A road safety audit brief is the instructions prepared and approved by the client organisation and design team prepared using the recommended template. It defines the scope of the audit and provides sufficient information to enable the audit team to conduct the audit.

• Road Safety Audit Brief Template

A road safety audit report template has been developed to provide consistency to the audit reporting process and to ensure audit teams focus on the crash risk of any identified findings.

The audit report template has been developed to include bookmarks to assist the audit reporting process by auto-populating repeated information throughout the report, and also populate the Corrective Action Report (CAR).

There is a completion procedure provided for auditors unfamiliar with the use of bookmarks and an optional template provided without bookmarks.

• Road Safety Audit Report Template (Bookmarked)

• Road Safety Audit Report Completion Procedure (Bookmarks)

• Road Safety Audit Report Template (Without Bookmarks)

A Road Safety Inspection is a formal examination of an existing road or road related area in which an independent, qualified team report on the crash and hazard potential and likely safety performance of the location.

There is a bookmarked version of this template and an optional template provided without bookmarks. Refer to the audit report completion procedure for the bookmarked version.

• Road Safety Inspection Report Template (Bookmarked)

• Road Safety Inspection Report Template (Without Bookmarks)

Crash investigations are complementary to Road Safety Audits in the identification of road environment factors as a contribution to the causation and/or severity of crashes on the public road network in Western Australia.

Unlike Road Safety Audits, crash investigations are a reactive process triggered by an incident. The combination of Road Safety Audits and Crash Location Reports provide Asset Managers with powerful mechanisms to identify weak links in the road network and to reduce the risk of trauma and crashes on the road network.

The objective of the crash investigation is to identify any road environment safety issues that could represent unnecessary and/or unreasonable hazards to road users. The investigation incorporates analysis of the road crashes recorded at the location to determine crash rates, trends and crash types. The report analyses crash types at a location against the network average and recommends remedial measures to reduce the recurrence or severity of the predominant crash types.

The objectives of a Crash Location Report are to:

• Review the existing road against current standards and recommend remedial action to reduce the probability of an incident occurring and the potential severity to an acceptable level of risk;
• Report on the conclusions drawn and make recommendations to minimise or eliminate hazards;
• Analyse the characteristics of recorded road crashes at the location;
• Establish common factors for crash groupings;
• Analyse and determine the trends (if any) in the crash pattern and the possible cause;
• Determine whether the road crash that resulted in fatal injury was a predominant crash type; and
• Evaluate the site in terms of interaction of the road user with the surroundings to identify potential impediments and conflicts.

To ensure that the maximum emphasis is placed on engineering and safe system treatments, every investigation team must be led by a suitably qualified and experienced Crash Investigator in accordance with the requirements of our policy.

Our Policy

• Policy and Guidelines for Crash Investigations

Road safety assessments of high risk routes and intersections are complementary to road safety audits and crash investigations for the consideration of road environment factors associated with crash risk at high risk locations throughout the State road network.

The aim of the annual programme of road safety assessment on high risk routes and intersections is to take an overarching holistic approach to the assessment of high risk locations ‘State wide’ in coordination with regions throughout the State. This will result in a State wide prioritised evidence led and targeted approach to the assessment and treatment of regional high risk locations throughout the State.

The objectives of the road safety assessments programme are to:

• annually determine a list of high risk regional locations to investigate;
• investigate the crash history at high risk locations;
• conduct detailed analysis of all crashes with a focus on KSI crash risk to determine trends or crash patterns (if any) and possible cause;
• inspect the road environment at high risk locations to determine if there are any road environment factors that may have contributed to crash risk, crash causation and/or severity;
• inspect the road environment and other available supporting information to identify any hazards or substandard road elements that pose a potential KSI crash risk;
• provide recommendations about potential effective targeted treatment options to mitigate crash patterns, crash risks and hazards identified at high risk locations;
• estimate the economic benefits of recommended treatment options;
• provide advice about potential funding sources available for recommended treatment options; and
• monitor the effectiveness of delivered projects that result from high risk assessments.

Main Roads has developed a policy and guideline to set out the requirements for conducting assessments of high risk routes and intersections on the State road network.

Policy and Guidelines for Road Safety Assessments of High Risk Routes and Intersections