ISO 39001 - Road Traffic Safety Management
Transportation, Telecom & Energy
ISO 39001:2012 specifies requirements for a road traffic safety (RTS) management system to enable an organization that interacts with the road traffic system to reduce death and serious injuries related to road traffic crashes which it can influence. The requirements in ISO 39001:2012 include development and implementation of an appropriate RTS policy, development of RTS objectives and action plans, which take into account legal and other requirements to which the organization subscribes, and information about elements and criteria related to RTS that the organization identifies as those which it can control and those which it can influence.
Target Organizations
Road Traffic Safety Management is something relevant to all organizations, regardless of business type or scale.
- Organizations using motor vehicles (trucks) for transporting goods or providing business services
- Organizations involved in the transporting of goods or passengers (i.e. truck, bus, taxi companies)
- Organizations involved in establishing Road Traffic Safety laws (i.e. governments, local public organizations)
- Organizations involved in the designing, manufacturing, maintaining, and inspecting of motor vehicles (i.e. Automobile manufactures)
- Organizations and businesses having parking facilities (i.e. supermarket, parking management companies)
- Organizations involved in the designing, building, operating and maintaining of roads (i.e. Road authorities)
- Organizations involved in providing emergency medical care (i.e. emergency medical centers, hospitals)
The benefits of ISO 39001:2012
- Meet organizational safety and social responsibility targets
- Demonstrate to stakeholders that you take these targets seriously
- Identify way to improve efficiency through better management
- Cut costs through improved efficiency
- Be recognized as one of the first companies to implement BS ISO 39001:2012
- Improves company’s brand value and image.
- Reduces safety measure costs.
- Creates a sustainable business structure.
- Leads to fewer traffic accident fatalities and serious injuries.
- Provides opportunity for establishing Road Traffic Safety Management System and helps in setting goals.
