RS Review Group

This committee is chaired by the D.O.E.’s Director of Road Safety Division and has a membership consisting of:

D.O.E. Road Safety Division, [D.H.S.S. & P.S.], Roads Service Transportation Unit and the P.S.N.I.’s Road Traffic Policing Branch

The Terms of reference for the R.S.R.G are: -

To reduce the number and severity of road collision casualties by co-ordinating all road safety and casualty reduction activities and promoting increased awareness of road safety issues throughout Northern Ireland. The aims of the Road Safety Steering Group are to:-

ensure that all action points of the Northern Ireland Road Safety Strategy to 2012 are implemented against the agreed timetables;
monitor and review emerging research and technological developments on road safety to assess their effect on the Road Safety Strategy;
monitor progress against the targets;
ensure current activities remain effective; and
report annually on progress towards achieving the targets set out in the Road Safety Strategy to the Road Safety Steering Group.

The R.S.R.G. will provide a joined up government approach in co-ordinating a regular multi-disciplinary forum for representatives from those statutory bodies involved with road safety to present their points of view. Each representative will bring to the Group a knowledge of the relevant road safety voluntary bodies with which each organisation is in regular contact.
The Road Safety Review Group will be assisted in its activities by 4 Working Groups set up to take forward the 6 main objectives of the Road Safety Strategy. These working groups will report, on an exception basis, to the Road Safety Review Group.
In 2005, at the end of the first three-year period of the Strategy, a review of the progress made on delivering the measures highlighted in the Strategy and in achieving its objectives and targets will be carried out by the Road Safety Review Group and submitted to the Road Safety Steering Group for approval by the Minister. Further reviews are to be carried out at three-yearly intervals.
The role of each respective organisation involved in the Road Safety Review Group consists of the following:-

The Road Safety Review Group and the statutory road safety organisations represented on it will (through the measures set out in the Road Safety strategy) encourage voluntary organisations and private sector companies to develop their own action plans for road casualty reduction as well as encouraging individual road users to be more aware of the dangers in using roads and the actions they can take to reduce the risks to themselves and other road users.
In accordance with the aims of the Road Safety Strategy the Road Safety Review Group shall establish a Consultative Forum in seeking to promote an integrated partnership approach across the statutory road safety agencies and departments and throughout the wider community, engaging for example, voluntary road safety groups, organisations representative of specific road user groups, employers, parents and schools.

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