The workforce of today is more mobile than ever before. Travel from country to country on a regular basis or extended deployments in an unfamiliar country are commonplace. Naturally then when preparing an employee for international travel or an overseas assignment, a number of safety preparations must be considered. The employee will likely receive a…
The call for proposals for Round 5 of the Road Safety Grants Programme will be launched on the GRSP website on Friday 7 February. GRSP seeks civil society organizations registered and operational in Brazil, Cambodia, China, India, Kenya, Mexico, Russia, Turkey and Vietnam to advocate for improvements in road safety policies aimed at reducing death…
As far back as 2003, a study of U.S. collision data performed by University of Toronto researchers uncovered a 41% increase in motor vehicle collisions in the hours following the Super Bowl. The study compared data from 27 Super Bowl Sundays with that of the Sundays preceding and following the big game from 1975 to…
On the back of extensive planning, advisory groups have been formed, multi-sectoral partnerships have been established and the capacity of key road safety actors has been enhanced to the point where 5 out of the 8 beneficiary countries of the GRSP-run EuroMed Transport Road Safety programme have officially launched their road safety pilot projects attracting…
As part of the Bloomberg Philanthropies Global Road Safety Programme, the World Health Organization (WHO) has released an online library of road safety mass media campaigns, a new resource for governments and civil society organizations. The library, which contains some of the world’s most impactful road safety video and audio campaigns, is intended as inspiration…
Safe Roads 4 Youth, a project involving GRSP South Africa, is “the first scientific project that studies simultaneously the impact of community-based interventions on youth and drink driving in three different countries (Argentina, South Africa, Vietnam) and very different cultural environments,” highlights Dr Jean-Pascal Assailly, senior researcher at the IFSTTAR (French Institute of Science and…
At the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHA / WHO) in Brasilia on 2 and 3 December, the Global Road Safety Partnership, as part of the Bloomberg Philanthropies Global Road Safety Programme, hosted a meeting of experts to build an alliance of civil society organizations with a mission to increase advocacy efforts aligned with the Decade of…
Through the Bloomberg Philanthropies funded Road Safety Grants Programme, Safe Kids Mexico, in collaboration with Safe Kids Worldwide, has been advocating for comprehensive child passenger safety laws in Jalisco, Mexico. The region of Jalisco is a leader in Mexico in the protection of children in cars, specifically, in child restraint systems. The state legislative body…
Building on the success achieved to date in Turkey through the Bloomberg Philanthropies Global Road Safety Programme, programme consortium partner, the World Health Organization, together with the Government of Turkey, launched this month a new campaign to prevent speeding on Turkey’s roads. “Think About Consequences, Slow Down Your Speed”, released under the banner of the…
At the annual awards luncheon at the Savoy, London in the presence of the Patron, HRH Prince Michael of Kent GCVO, the Global Road Safety Partnership (GRSP) has been awarded the prestigious Prince Michael International Road Safety Award. Each year the most outstanding examples of international road safety initiatives are given public recognition through the…
Evidence-led road safety is a term we see used a great deal, but perhaps nowhere is it better demonstrated than through the work of the Bloomberg Philanthropies Global Road Safety Programme. Ahead of a new social marketing campaign targeting speeding set for release in Turkey, Bloomberg Philanthropies has released another in its series of fact-filled infographics…
Global Road Safety Partnership South Africa has released the latest issue of its newsletter. This quality read provides updates on programmes and events including the 2 day National Road Safety Summit in Boksburg, the Chevron Visibility Project helping to make children more visible on the roads, the GRSP ZA 6th Annual General Meeting and the…
We reported in July on the historic decision taken by the High Court in India ordering the removal of illegal liquor shops along highways in Punjab and Haryana in response to a strategic and focussed campaign waged by ArriveSAFE, a grantee of the Road Safety Grants Programme funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies. In further recognition of…
We have reported previously on the progress being made by SaveLIFE Foundation, a grantee of the Road Safety Grants Programme funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies, in their work to advocate for the adoption of a Good Samaritan law in India. The need is simple enough to define: nearly 150,000 people die each year on the roads…
For the seventh year, the Fleet Europe Awards have recognised the achievements of the finest fleet managers throughout Europe. The awards represent the highest stage upon which international fleet professionals receive recognition for bringing new solutions and management improvement to the market and to their companies. This year, at the ceremony held in Prague on…
