ISO 39001 is an international standard that focuses on requirements and guidelines for road traffic management systems. ISO 39001 specifies requirements for a road traffic safety (RTS) management system to enable an organization that interacts with the road traffic system to reduce death and serious injuries related to road traffic crashes which it can influence.
The requirements in ISO 39001 include development and implementation of an appropriate RTS policy, development of RTS objectives and action plans, which consider legal and other requirements to which the organization subscribes, and information about elements and criteria related to RTS that the organization identifies as those which it can control and those which it can influence.
ISO 39001 on requirements and guidelines for road traffic management systems is useful for:
Road traffic safety (RTS) is a global concern. It is estimated that around 1,3 million people are killed and 20 million to 50 million are injured on roads around the world each year and that this level is rising. The socio-economic and health impacts are substantial.
ISO 39001 provides a tool to help organizations reduce, and ultimately eliminate, the incidence and risk of death and serious injury related to road traffic crashes. This focus can result in more cost-effective use of the road traffic system. ISO 39001 identifies elements of good RTS management practice that will enable the organization to achieve its desired RTS results.
The management system specified ISO 39001 focuses the organization on its RTS objectives and RTS targets and guides the planning of activities that will realize these goals by using a Safe System approach to RTS. Government cannot achieve these reductions alone. Organizations of all types and sizes, as well as individual road users, have a role to play. By adopting ISO 39001, organizations should be able to achieve:
ISO 39001:2012