ISO 39001 "Road traffic safety (RTS) management systems" is an ISO standard for a management system (similar to ISO 9000) for road traffic safety. The implementation of the standard is intended to enable organizations to improve their traffic safety and to reduce the number of persons killed or severely injured.
Contents
Development of the standard began in February 2008 and the first edition was published on October 1, 2012. It is under the responsibility of the ISO Technical Committee "ISO/TC241".
Scope and Background
This Standard is applicable to public and private organizations that interact with the road traffic system.
This International Standard is applicable to any organization that wishes to:
The organization must have a process, that
Performance Factors
In section 6 "planning" there is a list of "performance factors" that covers among other things, the following:
a) Risk exposure factors
b) Final safety outcome factors
c) Intermediate safety outcome factors
- The safe planning, design, operation and use of the road network
- The safe entry and exit of vehicles and road users to the road network
- The recovery and rehabilitation of road traffic crash victims from the road network
Contents
The ISO 39001 will consist of following sections:
- Introduction
- Scope
- Normative References
- Terms and Definitions
- Context of the organisation
- Leadership
- Planning
- Support
- Operation
- Performance Evaluation
- Improvement
- Annex (informative): Guidance on the use of this International Standard
Certification
A number of ISO 39001 certification has increased since 2012. For example, more than 60 companies got certified to ISO 39001 by JQA in Japan. In Korea, Korea Postal Logistics Agency(POLA) got certified to ISO 39001 by KFQ for the first time.
ISO reports that 41 organizations affiliated to the Swedish Association of Road Transport Companies had been certified to ISO 39001 by August 2013 – a figure expected to rise to 100 by 2014. Spain: first public transport company to be certified to ISO 39001 South Africa: 72 transport fleets representing some 4 600 trucks and buses certified to the RTMS standard will also adopt ISO 39001.