SAFE SYSTEM APPROACH WITH ISO39001

Professor Dr. Wong Shaw Voon

Chair, TC Road Traffic Safety Management System,

National Mirror Committee to ISO TC 241on ISO39001

Chair, ISO TC 241 WG 5 on ISO 39002 Commuting Safety Management

En. Ahmard Ismail Amin

Member, TC Road Traffic Safety Manamgent System since 2008

Honorary Treasurer, Malaysian Road Safety Council

Council member, Penang Road Safety Council

SAFE SYSTEM PRINCIPLES

SAFE SYSTEM IS ….

• Evidence-based approach,

• Building upon existing best

practice,

• Results-focused road safety

management, and

• Promoting innovation based

on well-established scientific

safety principles

• Safe System targets all elements of road traffic

system design, operation and use, to better

accommodate common human error and known

human tolerance to injury.

• The long-term goals, supported by interim

quantitative targets, is for roads and traffic which are

eventually free from death and serious injury

Why Safe System

• 50s-60s - bias towards human behavioural measures

• rather then the causes of the crashes are related the

inherent risks of using road

• Pilot Error Syndrome

• Injury because of human tolerance; in 70s, by Haddon -

ten-point strategy

• gaps in the system, and management problem

ISO39001Road Traffic Safety Management System

ISO 39002

Good practices for implementing commuting safety management

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What is ISO 39001?

A global standard that sets minimum requirements

for a road traffic safety (RTS) management

system, to help prevent and reduce the risk of

road-related death and serious injury

a standard which is aligned with the best practice Safe

System goal and approach to road safety

an adaptable high level framework, designed to be

tailored to each organization’s specific needs

a management system standard that shares a

structure and core text with other key

international management system standards,

such as ISO 9001, ISO 45001, ISO 27001

The common structure

1. Scope

2. Normative references

3. Terms and definitions

4. Context of the

organization

5. Leadership

6. Planning

7. Support

8. Operation

9. Performance evaluation

10.Improvement

How does ISO 39001

differ from ISO 45001

ISO 39001 is specifically tailored to road traffic safety

management

ISO 45001 is a generic occupational health and safety

management system standard

ISO 39001 promotes the internationally recommended Safe

System approach and effective activity to produce better results

ISO 39001 includes a requirement to consider a range of RTS

performance factors, with examples based on different contexts

and also has requirements for crash investigation

ISO 39001 supports and can be integrated with ISO 45001

ISO 39002

Good Practices for Implementing

Commuting Safety Management

in Support of ISO 39001

Proven Scientifically, well accepted in OHS

Pillar One of UNDOA

The employers are able to influence and inculcate road

safety culture among their employees

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ISO45001 versus ISO39001

Not all types of commuting journey is accepted

as part of OHS

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Malaysian Social Security Organisation reported in 2017

47% Reported Accidents were commuting

72% reported Fatalities were commuting

Scope

❖ Guideline for good practices. Adoptable by typical

organizations

❖ Commuting safety management in a systematic and

flexible approach

❖ Ensuring continuous improvement to their practices

❖ Measures and initiatives that can be taken by

organisation (including school) to mitigate

commuting risks to its commuters

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What is Commuting Crash

❖ crash in which a commuter is involved while travelling:

❖ between their home or temporary lodgings and place of

work / study;

❖ on a journey made that is connected to their

employment / study;

❖ on a journey made during an authorized break.

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Who is the Commuter

❖ Those individuals traveling to or from the place of work

or study, to whom an organization owes a duty of care.

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ROAD SAFETY IS IMPORTANT TO UN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

ISO 39001 - IMPORTANT TOOL

SUSTAINABLE - IT HAS TO BE SAFE

• LLM is certified with ISO39001, very recently

• Road and Highway operators are encouraged to

adopt ISO39001 with ISO39002

• Propose LLM to ensure all highway operators to

make suitability information, including Road Safety,

available in their periodic reporting - Aligning with

the United National and Malaysia Sustainable

Development Goals

Thank you

Together we can Design, Construction and Operator Safer Road Infrastructures

It has to be safe in order to be sustainable

2nd meeting 10-13th February 2009, Shah Alam