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Preventing Road Accidents and Injuries for the Safety of Employees Preventing Road Accidents and Injuries for the Safety of Employees Project Handbook Members Board of directors Accident Research Unit, Medical University Hannover (D) Professor Herman De Croo Association Prévention Routière (F) Professor Richard Allsop Austrian Road Safety Board (KFV) (A) Dr. Walter Eichendorf Automobile and Travel Club Germany (ARCD) (D) Professor Pieter van Vollenhoven Belgian Road Safety Institute (IBSR/BIVV) (B) Professor G. Murray Mackay Central Denmark Region (Region Midtjylland) (DK) MEP Brian Simpson Centre for Transport and Logistics (CTL), MEP Ines Ayala Sender University of Rome “La Sapienza” (I) MEP Dieter-Lebrecht Koch Centro Studi Città Amica (CeSCAm),University of Brescia (I) MEP Corien Wortmann-Kool Chalmers University of Technology (S) Dirk STERCKX Confederación Nacional de Autoescuelas (CNAE) (ES) Confederation of Organisations in Road Transport Secretariat Enforcement (CORTE) (Int) Czech Transport Research Centre (CDV) (CZ) Antonio Avenoso, Executive Director Danish Road Safety Council (DK) Ellen Townsend, Policy Director Dutch Safety Board (NL) Graziella Jost, Director of Projects European Federation of Road Traffic Victims (FEVR) (Int) Ilyas Daoud, Project Officer Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM) (Int) Francesca Podda, Project Officer Finnish Motor Insurers’ Centre, Traffic Safety Julie Galbraith, Project Officer Committee of Insurance Companies VALT (FIN) Mircea Steriu, Communications Officer Finnish Traffic Safety Agency (Trafi) (FIN) Paolo Ferraresi, Financial Officer Flemish Foundation for Traffic Knowledge (VSV) (BE) Folksam Research (S) Fondazione ANIA (I) German Road Safety Council (Deutscher Verkehrssicherheitsrat) (DVR) (D) Global Road Safety Partnership (Int) PRAISE Thematic Reports Hellenic Institute of Transport (HIT) (GR) Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds (UK) Editors INTRAS - Institute of Traffic and Road Safety, University of Valencia (ES) Liikenneturva (FIN) Ellen Townsend Lithuanian National Association Helping Traffic Victims (NPNAA) (LT) [email protected] Motor Transport Institute (ITS) (PL) MOVING International Road Safety Association e.V. (Int) Julie Galbraith Norwegian Abstaining Motorists’ Association (NO) [email protected] OR YAROK (IL) Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety (PACTS) (UK) Road and Safety (PL) Road Safety Authority (IE) Road Safety Institute Panos Mylonas (GR) Road Traffic Safety Agency, Republic of Serbia (SRB) For more information about ETSC’s activities Safer Roads Foundation (UK) and membership, please contact: Slovenian Traffic Safety Agency (SI) ETSC Swedish National Society for Road Safety (S) Avenue des Celtes 20 Swiss Council for Accident Prevention (bfu) (CH) B-1040 Brussels Transport Infrastructure, Systems and Policy Group (TISPG) (PT) Tel. +32 2 230 4106 Trygg Trafikk - The Norwegian Council for Road Safety (NO) Fax. +32 2 230 4215 Transport Safety Research Centre, University of Loughborough (UK) E-mail: [email protected] University of Birmingham (UK) Internet: www.etsc.eu PRAISE receives financial support from the European Commission, the German Road Safety Council (DVR), Fundación MAPFRE and the Swiss Council for Accident Prevention (bfu). The contents of this publication are the sole responsibility of ETSC and do not necessarily reflect the views of sponsors. Foreword by Siim Kallas Vice-President for Transport, European Commission Each year, European roads are the scene of an unacceptable number of fatalities. Within that overall number, a large percentage of people lose their lives while driving as a part of their work, or while commuting to and from their workplace – by car, bicycle or motorcycle. Although the number of road fatalities has fallen by more than 40% over the last decade, there were still nearly 31,000 people killed on EU roads in 2010: the equivalent of the population of a medium-sized town. While I remain hopeful that we can fulfil our aim of moving close to zero fatalities in road transport by 2050 and of halving road casualties by 2020, there is clearly a long way to go. These ambitious targets will only be achieved through the active commitment of all parties involved. That is why I welcome projects such as PRAISE as a way to help employers secure high road safety standards for their employees – because improving work-related road safety also means improving the safety of European roads as a whole. PRAISE sets out to encourage the exchange of information, and to identify and promote best practices to cut down the tragic loss of life occurring every year on Europe’s roads. These are worthy actions which the European Commission wholeheartedly supports, in particular its thematic reports which tackle specific problem areas in work-related road transport. The Commission is already carrying out a great deal of work in this regard, with initiatives on training, education and safety awareness - ways to promote more use of safety equipment such as seatbelts and protective clothes, for example. In addition, the Commission will soon subject the EU’s existing rules on vehicle roadworthiness to an in-depth revision, including an extension of scope as well as measures to improve the efficiency of inspections. This will aim to reduce significantly the number of road accidents which are caused by technical defects. After all, if Europe’s roads are to be made safer, then the vehicles which travel on them must also be made safer. I am also convinced of the importance of making more and better use of intelligent transport systems and new technologies, the need for safer infrastructure and of improvements to the quality of the educational system, especially regarding young drivers. PRAISE has achieved a great deal by raising awareness, sharing research and knowledge, and identifying and tackling the key risk areas for work-related road transport. I applaud the project’s commitment to help us in our shared desire to make Europe’s roads a safer place to travel, for everyone. Preventing Road Accidents and Injuries for the Safety of Employees Praising Best Practice in Road Safety ‘At’ Work and ‘To’ Work “Mobilising knowledge to create work-related road safety leadership” Objectives: • Advance the need for work-related Road Safety Management and provide the know-how to employers who have to take on that challenge. • Discuss and expose the work-related road safety standards of EU Member States and carry out advocacy work at the EU level: work-related road safety is an area of road safety policy that clearly needs renewed political commitment. • Communicate the message that work-related road safety should include road safety ‘at’ work (driving on duty) but also road safety ‘to’ work What are the benefits? (commuting). • Reduced running costs through better driving Background: work-related road crashes…a standards (fuel consumption/vehicle maintenance rising concern costs); Using the roads is a necessary part of everyone’s • Making informed decisions about matters such daily business, often for work-related purposes. It as driver training and vehicle purchase; is therefore unacceptable that an ordinary activity leads to an incredibly high level of injury and death. • Fewer working days lost due to injury; Work-related crashes involve heavy goods vehicles • Reduced risk of work-related ill health; and buses, but also cars and light vans. It must be considered that the service sector often emphasises • Reduced stress and improved morale; the importance of travelling to meet clients on site and face-to-face. • Less need for investigation and paperwork; This is defined ‘mobile working’, where the car • Less lost time due to work rescheduling; becomes a de facto office for employees. Employers have a responsibility to provide their employees with • Fewer vehicles off the road for repair; a safe environment also on the roads. • Fewer missed orders and business opportunities ETSC launched PRAISE, a 3 year project addressing reduced risk of losing the goodwill of customers; all safety aspects of driving ‘at’ work and driving ‘to’ work, that aims to “praise” best practices in order to • Less chance of key employees being banned from help employers secure high road safety standards for driving; their employees. • Promoting sound health and safety driving practices may well spill over into private driving. “In Europe six out of ten work accidents “It is estimated that 40% of all road crashes resulting in death are road crashes, including involve people ‘on duty’ and people driving to both crashes while driving for work and work or returning from work.” commuting crashes.” (ORSA) (Eurogip) Deliverable: 3 PRAISE Seminars and Awards ETSC organises once a year, a high-level and highly visible event: the ‘PRAISE Seminar’ gathers decision makers and employers engaged in work-related road safety. The seminar is a means to publicly launch and present the Thematic Reports. the PRAISE Award, handed during the PRAISE Brunch to one employer identified for taking on the road safety challenge responsibly. Deliverable: 6 PRAISE Country Seminars How PRAISE works? What are the Deliverables? Every 6 months ETSC organised: Deliverable: 9 PRAISE Thematic Reports (20-30 pages) One Country Seminar focusing on one EU member state and its road safety standard. These brought • Thematic Reports: documents prepared by ETSC together key road safety professionals and national and its experts. For every thematic report ETSC decision-makers. will organise one expert meeting in Brussels with 3 road safety experts in
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