By Kwan Pankumhang Achieving a helmet-wearing rate of 100 per cent is achievable as we learn from road safety stakeholders in Thailand. In January, the main organization responsible for road safety, the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (DDPM), under Ministry of Interior, organised an event titled, “Commemorating the Year of 100 per cent Safety…
In the near future, Slovenia will have to deal with the challenge of creating a coordinated and stable road safety system at the national, regional and local levels. Effective collaboration among road safety stakeholders is critical in order to meet this challenge. From the 19-20 March, Steve Proctor from TMS Consultancy and Kathleen Elsig from…
Closing a gap in road laws that currently exclude the requirement for passengers – particularly children – to wear a motorcycle helmet are now being addressed in Cambodia thanks to the leadership of the Global Road Safety Partnership and the support they have provided to the Cambodia Red Cross. In April, the National Road Safety…
Thanks to Renault, a valuable partner of the Global Road Safety Partnership, the first Masters programme of its kind in Road Safety Management now exists in the Arab world. Through its corporate foundation, the leading automotive French group has partnered with the prestigious Saint Joseph University (USJ) in Lebanon to establish a Multidisciplinary Chair for…
People attending the Global Road Safety Partnership Annual Meeting in Spa, Belgium will see and hear first-hand how lives can be saved when the public, private and civil-society sectors work together to reduce road-crash death and injury. Being held from 1-2 June during Renault’s 2012 World Series auto event, the GRSP annual meeting is being hosted…
The Global Road Safety Partnership for the Middle East and North Africa (GRSP MENA), has the pleasure to announce its first workshop within the framework of the EU-MENA support programme. The event will be held in Brussels on the 22nd and 23rd of May, 2012. Under the theme of “Road Safety Management”, this workshop will…
In a ceremony held in Brussels on 25 April, Royal Dutch Shell, one the largest worldwide oil companies and an active partner of the Global Road Safety Partnership, received the PRAISE Annual Award for Road Safety in the category of large companies. “Preventing Road Accidents and Injuries for the Safety of Employees” (PRAISE) is a…
One year in to the Decade of Action for Road Safety, the 66th UN General Assembly in New York ratified its latest resolution on global road safety on April 19, reaffirming its commitment to addressing the man-made humanitarian road crash crisis. The resolution calls upon states to carry out road safety activities in accordance with…
What motivates Omanis to attend a seminar in Thailand that addresses road safety in Asia? The Global Road Safety Partnership had the privilege to discover the answer first-hand during the annual seminar. “In Oman, we have many more road crash and injury problems with vehicles, and many less with motorcycles and bicycles. The problem in…
Following success in Malaysia, Viet Nam and New Zealand, this year it was the Philippines’ turn to win the 4th Intenrational Road Assessment Programme (iRAP) Asia Pacific Award for 2011, granted on 8 March during the Asia Seminar. “We are surprised that iRAP had chosen the Philippines, and we are also very thankful”, said Bert Suansing,…
By Deepa Pasupathy After a devastating tragedy that left the country inundated in water, emergency response officials in Thailand are facing a harsh reality that their response in terms of pre-hospital care is not yet up to par. The disastrous flash floods that occurred at the end of 2011 submerged over four hundred hospitals, crippling…
It happens every day: Red Cross and Red Crescent volunteers saving the lives of people who fall victim to road crashes. Khin Khin Shein, who heads the First Aid and Safety Services Division for the Myanmar Red Cross Society tells of a recent first-hand experience when a delegation from Japan visited a rural Myanmar township…
“In the past 10 years, the number of registered vehicles have increased enormously in Myanmar”, explained Professor Thit Lwin, Head of Orthopedic Surgery at Yangon General Hospital and Project Manager for the Injury Prevention project at the Ministry of Health.“Road safety is a surging problem in our country, and the second highest cause of death…
The past few years, the Global Road Safety Partnership has worked closely with the European Transport Safety Counctil (ETSC) to run the annual PRAISE seminar. The ETSC project, Preventing Road Accidents and Injuries for the Safety of Employees (PRAISE), aims to increase road safety in the work context. ETSC’s project aims to “praise” best practices in…
For many of people today, social media can be intimidating or simply uninteresting. Yet whether or not you use it, one thing is certain – social media is having a major impact around the world today in terms of how we communicate and interact. As you read these words, people may be talking about your…
