This report describes the Integrated Safety Management System (ISMSystem), which defines an organizational structure supported by resources, leadership, mission, vision, management process, and tools for maximizing highway safety. Integrating the activities of agencies within a jurisdiction can result in a higher level of highway safety unobtainable by any agency working independently. A multidisciplinary coalition of highway safety agencies working under a memorandum of understanding allows the integration of efforts of these agencies that are responsible for highway safety. Within the ISMSystem, day-to-day management responsibility falls upon the Operations Manager, who is appointed by the coalition. Integration of goals and priorities for the ISMSystem is the responsibility of the Safety Program Leadership, which is a group consisting of the top management of the coalition agencies. Task Team membership is dependent upon the professionals from highway safety agencies in order to develop strategies and action plans for implementation. The Risk Analysis and Evaluation group undertakes the quantitative analyses of highway data and gathers information to support the decision-making process carried out by the leadership and members of the Task Teams. The management process for implementing the ISMSystem comprises the necessary steps for advancing from crash data to integrated action plans. This process applies methodologies for problem identification, resource optimization, and performance measurements. The report will be of particular interest to safety practitioners with responsibility for implementing programs to reduce injuries and fatalities on the highway system. This report may be accessed by Internet users at http://gulliver.trb.org/publications/nchrp/nchrp_rpt_501.pdf
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