Road Safety Leadership and Management Training Course

Duration 5 days 10 modules · 33 contact hours
Level Intermediate Certificate on completion
Who attends Road Safety Directors, Transport Ministry Managers and others
Fee from USD 1,100 KSh 95,000 for Kenyan organisations
Where 52 cities + online See dates by city
Next start 7 Nov 2026 Course code SD-GPS-054

Before you join: Participants should have professional experience in transport, policing, public health, urban planning, infrastructure, fleet management, development programming or a related public-sector function.

Dates & prices

Two start dates a month in every city, and live online on weekdays or weekends. Fees are per participant; classroom fees include tuition, materials, lunch and refreshments, and the certificate.

Suggest a date or city

Showing the next six months. Later dates, other cities and private deliveries for your team are available on request.

Course overview

Road traffic deaths and serious injuries impose major human, fiscal and service-delivery costs on governments and development partners. Leaders must make difficult choices between competing transport priorities, coordinate agencies with different mandates, direct limited budgets towards proven measures and sustain public support for enforcement and infrastructure changes. Weak crash data, fragmented responsibilities and projects focused on single behaviours can leave the highest risks untreated.

This course develops the management capability to lead a Safe System road safety programme. Participants examine the roles of transport, police, health, education, planning and finance agencies; diagnose risk using crash, exposure and infrastructure data; and select countermeasures for speed, roads, vehicles, road users and post-crash care. They work with the Haddon Matrix, iRAP Star Ratings, ISO 39001 concepts, results frameworks and costed action-plan methods. The course also addresses political decision-making, stakeholder resistance, procurement requirements, communications and performance review.

Teaching combines instructor briefings, public-sector and development cases, facilitated group analysis, decision simulations and structured planning work. Cases reflect urban corridors, rural highways, school zones, motorcycle safety, fleet operations and emergency response systems. Participants leave with a practical road safety leadership pack: a risk diagnosis, governance model, prioritised intervention plan, monitoring framework and personal 90-day implementation plan. The course is delivered over five days in a classroom in 50+ cities or live online, with approximately 6.5 contact hours each day. Participants receive a certificate of completion.

The course is suited to public officials, programme managers and partner organisations responsible for road safety policy, transport investment, enforcement, public health, humanitarian logistics or fleet risk.

What you will be able to do

  • Diagnose road safety problems using linked crash, exposure and infrastructure data.
  • Apply Safe System and Haddon Matrix principles to intervention decisions.
  • Set risk-based priorities for speed management, safer roads and vulnerable road users.
  • Design governance arrangements using lead-agency roles, RACI and accountability mechanisms.
  • Develop costed road safety action plans with owners, milestones and funding sources.
  • Specify road safety requirements within infrastructure, enforcement and fleet procurement.
  • Construct results frameworks, indicators and evaluation plans for road safety programmes.
  • Present evidence-based safety cases to senior decision-makers and partner agencies.

Benefits of attending

For you

  • Ability to brief senior officials on safety risks and intervention trade-offs
  • Practical method for prioritising fatality and serious-injury reduction measures
  • Stronger capability to coordinate police, health, transport and planning agencies
  • Confidence to challenge weak road safety proposals using evidence and standards
  • Reusable plan for advancing a defined road safety priority after the course

For your organisation

  • Clearer accountability for road safety decisions across responsible agencies
  • Better targeting of budgets towards proven risk-reduction measures
  • More consistent safety requirements in infrastructure and fleet procurement
  • Earlier identification of high-risk corridors, locations and user groups
  • Stronger reporting on fatalities, serious injuries and programme performance

Course modules

10 modules over 5 days

Participants can define road safety leadership responsibilities, decision rights and institutional accountabilities.

  • Global Plan for the Decade of Action priorities and targets
  • Public health, transport and policing mandates mapped through RACI
  • Road safety lead-agency functions, authority and accountability arrangements
  • Political economy factors affecting enforcement, funding and institutional coordination
  • Vision Zero principles translated into national and municipal leadership commitments
  • Ethical decisions following fatal and serious-injury crash events

Participants can apply Safe System principles to prioritise interventions that reduce fatal and serious injuries.

  • Safe System principles: human fallibility, kinetic energy and shared responsibility
  • Haddon Matrix separates pre-crash, crash and post-crash countermeasures
  • Fatality prevention priorities set using exposure, risk and vulnerability
  • Speed management matched to road function and roadside protection
  • Forgiving-road design requirements that reduce consequences of predictable human error
  • System-wide treatment packages rather than isolated behaviour-change campaigns
  • Equity impacts assessed for pedestrians, cyclists, children and disabled people

Participants can interpret road safety data to identify priority risks, locations and populations.

  • Crash-data systems: police, hospital, insurance and road-authority sources
  • Minimum data set fields, definitions, coding and quality controls
  • Underreporting estimated through police-hospital record linkage and capture-recapture methods
  • Network screening identifies high-risk corridors, intersections and vulnerable-user locations
  • Exposure measures distinguish risk per trip, distance, population and vehicle
  • Collision diagrams and heat maps reveal recurring crash patterns
  • iRAP Star Ratings interpret infrastructure risk before serious crashes occur

Participants can design risk-based speed management and enforcement approaches with credible compliance measures.

  • Safe-speed limits derived from road function, conflict points and protection
  • Speed-limit credibility tested against geometry, access and operating speeds
  • Section control, point cameras and manual enforcement deployment criteria
  • General deterrence strengthened through certainty, celerity and fair penalties
  • Traffic calming selection: gateways, humps, chicanes, raised crossings and road diets
  • Before-and-after speed studies account for regression to the mean
  • Enforcement protocols protect legality, due process and public legitimacy

Participants can specify and prioritise infrastructure measures that reduce road-user risk.

  • Road safety audit stages: feasibility, design, construction and pre-opening
  • Road safety inspection identifies hazards on existing road networks
  • iRAP risk factors inform prioritised infrastructure treatment programmes
  • Pedestrian crossing design considers desire lines, delay and vehicle speeds
  • Motorcycle, cycling and freight conflicts addressed through separation and visibility
  • Work-zone traffic management applies temporary traffic-control risk assessments
  • Maintenance defects prioritised using severity, exposure and repair urgency

Participants can combine behaviour, vehicle and emergency-response measures within a coordinated safety programme.

  • Graduated driver licensing reduces novice-driver exposure to high-risk conditions
  • Seat-belt, helmet and child-restraint programmes combine law and compliance
  • Fleet safety management covers journey planning, fatigue and vehicle checks
  • Vehicle inspection regimes target brakes, tyres, lighting and crashworthiness
  • Post-crash response maps notification, dispatch, extrication and trauma-care delays
  • Emergency-care indicators measure response times, survival and rehabilitation access
  • Community engagement reaches informal transport operators and high-risk groups

Participants can establish governance and management arrangements for a coordinated road safety strategy.

  • ISO 39001 requirements link policy, objectives, operational control and review
  • Lead-agency governance establishes decision rights, escalation and ministerial reporting
  • National strategy logic models connect actions, outputs and fatality outcomes
  • Costed action plans assign owners, milestones, dependencies and funding sources
  • Interagency memoranda define data sharing, enforcement and emergency-response roles
  • Budget cases compare intervention costs with avoided deaths and injuries
  • Procurement specifications embed road-safety performance requirements and acceptance criteria

Participants can design implementable road safety programmes with clear delivery controls and stakeholder strategies.

  • Problem statements define target populations, locations, behaviours and injury severity
  • Theory of change links interventions to measurable causal pathways
  • Countermeasure selection uses evidence ratings, local feasibility and equity tests
  • Implementation plans sequence legal reform, engineering, enforcement and communications
  • Risk registers assign owners, controls, triggers and review dates
  • Partner mapping identifies influence, interests, incentives and resistance
  • Communications plans avoid victim-blaming and test message comprehension

Participants can build monitoring and evaluation arrangements that support corrective management decisions.

  • Results frameworks separate inputs, activities, outputs, outcomes and impact
  • Leading indicators track speed compliance, infrastructure risk and enforcement activity
  • Fatality and serious-injury targets use baselines, trajectories and disaggregation
  • Evaluation designs use comparison sites, time series and exposure adjustment
  • Before-after studies address regression, seasonality and concurrent interventions
  • Dashboard specifications define audience, indicator ownership, refresh frequency and thresholds
  • Management reviews convert performance findings into corrective action decisions

Participants can communicate a road safety case and prepare an accountable implementation plan.

  • Executive briefings present safety cases, trade-offs and decisions required
  • Stakeholder workshops reconcile transport efficiency, access, enforcement and safety priorities
  • Media protocols communicate fatal-crash information accurately and respectfully
  • Community feedback channels record concerns, response commitments and closure dates
  • Personal 90-day action plans specify priorities, sponsors, milestones and measures
  • Peer review tests plans against Safe System and implementation risks
  • Application commitments establish reporting cadence and accountability conversations

Exercises and examples are adapted to each cohort's sectors and roles.

What you take back to work

  1. Safe System road safety diagnostic template
  2. Lead-agency governance and RACI model
  3. Costed road safety action-plan template
  4. Risk-based countermeasure prioritisation matrix
  5. Road safety monitoring and evaluation framework
  6. Personal 90-day implementation plan

Who should attend

  • Road Safety Directors — accountable for national or municipal safety strategy delivery
  • Transport Ministry Managers — responsible for investment priorities, policy and implementation
  • Traffic Police Commanders — directing enforcement resources and compliance programmes
  • Public Health Officials — linking injury surveillance, prevention and trauma-care improvement
  • Development Programme Managers — managing donor-funded transport and urban mobility portfolios
  • Humanitarian Logistics Managers — reducing fleet, driver and journey risks during operations

Skills and tools covered

Safe System leadershipCrash data analysisSpeed managementRoad safety governanceProgramme designPerformance evaluation

Tools and standards

Safe System, Haddon Matrix, ISO 39001, iRAP Star Rating

How the course runs

Training methodology

The course uses short instructor briefings to establish methods, followed by public-sector cases, facilitated group work, data interpretation tasks and decision simulations. Participants assess realistic road safety situations such as a high-risk urban corridor, a rural highway programme, motorcycle fatalities and weak post-crash response. Group discussions test competing priorities among transport, police, health and finance stakeholders. Structured application planning helps each participant translate course methods into actions for their own institution, programme or operating area.

Requirements and prerequisites

Participants should have professional experience in transport, policing, public health, urban planning, infrastructure, fleet management, development programming or a related public-sector function. They should understand how their organisation approves plans, budgets or operational decisions and be comfortable discussing basic performance data. Familiarity with local road safety issues is useful, but specialist crash-analysis, engineering or statistical expertise is not required. The course does not require prior knowledge of ISO 39001, iRAP, formal evaluation methods or road safety audit procedures.

A typical training day

08:30 – 10:30First session
10:30 – 10:45Refreshment break
10:45 – 12:30Second session
12:30 – 13:30Lunch and networking
13:30 – 15:00Third session
15:00 – 15:15Refreshment break
15:15 – 16:30Workshop and daily review

Live online deliveries follow the same structure in East Africa Time, with shorter screen blocks and longer breaks.

What the fee includes

  • Instruction by a practitioner facilitator
  • Full course workbook and materials
  • Exercise files, templates and case studies
  • Refreshments and lunch on classroom deliveries
  • Certificate of completion
  • Post-course application plan

Frequently asked questions

Participants need relevant professional experience in a public-sector, development, transport, policing, health, infrastructure or fleet role. Specialist engineering, crash-data analysis and statistical training are not required.

Bring details of a road safety issue, programme, corridor, fleet operation or policy challenge relevant to your work. A laptop is useful for live online delivery and for retaining course templates, but no specialised software is needed.

It is designed for managers and technical leaders who influence road safety policy, investment, enforcement, programme delivery or partner coordination. It is particularly relevant where responsibilities are shared across several agencies.

This course focuses on leadership, governance, programme design, prioritisation and performance management across the Safe System. It introduces infrastructure risk methods, but does not train participants to perform detailed engineering design or formal road safety audits.

Participants use their own work context when developing a risk diagnosis, governance approach and implementation plan. The templates can support strategy reviews, funding submissions, interagency meetings, project design and management reporting.

Each day runs from 08:30 to 16:30 and provides approximately 6.5 contact hours. Time is divided between instructor input, case analysis, group tasks, simulations and structured planning, covering ten modules in teaching order.

Questions about this course?

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