Road traffic safety (RTS) is a global concern. It is estimated that around 1.3 million people are killed and 50 million injured on roads around the world each year and that this level is rising. The socio-economic and health impacts are substantial. This International Standard focuses on the requirements for an RTS management system. It provides a tool to help organizations reduce, and ultimately eliminate, the incidence and risk of death and serious injury related to road traffic crashes. This focus can result in a more cost effective use of the road traffic system. This International Standard identifies elements of good RTS management practice that will enable the organization to achieve its desired RTS results. This International Standard is applicable to public and private organizations that interact with the road traffic system. It can be used by internal and external parties, including certification bodies, to assess the organization's ability to meet the requirements. Experience from around the world has shown that large reductions in death and serious injury can be achieved through the adoption of a holistic Safe System approach to RTS. This involves a clear and unequivocal focus on RTS results and evidence-based actions, supported by appropriate organizational management capacity. Government cannot achieve these reductions alone. Organizations of all types and sizes, as well as individual road users have a role to play. By adopting this International Standard, organizations should be able to achieve: RTS outcomes at levels that are beyond compliance in a given jurisdiction - their own objectives, and, at the same time, contribute to the achievement of societal goals. The management system specified in this International Standard focuses the organization on its RTS targets and objectives and guides the planning of activities that will realise these goals by using a Safe System approach to RTS. Annex B of this International Standard outlines the ‘Safe System’ approach to RTS and work conducted by certain international organizations. It describes a framework for good practice RTS management and their alignment with this International Standard. This International Standard specifies the requirements for a comprehensive RTS management system. This International Standard requires that the organization develops, implements and maintains procedures and processes as part of an RTS management system that can be integrated into the organization’s: • overall governance • strategy and planning • management • reporting procedures • policies • values (beliefs and attitudes) • culture • legal compliance. The RTS Management System can be integrated into, or made compatible with, other management systems within the organization. This International Standard promotes the use of an iterative (plan, do, check, act) process approach that will guide the organization towards delivery of the RTS results. A model of a process RTS management system that illustrates the linkages presented in Clauses 4 to 10 is shown in Figure A.1 in Annex A. (Author/publisher) In accordance with the provisions of Council Resolution 15/1993 this document is circulated in the English language only.
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