The Safe System Tool
The Safe System Tool offers a user-friendly interface to navigate through the framework for implementing a Safe System. It can be used to evaluate road-safety projects, road safety strategies or plans by countries, municipalities, companies and other road safety stakeholders. It shows to which extent a project, strategy or plan contributes to a Safe System. The tool highlights room for improvement and helps to identify appropriate interventions, acknowledging that improvement is a process of evolution across decades.
What the Tool does
The Safe System tool serves three purposes:
- General guidance: provide general guidance about interventions needed to implement the Safe System approach.
- Self-evaluation: assess where a project, strategy or plan stands with regard to Safe System implementation.
- Monitoring: track progress towards Safe System implementation.
Who the Tool is for
The Safe System Tool can support a wide range of users and support different kinds of initiatives. Typical use-cases include the following examples.
National, regional or local governments
When developing their road safety strategies, national, regional and local governments can use the Safe System Tool to identify road safety interventions that should be considered. The Tool allows them to visualise at which stage of development towards a Safe System they stand and how to advance further.
At a national level all cells are relevant, on the regional or local level only some. For regional governments, it is recommended to start considering the cells covered by the Institutional Governance component and the Road Safety Management pillar.
Public or private companies
Companies can benefit from the framework to assess how far they have come on their journey to integrate road safety in their sustainability work. The most relevant cells for companies are those related to two Safe System components, namely Establish robust institutional governance, to assess the company’s internal work and Share responsibility, which focuses on how contractors and transports are procured.
The Tool contains explicit descriptions targeted at public or private companies in these cells. Companies are encouraged to also take a look at the other cells, which may still be relevant, depending on their work processes.
Projects
The tool can provide project managers with guidance and structure for action. Project managers can assess how planned interventions improve the projects Safe System content, identify opportunities for further improvement and provide professional guidance to maximise the effectiveness.
As a first step, project managers should select cells directly relevant to the project, but as the project progresses, they should review the neighbouring cells for a broader perspective.