WHO focuses on five risk factors and two additional areas of concern for road traffic injuries and deaths including Speeding, Helmet use, Seatbelt Use, Drunk Driving and Distraction. For long-term improvements, WHO advises a comprehensive approach involving multiple sectors and taking into account vehicles, road users and the road environment. In the short term, some results can be achieved through costeffective interventions such as comprehensive road safety legislation, law enforcement and awareness-raising campaigns.
2-day “Road Safety Risk Factors Workshop for Local Road Authority Managers” was held to lay the stress on the importance and consequences of improving theses risk factors and 30 participants were asked to think about how they can contribute to safety improvement in their area.
Out-of -box thinking and root cause analysis methods such as Fishbone and 5-why’s techniques applied to road safety issues and the attendants had to draw their special case improvement plan on the paper and present it!
Nassir Baradaran Rahmanian and Ali Zayerzadeh, were the workshop facilitators.
