Proactive Partnership Strategy - Global Road Safety Partnership

The scope of road safety partnership’s activities are far-reaching, and
together members strive to tackle many of the road safety problems that are
present. Each partner contributes according to their professional perspective,
capacity or expertise. For example:
• Businesses, drawing largely from their fleet management and business
acumen, can provide health and safety processes for keeping their
workforce safer. They have the opportunity to take wealth creating choices
that improve safety and their bottom line. They also collect valuable data
and analyze their own incidents.
• Town planners can work towards creating a safer physical and social
environment.
• Engineers work to assess the roads, and then strategize on how to improve
the road layout at locations where fatal and serious injury crashes have
been occurring. (Black spot treatment.)
• Citizens can actively adapt their behavior to deal with difficult road, vehicle
and trauma care situations. They are the only part of the safe system that
can rapidly adapt to new conditions.
• Traffic police work at upholding the law, whilst police crash investigators
determine the cause of fatal and serious crashes so that targeted
preventative measures can be introduced.
• Educators, Road Safety Officers and Police can collectively deliver
educational packages in schools and community settings.
• Public Health personnel can also deliver injury prevention programs to
targeted groups in a range of community settings.
• Lawmakers are required, as are standards bodies that determine aspects
such as legal Breath Alcohol Content when driving, issues relating to road
worthiness, helmet and vehicle standards.
Partnerships at the community level empowers all involved in the entire process
– from action, identification, implementation, monitoring and evaluation –
which eventually ensures sustainability because it challenges beneficiaries to
be responsible for the success of the programmes, projects and systems.
A good partnership has wide representation and this becomes a process
approach where everyone pulls together to get the safest road users in the
safest vehicle on the safest roads.
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