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4. Training and
professional exchange
 Employs a variety of means for training and knowledge transfer
including professional exchange and attendance at road safety
courses, seminars and workshops.
5. Establishing good
practice guidelines
 Develops in-house or contracts out to research and professional
organisations the production and dissemination of good practice
guidelines which comprise a synthesis of universal road safety
principles in specific areas of road safety, advice on the general
means of applying them and illustrative case studies.
6. Setting up
demonstration
projects
 Develops and funds demonstration projects in areas which offer large
potential for road casualty reduction and uses the successful results
to roll-out the projects nationally.
Source: adapted from Bliss and Breen, 2009
4.3 Requirements Related to Interventions
Interventions are aimed at the source of the problem and are taken at the level where they occur
and serve as the bridge between the management functions and the outcomes. They are directed
at addressing problems related to the roads, drivers and vehicles, or managing the outcomes of
failures where these occur.
A lead agency has a guiding role in this and although it cannot be held accountable for all
interventions and their outcomes (this is the responsibility of the authority in whose jurisdiction
the problem is evident), the lead agency has a coordinating role in seeing that interventions are
taking at a system level rather than isolated and uncoordinated actions aimed at incidental
problems that have little effect on overall outcomes. These interventions are typically system
interventions and directed at large scale implementation requiring standardisation and
uniformity in approach. This demands a coordinated approach.
Interventions are aimed at three dimensions, as presented in and the lead agency has
the responsibility of providing the supporting framework necessary for implementing the
intervention.
Table 9: Interventions and supporting lead agency functions
Intervention Level or Dimension Examples of Supporting Road Safety Functions
1. Planning, design, operation and
use of road network
 Road network classification (safety)
 Blackspot programme
 Safe road design manuals
 RSIA/NSM/RSI/RSA
 Speed management
 Pedestrian Management plans