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International Standard for Road Safety Management - 39001
The International Organization for Standardization is the world’s largest developer and publisher of International Standards. The organization defines and establishes standards designed to address business, commerce, and trade, promote healthy and safe practices, and advance and share technological progress. ISO standards are developed by a consensus of expert opinion. Standards are voluntary and are developed in response to a market demand. Under the leadership of Claes Tingvall, Chair of ISO/PC241 on road traffic safety management, ISO has undertaken the development of a new standard for a road safety management system – ISO 39001. Over 30 countries and organizations, including the World Health Organization, the World Bank, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development/International Transport Forum (OECD/ITF), the Global Road Safety Partnership, and the Global Road Safety Forum will be contributing to the development of the standard. Recently Mark Rosenberg was interviewed by the staff of ISO Focus on how ISO might contribute to safer roads.
Read Mark Rosenberg's interview with ISO ►
In a Boston Globe op-ed Dr. Mark Rosenberg discusses how roads can be designed to save pedestrian lives and shares his personal experience with a pedestrian death. [Read the op-ed]
Dr. Kevin Watkins, Director of UNESCO’s Education for All Global Monitoring Report and a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Global Economic Governance Programme, Oxford University, and Dr Devi Sridhar, a Senior Researcher at the Global Economic Governance Programme authored a policy briefing on road safety on behalf of the Make Roads Safe Campaign. The policy briefing was provided as background for the November ministerial on global road safety. The briefing outlines the rationale for making road traffic injuries a health and development priority. [Read the report]
Every 3 minutes a child is killed on the world's roads.
"Road deaths represent a huge burden on our health systems and an obstacle to our efforts to overcome poverty. I call on the world community to work together to make our roads safe". - Archbishop Desmond Tutu

