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Forecourt Third Party Engagement and Road Safety Awareness

The Forecourt Third Party Engagement and Road Safety Awareness aims at 640 forecourts, ensuring petrol attendants wear branded attire that shares key messages with motorists on cell phone use and smoking on the forecourt. Training is given to the petrol attendants on forecourt awareness and safety.

Global Road Safety Partnership South Africa in full support of the Second UN Global Road Safety Week

The Second UN Global Road Safety Week was held on the 6-12 May 2013 and was dedicated to pedestrian safety. Requested by the UN General Assembly, the Week has drawn attention to the urgent need to better protect pedestrians worldwide, generate action on the measures needed to do so, and contribute to achieving the goal of the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020 to save millions of lives.

Millions of South Africans are dependent on walking as a key element in their routes to work or school, and this increases their exposure to risk. Statistics indicate that pedestrian and hit-and-run crashes are the highest contributors (44.76%) to road crashes in South Africa.

Join GRSP ZA in support of the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020.

SAFE ROADS 4 YOUTH

The Safe Roads 4 Youth project is a three year project that develops tests and evaluates a flexible framework to address drink driving prevention in emerging countries taking into account cultural diversity. This project carries out preventive interventions at community level, aimed at mobilizing their citizens, better train local players and prevents drinking and driving in different communities, starting with young adults. The effects of actions will be evaluated in each case, in order to understand the influence of local culture and social representations and the effectiveness of their actions.

The preventive actions are being undertaken in 3 different countries: Vietnam, Argentina and South Africa. The project will be developed in each country in partnership with major non-profit organizations - Handicap International in Vietnam, Luchemos por la Vida in Argentina and Global Road Safety Partnership in South Africa - and specialized research teams from local universities.

Second UN Global Road Safety Week Road Show

As part of our contribution towards the Second UN Global Road Safety Week (6-12 May 2013) whose theme is Pedestrian Safety, The Department of Road Safety Management (DRSM) in partnership with Global Road Safety Partnership (GRSP ZA) has hosted a Road Safety Road Show from the 6- to 10 May 2013 in Khayelitsha, Cape Town. The schools that have participated are located near or along Bangiso Drive. These are Sakumlandela Primary School, Intwasahlobo Primary & Sobambisana Primary.

Visibility Programme

The Visibility Programme are targetd at primary schools in the area of a hazardous location.    It is clear that young road users must be empowered with relevant knowledge, applicable skills and a positive attitude to such an extent that road safety education can influence not only the individual learner but also the society.