ROAD SAFETY - FURTHER READING

“Driving at work - Managing work related road-safety”

Published by the Health and Safety Executive. Single copies are available free from PO Box 1989, Sudbury, Suffolk CO10 2WA. Tel: 01787 881165

It can also be downloaded from the information page of their website:

http://www.hse.gov.uk/roadsafety/index.htm

It is reviewed in YHTAR newsletter Issue Number 13 (Nov 2003) page 12

“Managing Road Risk - An introductory guide for employers”

Published by Fleet Safety Forum, a division of Brake http://www.brake.org.uk £9.75 including post and packaging. Authors:
Dr Will Murray, head of Transport and Logistics Research Unit, University of Huddersfield.
Roger Bibbings, occupational road risk manager, Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA).

Reviewed in YHTAR newsletter Issue Number 10 (Sept 2002) page 7.

The following can be downloaded form the publications page of the Slower Speeds Initiative:

“Speed cameras - 10 myths”
A six page research briefing prepared by the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety and the Slower Speeds Initiative. It reviews ten common criticisms of cameras and examines the research evidence surrounding them. Published December 2003.

“Killing Speed: a guide to speed management”
This Guide draws together examples of effective speed management from Britain and from overseas.

It sets out the rationale for speed management and surveys the legislation under which local authorities can introduce their own speed management initiatives. The Guide examines comprehensive speed management strategies in three local authorities, as well as individual initiatives from many other areas. It assesses the results of these schemes and points to new ways of dealing with speed in the future. Published 2001.

“Speed limiters”
A one page factsheet looking at the use and benefits of in vehicle speed limiters.
Published March 2004.

Intelligent Speed Adaptation

Reports from the University of Leeds Institute for Transport Studies on their website http://www.its.leeds.ac.uk/projects/ISA/index.htm

Safety Camera Partnerships Websites

These sites are similar but all have good advice and slightly different information.

National: www.nationalsafetycameras.co.uk/
For complete list of sites: www.checkyourspeed.org.uk/fe/default.asp?n1=26&n2=30

DfT Rule Book for the Safety Camera Scheme

Buy a car sticker saying “Stick to the limit”: www.sticktothelimit.com/index.htm

YHTAR 2003 Road Safety Seminar Report in YHTAR Focus newsletter Issue Number 12 (June 2003)

For further information see YHTAR website Links Page.