Work-related road safety in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States of America: an overview of regulatory approaches and recommendations to enhance strategy and practice

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• Personal Author:
  Murray W ; Pratt, Stephanie G. ; Stuckey R
• Description:
  Work-related travel and transport by road is fundamental for industry, government and organisations. Traditionally, road safety interventions at societal level have focussed on improving road and vehicle engineering and changing road-user behaviour through transport laws and safety campaigns. Crash data indicate that significant numbers of road-user fatalities occur while driving to or for work. Therefore, workplace initiatives can improve both road and worker safety. This paper reviews regulatory approaches to work-related road safety (WRRS) in Australia, the United Kingdom and United States, identifying significant and consistent gaps in policy, management and research. In all three countries, responsibility for managing and regulating WRRS is spread across government agencies, without a single coordinating body. This paper makes the case that integrating management of WRRS into regulatory and nonregulatory occupational health and safety (OHS) initiatives would foster and support collaboration between research and practice communities, ensuring a comprehensive evidence base for future programs. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Construction Industry Occupational Health Safety Safety Management Workplace
• Keywords:
  Construction Construction-industry Construction-workers Regulations Road-construction Road-surfacing Safety-climate Safety-measures Safety-practices Safety-research Surveillance Work-environment Work-practices Worker-health

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• ISSN:
  1832-9497
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSR - Division of Safety Research
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  10-20
• Volume:
  24
• Issue:
  3
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20043075
• Citation:
  J Australasian Coll Road Saf 2013 Aug; 24(3):10-20
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2013
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of the Australasian College of Road Safety
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:fa0cef795966a4e2ac9d9f377559148a89d4c965df3b1238f158c8eb9a8b40c8adf18fc253993f42cd9a80c482b18973be70116fc7fa3db98ac67f15e77c2322
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/195092/cdc_195092_DS1.pdf
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