Well-attended Road Safety workshop in Brussels

More than 60 persons took the opportunity to join a workshop on road safety at the European Economic and Social Committee on Monday, February 27th 2012. The aim of the workshop was to present the necessary steps towards a European standardized training and certification of road safety experts.

"Road Safety: Common European Training for safer roads and society", as the workshop was titled, included a welcome speech by Stephane Buffetaut, President section TEN-ESSC and presentations from EC delegates. Focusing the importance of road safety operations in local and regional roads, the workshop gave useful input to regional authorities.
Presentations from the workshop can be downloaded from http://pilot4safety.fehrl.org/index.php?m=3&id_directory=7095, along with photos and an audio transcript.

The organisers of the workshop were the two on-going projects; PILOT4SAFETY (www.fehrl.org) and BALTRIS (www.baltris.org).

BALTRIS is a project within the European Union's Baltic Sea Region Programme 2007-2013 to promote regional development through transnational cooperation whose specific objective is to develop tools and build capacity to better manage road infrastructure safety in the Baltic Sea Region. Enhanced road safety saves life, health and money.

PILOT4SAFETY is a DG MOVE project that kicked off on 1st June 2010. Six partners from across Europe are working together to contribute to the implementation of coherent safety procedures for the European road network, based on Directive 2008/96/CE of the European Parliament and of the Council.

published 05.03.2012