Mini scenario: The safety ladder

Miniscenario: Sikkerhetsstigen

The aim of the study is to investigate possible consequences for the number of killed and severely injured in traffic if goods transport companies in Norway introduce the organizational safety management measures in the stepwise approach that the authors call the “Safety ladder”. The authors investigate both the retrospective (previous accidents that could have been avoided) and the prospective (future accidents that can be avoided) potential. A review of fatal accidents in the period 2005- 2013 shows a potential to avoid 62 fatalities/ severely injured per year in the period. An analysis of personal traffic injuries in the period 2007-2016 shows a potential to avoid 66 fatalities/severely injured per year in the period. A linear projection of fatalities, with 80 traffic fatalities in total in 2020, shows a potential for avoiding 26 fatalities/severely injured in 2020. The potentials indicate the numbers of accidents and injuries that the authors can take action against; they do not take already existing measures into account, or the fact that new measures do not have 100 % effect. The authors have provided some examples of calculations, where the authors take this into account, illustrating how these potentials can be realized through measures at the various levels of the Safety ladder. None of these provide, however, a satisfactory picture of possible effects of introducing the Safety ladder for goods transport companies Norway, because of methodological weaknesses, and because the authors lack robust data on the prevalence and effect of organizational safety management measures. The authors list seven reasons to explain why the estimates are conservative.

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• Summary URL:
  https://www.toi.no/getfile.php/1347337/Publikasjoner/T%C3%98I%20rapporter/2018/1620-2018/1620-2018_Summary.pdf
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • © Transportøkonomisk institutt, 2018. Report in Norwegian, summary in English.
• Corporate Authors:

  Institute of Transport Economics

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• Authors:
  • Nævestad, Tor-Olav
  • Phillips, Ross O
  • Hovi, Inger Beate
  • Jordbakke, Guri Natalie
  • Elvik, Rune
• Publication Date: 2018-2

Language

• English
• Norwegian

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 96p
• Serial:
  • TØI Report
  • Issue Number: 1620/2018
  • Publisher: Institute of Transport Economics (TØI)
  • ISSN: 0808-1190
  • EISSN: 2535-5104
  • Serial URL: https://www.toi.no/publications/category29.html
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash injuries; Crash rates; Fatalities; Forecasting; Freight transportation; Organizational factors; Safety management; Truck drivers; Trucking safety
• Geographic Terms: Norway
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Freight Transportation; Motor Carriers; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01669068
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9788248021223
• Contract Numbers: 4508
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 16 2018 5:05PM