include local staff in projects/transfer of technology)

8. Multidisciplinary Process – Clear key responsibilities
Organizing Awareness
Multidisciplinary Process – Clear key responsibilities
POLITICAL LEADERSHIP
Prime Minister
Road Safety National Committee / Commission
Road Authorities & related agencies
Private sector, users, population,Media & NGOs

9. Supporting Sector coordination

10. Supporting sector coordination (example)
Best Practice model recommended by OECD

11. Supporting sector coordination (example)
New Zealand’s National Road Safety Committee (NSRC)
Co-ordination: Chaired by the Chief Executive of the lead agency, it brings together the Chief Executives of seven key Government agencies concerned with road safety including local government.
Accountability: The terms of reference for the NRSC are set out in a Memorandum of Understanding. Road Safety is clearly identified as core business for each of the partners in their documentation and in the adopted national road safety strategy giving potential for wider implementation of specific proven measures and increased resource.
Technical support: The NRSC has a National Road Safety Working Group made up of representatives of the NRSC organizations which sets the agenda and prepares papers for quarterly NRSC meetings as well as setting up working groups on specific issues.
Inter-ministerial Committee for Road Safety (CISR) in France
Chaired by the Prime Minister, the coordinating committee brings together ministers of the following government departments:
Transport
Interior
Defense
Justice
Health
Education
Research
Finance
The Committee meets twice a year and the Secretary is the Director of Road Safety and Traffic within the Ministry of Transport
The National Road Safety Council has a consultative role and comprises all stakeholders. Including representatives of local authorities

12. Supporting sector coordination (example)
Parliamentary initiatives on road safety in Sweden
Sweden’s Parliamentary Transport Committee played a key role in enshrining the Vision Zero policy in legislation and introducing numerical fatality reduction targets to 2007 to encourage fast action.
In the Netherlands, the Standing Committee on Transport, Public Works and Water Management played a similar role in ensuring that Sustainable Safety and casualty reduction targets were covered by legislation.
The all-party British Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety played a national co-ordinating role in the introduction of compulsory front seat belt wearing in the early 1980s through Private Members’ legislation.

13. Road Safety Development
In Europe, Road Safety was developed empirically
But today we can use international best practices as a basis

14. Local Capacity
In many countries Road Safety Auditors/Inspectors are trained and certified: Specialized training courses
Road Safety is part of curriculum at University level: Creating new professional fields
Road Safety brings employment opportunities and contributes to poverty reduction at a larger level

15. Strategies
Develop Road Safety Strategies apt for realistic action plans and achievable goals Each country should have a National Policy on Road Safety Example from Tanzania

16. Providing lessons for improvement of road network
Monitor and Review
Formal system for monitoring and reviewing recommendations and integrating them into projects
Providing lessons for improvement of road network
Development of a safer future road network

17. Supporting road safety – funding mechanisms
Road Safety needs sustainable funding mechanisms:
UN organizations recommend that at least 10% of Road Budget should be dedicated to Road Safety (UN Decade of Action)
Road Safety as part of Road Projects
Road Safety as part of Road Maintenance Funds
Other possibilities: Specific tax from fuel, insurance companies, private sector, NGOs, PPP agreements

18. Group Discussion
What is the context of your country, road agency for the requirements of operationalizing the manuals?
What is the need for higher level coordination to mainstream road safety in road infrastructure?
What is your experiences and practices and what should be changed to embed and operationalize the manuals?