Despite the significant road safety benefits which can be delivered by properly targeted road engineering interventions, Road Controlling Authorities (RCAs) have no clearly expressed duty in New Zealand (NZ) law to consider and implement measures to address road safety risk. As part of the development of a New Zealand Road Safety 2010, Strategy strong community support was evident for a structured approach to address road engineering safety issues. The method of achieving this was seen as through the adoption of Safety Management Systems (SMS). This paper describes what a SMS is, what are its benefits and what it should contain. The model used to implement “best practice” SMS within NZ RCAs is also presented. This paper is intended to showcase and create discussion on the innovations in road safety engineering that have come out of a SMS development and implementation project involving a majority of NZ RCAs. (Author/publisher) For the covering entry of this conference, please see ITRD abstract no. E213531.
Samenvatting