Education and propaganda of Road Safety

EDUCATION AND PROPAGATION OF ROAD SAFETY

ROAD SAFETY EDUCATION

• Road safety is no accident.
• The aim of road safety education is to reduce the risk of injury and death from road trauma and to lay the foundations for safe road use throughout life.
  
• Education of road safety is an essential component of national road safety council meetings
• Road safety education is the program of educational activities around road safety that is provided in a formal education setting
• In order to be effective, road safety education must be evidence-based.
• Adult-led learning and peer collaboration are powerful instruments in road safety engineering because of the influence of social interaction on learning
• Road safety education covers all measures that aim at positively influencing traffic behaviour patterns, with an emphasis on:
• Promotion of knowledge and understanding of traffic rules and situations
• Improvement of skills through training and experience 
• Strengthening and/or changing attitudes towards risk awareness, personal safety and the safety of other road users" 

• Traffic education as a measure is used for all kinds of road user groups and for all sorts of road safety issues. 
• In order to determine if road safety education is effective, a focus is needed on age groups and problem behaviour for which a large number of educational programmes have to be developed and few evaluation studies have to be done.  

PROPAGATION OF ROAD SAFETY

• The concept of road safety should be embraced and propagated by the Government, responsible corporate citizens, transporters, individual motorists and pedestrians because they are all prone to road accidents 
• It is of utmost importance to propagate road safety in order to disseminate good practices in road safety among various sections of the population with the aim of improving traffic flow and reducing accidents.
• Spreading of road safety information to the entire community is possible through small clips on the television, announcements in the radio, banners, hoardings at critical junctions
• Propagation of road safety can also be done by offering compulsory training sessions to serial offenders of traffic rules