Webinar: Introducing Austroads’ New Road Safety Auditing Guidance

This webinar will present the new Austroads Guide to Road Safety Part 6: Road Safety Audit.

Key topics covered in the webinar include:

• Strengthening the requirements within the Guide as the default for Australia and New Zealand and formal exemption protocol for jurisdictions.
• Identifying the roles, responsibilities and conduct required of all stakeholders to achieve optimum value from the process, especially including parties operating outside of the road agency, e.g. private sector clients. The importance of commissioning and responding to audits.
• The provision of further guidance and clarity on competency and qualification requirements to inform local protocols for the assessment across the tiers of auditor.
• Integration of road safety auditing within the Safe System and the emerging practical interface with recent tools such as Safe System Assessments.
• Improving the quality and consistency of how risks / hazards are expressed, assessed, and prioritised.
• New documents, templates and tools throughout the Guide, including audit checklists (now referred to as ‘prompt lists’), audit code of conduct, road safety audit policies, sample road safety audit reports etc.

The webinar will be presented by Paul Hillier (Project Consultant), Joseph Le (Co-Project Manager) and Kenn Beer (Co-Project Manager and Technical Advisor).

There will be opportunities for questions and answers at the end of the session.

Paul Hillier is a Principal Professional Leader at the Australian Road Research Board (ARRB). He has over 30 years road industry experience in total, with the last 16 years in senior technical roles at ARRB. Paul has worked in road network safety and risk management related disciplines throughout his career, including the commissioning, conduct, and analysis of outcomes from, road safety audits. Over the last decade he has been involved in the gap analysis/review of a number of jurisdictional road safety audit policies and practices, which has stood him in good stead to then become a lead figure in the development of most recent Austroads guidance in this field in 2019 and 2021.

Joseph Le has worked with the NSW Centre for Road Safety since 2014 and has been leading the road safety engineering team since 2017. Our team advises Transport for NSW, local government and industry on technical road safety advice, building and implementing assurance frameworks to embed road safety thinking, and monitoring the risk profile of the NSW road network (220,000kms of road). Joe manages the NSW Safer Roads Program, which has $800 million over 5 years to improve the road safety infrastructure of the road network.

Kenn Beer is the Principal Engineer of Safe System Solutions Pty Ltd. He is a registered professional engineer, Senior Road Safety Auditor and transport planner with further qualifications in training and assessment. Before founding Safe System Solutions Pty Ltd in 2013, Kenn worked at VicRoads in a variety of roles including Manager Program Development and Team Leader Road Safety Engineering. During his career Kenn has undertaken over 350 Road Safety Audits and 150 Safe System Assessments on some of Australia’s most high profile and complex infrastructure projects.

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