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I spent a good bit of the start of this year shaping up a Safe Roads 101 training course. Bringing back a course that builds a foundation of road safety engineering fundamentals. And it was great this week to roll it out to a group of keen, engaged and bright...

We’re excited to welcome Christo van der Berg to our Safe System Solutions team! A Digital Design Engineer with 19+ years’ experience in civil engineering, Christo specialises in civil infrastructure and geometric road design. He brings strong expertise in digital...

Safe System Solutions in partnership with NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi have now received our second national road safety award this year. Most of our work happens quietly. This just happens to have been a visible month for the Safe System Solutions team. Last week...

Being a safety guy, I always feel a bit uneasy walking past rides at local fairs and fetes. I catch myself eating my fairy floss and drifting into thoughts about maintenance regimes, engineering checks, failsafe mechanisms, regulations, and risk assessments. Anyway, I...

Senior Engineers – New Zealand Are you ready to take your career to the next level? Join our growing team of consultants and practitioners who are committed to improving New Zealand’s road network to ensure the safety and wellbeing of all road users. We are looking...

Now live on Spotify. (29min) I joined Hugh Kruzel from QOL for a conversation on the Safe System approach and the broader decisions that shape risk on our roads and streets. Keen to hear your thoughts after you have a listen. ————- Follow Kenn Beer on LinkedIn for...

eBikes are having a moment right now.We keep getting sent videos of some of the riding behaviour… and here’s another one below. (Thankfully the incident at the end of the video appears to be minor) At the same time, there’s a growing conversation about age limits,...

Over 20 years in the game. Regularly called on as an expert witness in legal and WorkCover cases. Front and centre of Austroads updates. When Thuan Nguyen speaks about Temporary Traffic Management, people listen. At the Municipal Works Australia Works Conference, our...

Two weeks on and finally getting a moment to reflect on the Transportation Conference New Zealand in Wellington. Great people. Fun event. Exceptionally well organised. And a real buzz around road safety. We were lucky enough for Safe System Solutions in partnership...

One of our course participants recently said, “I’d heard that you can’t have traffic signals with a Safe System” A common misunderstanding. Of course we can have traffic signals in a Safe System. The question isn’t the treatment, it’s the outcome. If speeds and angles...

This is one of the biggest challenges in addressing the systemic failures of our road/street transport system... ————- Follow Kenn Beer on LinkedIn for more updates and road safety industry news.

I lived and worked in Ballarat for a while. I loved running and riding laps around Lake Wendouree. One thing I was always very wary of though was the tram tracks running parallel to the bike lane. Back then I was mainly working on the design and development of...

Amazing line-up of road safety and road/street design training courses... more info here. ————- Follow Kenn Beer on LinkedIn for more updates and road safety industry news.

Why do crashes at roundabouts tend to be less severe than those at traditional intersections (crossroads, t-intersections, signalised intersections)? Two factors play a big role - speed and angle. Roundabouts naturally slow vehicles as they approach and move through...

Closing keynote slots can be dangerous. The audience has already heard a lot and the energy is dropping. You need something to bring the oomph back. So at last week’s Transportation Conference in Aotearoa New Zealand, I threw in a Safe System heavyweight fight. --...

Another motorcyclist NOT hitting a wire rope safety barrier.( that’s not the point of this post, but I thought I would get it out of the way before the comments come in ) What I'm very interested in is the joint sealant here that appears to have destabilised the...

Be honest, were you ready for that blue car? Dynamic Visual Obstruction is when one vehicle blocks sightlines to another vehicle or road user. Left turn lanes (like the one below) create a situation where this becomes more prevalent. Make sure you think about these...

By around 2040, motorcyclists are projected to become the dominant mode involved in death and serious injury on Australian roads. Those projections were based on historic growth trends in motorcycle use, trauma assumptions and safety investment scenarios. The...

…and the winner is… road safety in Aotearoa New Zealand. Last night Safe System Solutions, in partnership with NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi, won the Trafinz National Road Safety Leadership Award. The award recognised our national rollout of technical training that...

The conference app chat made me laugh. Great to be back in Wellington, New Zealand for Transportation Conference 2026. But I could not help but giggle at the discussion happening in the conference app. Dr. Elliot Fishman asked the question many people had been...