ISO 39001 - Road Traffic Safety Management System
Road traffic accidents are the largest cause of occupational fatality in most developed countries. Without taking precaution, road traffic accidents will cause serious injuries or result in loss of lives. The challenge for organizations goes beyond providing an emergency response plan or having established first aid processes that were previously used. Organizations of all sizes and types, regardless whether they are involved directly or indirectly in a road traffic system or simply generating road traffic, should engage in a comprehensive, systematic, preventive, protective, preparatory, and mitigation process. It is no longer sufficient to simply draft a response plan that anticipates and minimizes the consequences of road traffic crashes. Organizations must take adaptive and proactive measures to reduce the probability of such an event.
ISO 39001 is important for road safety since organizations must develop road traffic safety plans to ensure smooth operation within their working environment, as they aim to improve the safety of their drivers, increase legal compliance, reduce injuries and deaths, reduce work absences, and reduce crash-related costs.
ISO 39001, the world’s first international standard for Road Traffic Safety Management, has been recently developed to help organizations improve the safety of road users and minimize the risks of disruptions.
ISO has officially launched the ISO 39001 “Road Traffic Safety (RTS) Management System – Requirements with guidance for use”. This standard crowns earlier partial.
Attempts of different programs such as “Vision Zero” developed in Sweden, and the World Bank Global Road Safety Facility Road Safety Management System Framework.
An overview of ISO 39001: 2012
ISO 39001 specifies requirements to plan, establish, implement, operate, monitor, review, maintain and continually improve a management system, to prepare for, respond to and deal with the consequences of road incidents when they occur.
The requirements laid down in ISO 39001 are generic, flexible and useful to all types of organizations. Organizations and their leadership can show their commitment to the Global Decade of Action for Road Safety (2011-2020) by becoming ISO 39001 certified.
In view of the fact that ISO 39001 is one of the most recently published management system standards that fully integrates a high level structure (ISO/Guide 83) and comprises common text with other standards, it is totally aligned with all other management systems once the related standards have also adopted the ISO Guide 83 guidelines.
What is Road Traffic Safety Management System?
RTSMS is a part of the management system, which sets the conditions and factors related to road traffic crashes and other road traffic incidents that have an impact on, or have the potential to have an impact on death or serious injury of road users.
