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Guidance

Safety Management

  • Management Approach to Highway Safety (A Compiliation of Good Practices)"
  • Implementing Local Agency Safety Management "A Partnership to save lives and reduce collisions on county roads and city streets." A brochure explaining what a Safety Management System (SMS) is and how it can help your local community build safer roads.
  • Safety Management Systems - Good Practices for Development and Implementation [PDF, 83KB]
    The purpose of this document is to provide general guidance to managers and safety specialists on the formulation of a SMS.  It is directed to the State level, but can be adapted to political subdivisions and others.
  • Safety Management Systems: A Synthesis of Highway Practice (NCHRP Synthesis 322) - This 2003 National Cooperative Highway Research Program synthesis report provides an overview of current transportation agency practices, recent literature findings, and reviews of two model state SMS initiatives. According to the report, benefits derived from the SMS process are increased coordination, cooperation, and communication among state agencies and improvements to data analysis and collection procedures, as well as collaborative strategic plans.
  • Integrated Safety Management Process (NHCPR Report 501) [PDF, 1.6MB] - This 2003 National Cooperative Highway Research Program report presents the findings of a research project to develop an integrated safety management process. The process is a tool to assist in integrating safety-related implementation actions by proposing a method for bringing together agencies within a jurisdiction that are responsible for highway safety.
  • Florida’s Safety Management System
  • Iowa’s Safety Management System

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