Posted By Paul Smith
Hi Everyone,

I've dropped in here looking for information, advice and contact with skilled safety people with particular regard to road safety in the UK. I operate the SafeSpeed web site which campaigns against modern dumb road safety policy in the UK based largely on speed enforcement. http://www.safespeed.org.uk

The UK roads are just about the safest in the world, but since 1993 we've been losing our lead. The fatal accident rate shows a very worrying trend indeed. I believe we have the best record because of a long established safety culture, based largely on the skills and attitudes developed at the world's only centre of driving excellence - the Police Driver Training establishment at Hendon. Hendon attitudes pervaded the culture via legislation, recommendations to drivers and the driving test itself.

With modern dumb speed enforcement we're turning our backs on these sound principles and the roads are getting more dangerous as a direct consequence.

I'm interested in developing the case for a new wave of culture based safety improvements based as ever on spotting dangerous behavious and correcting them at an early stage. We'd move away for excessive speed enforcement and instead concentrate on getting drivers to learn from their minor mistakes.

Would anyone with experience of these sorts of approach (probably in an industrial context) like to assist?

Best Regards,
Paul Smith
Safe Speed

Posted By Paul Smith
Thanks for your response.

It wasn't really what I was looking for, but prompts me to provide a little more detail.

I'd really like to combine my existing knowledge with the best in health and safety practice to develop a broad proposal which would then be widely submitted as a discussion document.

However, various road safety organisations including RoSPA are aware of the views and a liason officer has been appointed.

Thanks for your reply.

Best Reagrds,
Paul Smith,
Safe Speed
http://www.safespeed.org.uk