Road Safety Auditor competency

For many years, road safety engineers have asked these questions:

Until the Highways Agency (HA) published the Road Safety Audit standard in 2003 (HA, 2003) there was very little guidance on the levels of training and experience that would be acceptable to a client commissioning a Road Safety Audit report. When the HA was putting together the standard, there was concern that some Road Safety Auditors being put forward had very little background in road safety. This meant that some Road Safety Audit reports were more design checks than safety checks.

The 2003 standard introduced the concept of three levels of Road Safety Auditor (Team Leader, Team Member and Observer), and described the training and experience required for each level. These are described in Chapter 3 of this book.