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⚠️ We are looking for graduate engineers to join the SSS Team in 2023! ⚠️ Safe System Solutions Pty Ltd is a road safety consultancy working across Australia and New Zealand. We work on some of the largest transport projects in Aus and NZ, as well as the more niche...

Last week our Principal Engineer, Kenn Beer, was featured in the Waka Kotahi Road to Zero newsletter alongside Lloyd de Beer from Beca. In amongst information on annual vehicle safety ratings, new temporary traffic management guides and speed limit case studies, the...

To create a Safe System road environment requires managing kinetic energy levels in crashes to within tolerable levels. This is a big challenge when we consider the biomechanics of injury for motorcyclists. Today our Principal Engineer, Kenn Beer, presented at Safety...

It's Friday, and you know what that means...Safe System Sketch time. Have a super weekend.

The 85th percentile method of setting speed limits is careless and antiquated. One of the most archaic ways to set a speed limit is the 85th percentile speed (the speed at or below which 85% of motorists travel under free flow). This is 1950s thinking, yet it still...

There was always a lot to think about in road safety barrier design, but with the introduction of the new roadside risk assessment process in the 2022 version of the Austroads Guide to Road Design Part 6 we’ve hit new levels. Last week, our Advanced Road Safety...

Happy Friday, and have a super weekend.

It’s Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month…EVERY MONTH, in our opinion. Motorcyclists and pillion passengers are staggeringly overrepresented in road trauma when analysing crashes per vehicle kilometres travelled, crashes per registered vehicle, crashes per licensed...

Happy Friday. Here's one for the road safety barrier enthusiasts out there.

It's Safe System Sketch time.Each Friday this year, our engineers have been putting their comic wit on the line and producing a cartoon/sketch. Let us know what you think of today's sketch.

In parts of Europe speeding fines are adjusted to match the speeder’s salary. Finland is best known for this system where the government uses their existing tax data to work out a fine that provides equal disincentive regardless of earnings (including benefits). This...

Waka Kotahi has just released their Safe System Audit guidelines and process. It’s a new frontier in the Safe System assurance process and we’re excited. So much so that we’ve produced a fact sheet (below) to explain some of the changes. Get in contact to ensure you...

By popular demand, our Road Safety Barriers technical training course is coming to Brisbane. Over 500 engineers, road designers, technical officers, managers and field staff from around Australia have successfully completed this course. Through interactive learning,...

Does advanced driver training work? Are speed limits really that important? Are roundabouts always safer? How do we deal with extreme driver behaviour? How do we factor economic productivity into this? How do we fit motorcyclists into the Safe System? Can we scare...

Safe System Assessments (SSAs) are now mandatory in most jurisdictions across Australia and New Zealand. Here’s a guide to the jurisdiction specific requirements with respect to SSAs: ＱｕｅｅｎｓｌａｎｄSSAs required on all TMR infrastructure projects as part of the TMR Road...

If you missed it, the seminar recording is now available from the ITE-ANZ website. Click here: recording Designing for Cyclist SafetyWonderful discussion at yesterday’s ITE-ANZ seminar on designing for cyclist safety. Thanks to Max McCardel and Ilse...

Safe System SketchHappy Friday and have a wonderful weekend.