13:00-18:30, Renaissance Hotel, Brussels
At the event discover which country will receive the Road Safety PIN Award 2012. The PIN Report 2012 will reveal which countries achieved the best reduction in road deaths and serious injuries in the first year of the new 2020 target period. Trends in reducing deaths among young people and how the management of road safety differs from countries to countries will also be presented. Priorities for reducing serious injuries will be debated with national and EU policy makers and experts. For programme of the event and registration please click here. More information on the Road Safety PIN on www.etsc.eu/PIN.
9h00 - 13h30, City Council of Malaga, Spain
The PRAISE Seminar will be a great opportunity to discuss work-related road safety issues in Spain and in Europe with Maria Segui, Director General of the Spanish General Directorate for Traffic. Practical exchange of company-level good practices on improving employee safety will also illustrate some of nine thematic reports developed over the last three years. For programme of the event and registration please click here.
Safe and Sober seminar - Barcelona, 31 May
ETSC and the Generalitat of Catalonia are setting up an international seminar in Barcelona on the implementation and use of alcohol interlocks, focusing particularly on rehabilitation schemes and use in the commercial transport. A round table gathering representatives from the Government of Catalonia, the Police as well as the regional prosecutor in charge of road safety will discuss drink-driving and future actions to further tackle this issue. For programme of the event and registration please click here.
Dublin, 24th of May 2012
ETSC together with the Irish Road Safety Authority, the Health and Safety Authority as well as the Police Force of Ireland are setting up a Business to Business seminar in Dublin on the implementation and use of alcohol interlocks in small, large and public companies. The debate will focus on the good practice in developing organisational policy and process for alcohol as well as implementation processes, timeline, costs, benefits and feedback from experienced companies. For programme of the event and registration please click here.
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10 May 2012
Press Release One Year of the Decade of Action: Pressure Must Stay High to Make Roads Safer
On this day one year ago, the United Nations launched the Decade of Action for Road Safety, an ambitious commitment aimed at reducing the worrying global trend of an increase in risk on the roads. The World Health Organisation put the writing on the wall by estimating that by 2030 road traffic injuries would become the fifth leading cause of death. One year into the Decade of Action, many good initiatives have been taken already and there are good signals that allow ETSC to believe that the goal of stabilising and subsequently reducing the global number of road traffic deaths can be reached. Read more...
25 April 2012
Press Release ETSC Launches a New Resource for Work Related Road Safety
The Annual PRAISE Awards for road safety at work were presented to Royal Dutch Shell and VolkerRail Ltd.
We congratulate the two prestigious winners of the awards for their inspiring efforts in tackling work related road risk. Royal Dutch Shell and VolkerRail are praised today because they demonstrate how improving road safety can be integrated into day-to-day business practices and that investing in road safety does indeed pay for itself said Antonio Avenoso, ETSC Executive Director, the awards ceremony chair.
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24 April 2012
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23 April 2012
Press Release ETSC urges for zero tolerance to alcohol on EU roads
Drink driving unfortunately remains one of the three main killers on our roads. We must all take action to reduce this unacceptable behaviour which claims so many lives every year, said Antonio Avenoso, ETSC Executive Director during the event dedicated to tackling drink driving.
Siim Kallas, European Commission Vice-President responsible for Transport, delivered the keynote address at the conference. It is unacceptable for 85 people to die every day on Europe's roads. Alcohol-impaired road users are still involved in about a quarter of all fatal crashes in Europe. This is a very worrying situation. But if we work together to raise awareness, to enforce the rules better and to change people's driving habits, then we can truly make a difference in bringing down the number of road deaths, said Mr. Kallas.
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30 March 2012
Press Release EU Receives Wake-up Call to Address Road Deaths
The provisional numbers of road deaths for 2011 the European Commission released yesterday are a tough reality check for the state of road safety in the EU, said Antonio Avenoso, ETSC Executive Director.
Yesterday's announcement came in with a stark reminder that there is no room for complacency, even after several years of good progress. I can only hope this cold shower will reinvigorate the European Commission and governments and help them get back on track to reach the EU 2020 road safety target. Since 2010 - when the European Road Safety Policy Orientations were published - we have yet to see any new legislative proposal from the Commission. We have a bold speech, we now have to translate the commitments of the Policy Orientations into concrete actions, said Mr. Avenoso. Read more...
8 March 2012
Press Release French authorities and companies exchange good practices on work related road safety
This international seminar is a great opportunity for all those present to recognise that employers have a great deal to gain by managing the road safety of their employees, said Ellen Townsend, ETSC Policy Director, during the PRAISE seminar. Read more...
15 February 2012
Position Papers CARS 21 Road Safety Read more...
February 2012
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31 January 2012
Press Release Students awarded for improving road safety
It is a real pleasure for us to show what motivated students can do to improve road safety. The projects implemented are the perfect proof that road safety can be increased also with low-cost measures when these measures are targeted at clearly identified sites, said Antonio Avenoso, ETSC Executive Director during the Award Ceremony for the Roads to Respect and STARS projects.
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