Safety management systems project

Purpose

To promote the adoption of safety management systems by Road Controlling Authorities (RCAs) to ensure that decisions about construction, maintenance and management of the road networks consider safety and help achieve targets and goals identified in national and local road safety strategies.

Objectives

• Guidelines developed and published for safety management systems (SMS)
• Roading professionals, transport planners and RCA decision makers educated on significance of road safety engineering in the governments road safety strategy
• RCAs participating in voluntary SMS programme
• Appropriate expertise developed in the roading profession
• Progress assessed on implementing a consistent SMS approach across New Zealand's road network as the basis for further development

Project approach

The project comprises 5 main parts:

Guidelines

Facilitating RCAs' participation in the programme by producing guidelines for safety management system development, implementation and audit.

Marketing

Promoting RCAs' participation in the programme by educating roading professionals, transport planners and RCA decision makers on the significance of road safety engineering and especially safety management systems the government's Road Safety to 2010 strategy and the NZ Transport Strategy.

Demonstration

Encouraging RCAs to participate in a voluntary safety management systems programme with the Land Transport New Zealand and act as demonstration projects for further refinement of the voluntary approach sought by government.

Expertise development

Facilitating RCAs participation in the programme by developing appropriate expertise in the roading profession.

Auditing

Review, monitor, evaluate and report on the demonstration programme to assess progress on implementing a consistent safety management systems approach across New Zealand's road network, and provide the basis for considering improvements to the safety management systems approach.

SMS project guidelines

• Overview of a road safety management system
• Guidelines for developing and implementing a safety management system for road controlling authorities
  - Part 1    Development guidelines
  - Part 2    Implementation guidelines
  - Part 3    Toolbox
  - Part 4    Examples
• Quick check sheets (PDF, 1.68 MB) - an example of visual check sheets used by Hamilton City Council for their and contractor field staff to assess common maintenance issues. Note the intervention levels shown reflect their requirements
• Quick check sheet reporting form (PDF, 54.4 KB) - an example of a form for reporting roading deficiencies identified by using the quick check sheets.
• Deficiency database and prioritisation course

SMS related reports

• Conference papers
  • Operational Implementation of a Safety Management System, Transit NZ/ NZIHT conference, Christchurch, November 2005
  • Developing and Implementing Safety Management Systems within New Zealand Road Controlling Authorities, ITE conference, Melbourne, August 2005
  • Implementation of road safety management systems in New Zealand, Road Safety Police Education Research Conference, September 2004
  • Safety management systems : raising the profile of road safety engineering, IPENZ conference, 2004 (PDF, 27 KB)
  • Developing a safety management system for Local Authorities, Road Safety Police Education Research Conference, Sydney 2003
• Reports
  • Deficiency database & prioritisation process project, November 2005 (PDF, 847 KB)
  • Standards and guidelines assessment, 2006, Jackett Consulting, June 2006 (PDF, 286 KB)
  • Theme audit of safety management system uptake, Jackett Consulting, July 2007 (PDF 1.58 MB).
• SMS workshop proceedings
  • Proceedings of the national SMS workshop, 19 June 2007 (PDF, 72 KB)
  • Proceedings of the national SMS workshop, 21 June 2006 (PDF, 62 KB)
  • Proceedings of the national SMS workshop, 22 June 2005 (PDF, 95 KB)
  • Proceedings of the SMS workshop, 15 July 2004 (PDF, 65 KB)
  • Proceedings of the SMS review workshops, 18 September 2003 (PDF, 146 KB)

RCAs uptake

• RCAs uptake of Safety Management Systems (revised)

SMS examples

• Marlborough Roads (refer to original development guidelines)
• Invercargill City Council (refer to original development guidelines)
• Rodney District Council (refer to original development guidelines: Appendix A)
• Rangitikei/Ruapehu/Wanganui District Councils (refer revised development guidelines Part 4 C, 2005)
• Palmerston North City (refer revised development guidelines Part 4 D, 2005)
• RCA safety management systems peer groups

Click here for links to other examples of SMS projects undertaken by RCAs.

Further Information

For further information or to provide feedback in the project contact:
Bill Greenwood
Principal Engineer - Network Management
Land Transport New Zealand
National Office
PO Box 2840
Wellington
New Zealand
Phone:64 (04) 931 8702 or 021 921 897
Fax: 64 (04) 931 8704
4th Floor, NZ Post House
7 Waterloo Quay
WELLINGTON

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