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The European Road Safety Auditor Training SyllabusThe draft Directive states that training and certification of safety personnel bymeans of training curricula and tools for qualification validated by MemberStates should ensure that practitioners get the necessary up-to-dateknowledge.There are four elements of the directive:o Road Safety Impact Assessment – a strategic comparative analysis ofthe impact of a new road or a substantial modification to the existingnetwork on the safety performance of the road network;o Road Safety Audits – a detailed systematic and technical safetycheck relating to the design characteristics of a roadinfrastructure project and covering all stages from planning toentry into operation;o Safety Development of the road network in operation – the reduction offuture accidents by targeting remedial treatments to parts of thenetwork where, respectively, accidents occurred most frequently duringprevious years and accident cost reduction potential is the highest. Thisaspect is also known as ‘Road Safety Engineering’ in some MemberStates;o Safety Inspections –periodical routine visual check of features anddefects that require maintenance intervention for safety reasons.If implemented, the Directive would require Member States to enact legislationto ensure that the above activities take place on those parts of the Trans-European Road Network within their jurisdiction. Articles 3, 4, 5 & 6 of theDirective refer to each of the four elements described above. With respect toRoad Safety Audits, Article 4 (2) states that Member States shall ensure thatan auditor is appointed to carry out this work, and Article 9 sets out thetraining requirements for such auditors.The training requirements include the need for pre-auditing experience, formaltraining, certification of competence, and periodic re-trainingThis document provides the basis for a Road Safety Audit teaching syllabusthat could be adopted by Member States as a mechanism for training RoadSafety Auditors. In addition to the syllabus, the document comments on pretrainingexperience/qualifications, and also on certification of competence.© EURO-AUDIT, all rights reserved. 4