Road Traffic Safety Management Training Course

Duration 5 days 10 modules · 33 contact hours
Level Intermediate Certificate on completion
Who attends HSE Managers, Fleet 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-HM-075

Before you join: Participants should have basic experience of workplace health and safety, fleet operations, transport coordination, facilities management or operational risk management.

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.

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Course overview

Road traffic crashes involving employees, contractors, fleet vehicles and work-related journeys can cause fatality, injury, legal exposure, service interruption and significant financial loss. Many organisations have driver rules and vehicle checks but lack a managed system that identifies their highest road traffic risks, sets measurable safety objectives, assigns accountability and verifies whether controls reduce serious harm. ISO 39001 provides a structured route traffic safety management system framework for addressing these gaps.

This course explains how to establish, operate, assess and improve a road traffic safety management system aligned with ISO 39001. Participants examine the standard's requirements, the Safe System approach, road traffic safety performance factors and the Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle. They learn to define system scope, identify interested parties, assess journey and fleet risks, select controls, set targets, investigate collisions, monitor performance and prepare for internal audit or certification readiness.

Teaching combines short technical briefings with facilitated case work, group analysis, incident simulations and structured application planning. Cases reflect common organisational exposures, including employee commuting, contractor transport, vehicle fleets, delivery operations and journeys to remote sites. Participants leave with a practical ISO 39001 implementation pack containing a scope statement, stakeholder map, risk assessment structure, objectives register, performance dashboard and improvement plan that can be adapted for their employer.

The course suits HSE, transport, fleet, facilities, operations, procurement and assurance professionals who influence work-related road risk. It is particularly relevant where organisations manage vehicles directly, engage transport contractors, require staff to drive for work, or need to demonstrate disciplined road traffic safety governance to clients, regulators and insurers.

What you will be able to do

  • Interpret ISO 39001 requirements for a road traffic safety management system
  • Define road traffic safety scope, interested parties and governance responsibilities
  • Assess work-related road risks using exposure, severity and control-effectiveness criteria
  • Apply Safe System principles to select road user, vehicle and journey controls
  • Develop measurable road traffic safety objectives, targets and action plans
  • Investigate collisions using causal analysis and corrective-action methods
  • Conduct an ISO 39001 internal audit using evidence-based audit techniques
  • Produce a phased road traffic safety management system implementation plan

Benefits of attending

For you

  • Ability to design a structured work-related road safety programme
  • Practical confidence interpreting ISO 39001 clauses and documented-information requirements
  • Stronger capability to challenge weak fleet, driver and journey controls
  • Transferable methods for investigating collisions and preventing recurrence
  • Evidence for contributing to ISO 39001 implementation or audit projects

For your organisation

  • Clearer accountability for road traffic safety risks, decisions and resources
  • More consistent controls for drivers, vehicles, journeys and transport contractors
  • Earlier identification of high-exposure routes, behaviours and vehicle-risk factors
  • Better collision learning through structured investigation and corrective-action tracking
  • A documented basis for ISO 39001 certification preparation or system improvement

Course modules

10 modules over 5 days

Participants can explain the purpose, structure and intended application of ISO 39001.

  • Work-related road risk: fatalities, injuries, disruption, liability and reputation
  • ISO 39001:2012 purpose, scope, terminology and management-system structure
  • Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle applied to road traffic safety management
  • Safe System principles: safe roads, vehicles, speeds and road users
  • Road traffic safety performance factors within ISO 39001 planning
  • Relationship between ISO 39001, ISO 45001 and fleet policies

Participants can define system boundaries, interested parties and leadership accountabilities.

  • Context analysis using PESTLE, organisational boundaries and operational interfaces
  • Interested-party mapping for regulators, clients, workers, communities and insurers
  • Defining scope across fleets, contractors, commuting and business travel
  • Leadership commitments, road safety policy and accountable executive roles
  • RACI matrix for transport, HSE, procurement, operations and human resources
  • Documented information requirements for scope, policy and assigned responsibilities

Participants can identify, analyse and prioritise road traffic safety risks using defensible criteria.

  • Exposure profiles built from kilometres, journeys, drivers and vehicle types
  • Hazard identification covering speed, fatigue, distraction, impairment and vulnerable road users
  • Journey risk assessment using route, weather, timing and task factors
  • Risk matrices calibrated for credible fatal and serious-injury consequences
  • Bowtie analysis linking threats, preventive barriers and recovery controls
  • Contractor transport risk assessed through prequalification and operational oversight

Participants can select and manage driver and journey controls based on risk evidence.

  • Hierarchy of controls applied to work-related driving hazards
  • Journey management plans for remote travel, high-risk routes and emergencies
  • Fatigue risk controls: scheduling, hours, rest, reporting and escalation
  • Driver competence criteria covering licence checks, induction and refresher training
  • Telematics data used to address speeding, harsh braking and seatbelt use
  • Distraction controls for mobile devices, dispatch communication and in-vehicle tasks

Participants can specify vehicle-selection, inspection and maintenance controls for road safety.

  • Vehicle suitability assessed against load, route, weather and passenger requirements
  • Five-star vehicle safety features: airbags, ESC, ABS and speed assistance
  • Pre-use inspection checklists covering tyres, lights, brakes and restraints
  • Preventive maintenance schedules based on manufacturer requirements and operating exposure
  • Load-securing controls using restraint plans, payload limits and verification
  • Defect reporting, vehicle quarantine and repair-release authorisation procedures

Participants can create measurable road traffic safety objectives and controlled implementation plans.

  • SMART objectives linked to significant road traffic safety risks
  • Leading indicators: training completion, inspections, telematics and journey-plan compliance
  • Lagging indicators: crashes, injury severity, claims and vehicle damage
  • Target baselines established using exposure-normalised rates and trend data
  • Action plans assigning owners, resources, due dates and verification measures
  • Change management for new routes, vehicles, contracts and operating models

Participants can establish competence, communication and contractor-control arrangements supporting ISO 39001.

  • Competence matrices for drivers, supervisors, dispatchers and fleet coordinators
  • Training needs analysis using incident trends, observations and telematics evidence
  • Safety communications tailored to drivers, managers, contractors and visitors
  • Worker consultation methods for reporting hazards, fatigue and unsafe routes
  • Supplier prequalification against vehicle standards, driver competence and incident history
  • Contract clauses defining road safety expectations, reporting and performance reviews

Participants can investigate road incidents, identify causal factors and manage corrective actions.

  • Immediate response protocols for emergency care, evidence preservation and notification
  • Collision reporting thresholds covering injuries, near misses, damage and third parties
  • Five Whys and causal-factor analysis for driver, vehicle and system failures
  • Haddon Matrix analysis across pre-crash, crash and post-crash phases
  • Corrective-action registers with root cause, owner, deadline and effectiveness review
  • Learning communications that avoid blame while addressing unsafe conditions and decisions

Participants can monitor system performance and plan an evidence-based ISO 39001 internal audit.

  • Road safety dashboards combining exposure, behaviour, incident and compliance measures
  • Data quality checks for telematics, collision reports, maintenance and training records
  • Trend analysis using rates, control charts and meaningful comparison periods
  • Internal audit programmes based on risk, performance and previous findings
  • Audit interviews, sampling and evidence trails against ISO 39001 requirements
  • Nonconformity statements distinguishing requirement, evidence and objective finding

Participants can prepare management-review inputs and a phased ISO 39001 implementation plan.

  • Management review inputs: objectives, incidents, audit results and resource needs
  • Evaluating control effectiveness against road traffic safety performance factors
  • Improvement priorities selected through risk ranking, feasibility and expected impact
  • Certification readiness gaps mapped against ISO 39001 clause requirements
  • Ninety-day implementation plan with milestones, owners, dependencies and measures
  • Personal application commitments aligned with organisational road safety priorities

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

What you take back to work

  1. ISO 39001 clause interpretation guide
  2. Road traffic safety scope and stakeholder map
  3. Work-related road risk assessment template
  4. Road safety objectives and performance dashboard
  5. Collision investigation and corrective-action register
  6. Ninety-day ISO 39001 implementation plan

Who should attend

  • HSE Managers — responsible for managing occupational road risk within HSE systems
  • Fleet Managers — accountable for vehicle, driver and journey safety controls
  • Transport Managers — managing dispatch, contractor transport and delivery operations
  • Operations Managers — overseeing teams whose work requires regular road travel
  • Facilities Managers — coordinating employee commuting, site access and vehicle movements
  • Internal Auditors — assessing ISO 39001 conformity and management-system effectiveness

Skills and tools covered

ISO 39001 implementationRoad risk assessmentFleet safety governanceCollision investigationSafety performance measurementInternal audit planning

Tools and standards

ISO 39001:2012, Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle, Bowtie analysis, Haddon Matrix

How the course runs

Training methodology

The course uses short instructor briefings to explain ISO 39001 clauses, Safe System principles and road traffic safety performance factors. Participants work through transport, fleet and work-travel cases, then apply risk assessment, target-setting, collision investigation and audit methods in groups. Simulations test decisions following a serious road incident and during an internal audit interview. Facilitated discussions compare controls for different operational contexts. Each participant builds an application plan using their own organisation's road-risk priorities, available data and governance arrangements.

Requirements and prerequisites

Participants should have basic experience of workplace health and safety, fleet operations, transport coordination, facilities management or operational risk management. Familiarity with risk assessments, incident reporting and corrective actions is helpful because the course applies these practices to road traffic safety. Participants should be able to read organisational procedures and interpret simple performance data. Prior knowledge of ISO 39001, formal auditing qualifications, road engineering knowledge and certification experience are not required. The course explains relevant ISO management-system concepts before applying them.

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 basic familiarity with workplace safety, fleet operations, transport coordination or operational risk. ISO 39001 knowledge, audit certification and road engineering expertise are not required.

Bring examples of your organisation's driver policy, fleet procedures, incident forms or performance reports if you can share them appropriately. These materials help you shape a relevant implementation plan, but they are not mandatory.

The course is designed for HSE, fleet, transport, operations, facilities, procurement and internal audit professionals. It is useful for people managing employees, contractors or vehicles exposed to work-related road travel.

Defensive driving focuses primarily on individual driver behaviour and driving technique. This course addresses the management system around road safety, including leadership, risk assessment, fleet controls, contractor oversight, performance measures and audit.

Participants can use the templates to define system scope, assess priority risks, set objectives and establish monitoring arrangements. The final implementation plan identifies practical actions for the first 90 days.

Training runs from 08:30 to 16:30 each day, providing about 6.5 contact hours daily. The five days cover ten modules through briefings, cases, group work, simulations and application planning.

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