Transport Safety Policy - Worcestershire County Council

2.7.1 The Road Traffic Act 1988 (Section 39) specified that local highway authorities must provide a roadsafety service which includes education, training and publicity (ETP) programmes and engineeringschemes.2.7.2 In 2006 the Audit Commission published the Changing Lanes report. The report recognises thatwhile vast improvements that have been made to road safety via engineering schemes, humanbehaviour contributes to almost all accidents (road conditions and vehicle defects are involved infewer than 20 per cent). Education, training and publicity are therefore vital to further reducingcasualty numbers.2.7.3 Worcestershire County Council continues to work directly with the Road Safety Partnership inWest Mercia, for a more direct and joined up approach to Road Safety Education inWorcestershire. Currently excellent work is being undertaken within our schools through anumber of individual agencies, each working to their own agenda. There remains, however, a realneed to encompass it under a 'branded message', with each of the agencies working towards a coordinatedprogramme under the collective partnering arrangements of the Safer RoadsPartnership. A copy of the brand is provided in Figure 2.3.Figure 2.3 – Worcestershire Safer Roads Partnership Branding