Two new Austroads Guides for Road Safety Audits released

Two new Austroads Guides for Road Safety Audits have been published. Safe System principles are now embedded in the auditing process.

Guide to Road Safety Part 6: Managing Road Safety Audits provides guidance on the procurement, management and conduct of road safety audits. It aims to:

• inform practitioners new to road safety audit principles and concepts (especially project clients and project managers) and encourage the conduct of audits and other assessments to maximise their benefits
• ensure practitioners are aware of up?to?date operating environments and contexts (e.g. the Safe System approach to road safety), and recent developments in predictive risk assessments.

The Guide emphasises the responsibilities of road and transport agencies and key players such as project managers, project sponsors and auditors to maximise alignment with Safe System principles by integrating them into the road safety audit process. This can be achieved by:

• relating possible crash forces to tolerable levels of the human body when identifying hazards and assessing fatal and serious injury risks
• categorising road safety audit findings and/or treatment options by their Safe System alignment.

The online version of the Guide is being developed and will be available in March 2019.

 Download at: https://austroads.com.au/publications/road-safety/agrs06

Guide to Road Safety Part 6A: Implementing Road Safety Audits serves to re-issue the content of the previous 2009 edition of the Austroads Guide to Road Safety Part 6: Road Safety Audit, albeit with a change in title and reference (Part 6A) to more accurately reflect the original objective of the document in guiding practitioners through the practical implementation of road safety audits.

 A new, complementary Part 6 has been developed and published concurrently, to specifically cover the management of road safety audits. It is recognised that some degree of repetition and obsolescence exists between the two guides. Where this occurs, the new Part 6 shall take precedence.

Consolidation of the two guides into one, standalone document has been proposed to commence in mid-2019.

 Download at: https://austroads.com.au/publications/road-safety/agrs06A