
Practical Road Safety Auditing
Thomas Telford Ltd (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 7. September 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
100 pages
978-0-7277-2938-5 (ISBN)
Description
The safe design of our road infrastructure is a key part of a comprehensive road safety plan. Road Safety Audits provide a vital role in checking that roads have been designed and built to the highest safety standards. Practical road safety auditing provides solutions to safety problems and a guide to best practice, drawing on the experience of some of the longest serving Safety Audit experts in the country. This book is a major step forward in improving the quality of Safety Audits.Practical road safety auditing brings together safety audit procedures proposed by the Highways Agency, the Institution of Highways and Transportation, local authorities and national government agencies. This essential new guide draws together this information in a format that the Safety Auditor can use at a practical level. The book contains examples of real road safety problems backed up by accident statistics, together with a number of successful solutions, supported by comprehensive evidence.Practical road safety auditing has been written by practising Safety Auditors, who between them have carried out over 1000 audits. The aim of this authoritative book is to teach and inform - a guide for those who commission and carry out Road Safety Audits and for those whose schemes are being audited.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Emerald Publishing Limited
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
400 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7277-2938-5 (9780727729385)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Introduction
Safety Audit procedures
The Safety Audit process
Safety Audit control data
Problems identified within Safety Audit reports
International experience
Legal implications of the Road Safety Audit process
Conclusions
Safety Audit procedures
The Safety Audit process
Safety Audit control data
Problems identified within Safety Audit reports
International experience
Legal implications of the Road Safety Audit process
Conclusions