Safe to School – Safe to Home incorporates assessment of road safety conditions, the installation of appropriate and low-cost local traffic engineering improvements, extensive road safety education for children, parents and the community, and enhanced helmet-wearing, parking restrictions and speeding enforcement.

 

The aim of Safe to School – Safe to Home

 

Is to reduce death and injury from road crashes for children travelling to and from school.

 

Business Concept

 

The Aim of the Programme

 

Safe to School – Safe to Home aims to reduce death and injury from road crashes for children travelling to and from school.

 

Programme Objectives

 

• To reduce the speed of vehicles on roads around the school where children are walking and/or riding bicycles

• To improve safety for children crossing roads near the school or on preferred safer routes

• To encourage children who are walking or riding a bicycle to use safer routes when travelling to and from school

• To improve safety around the school entrance so children can be safely dropped off and picked up

• To improve safety for children being driven to school by increasing helmet-wearing and/or seat belt use

 

S2S-S2H Programme Implementation Steps

 

a) establish the programme in the school
b) investigate the safety issues around the school c) develop and implement the Action Plan
d) monitor and evaluate to measure success

 

Target Areas/Schools

 

The project will be implemented in schools that will be identified by stakeholders and communities as having a real need for a project of this nature. The schools are also in neighbourhoods identified as hazardous locations.

 

Expected Outcomes

 

a) Schoolchildren

• Reduced numbers of schoolchild injuries and fatalities as a result of road traffic crashes;

• increased awareness of road safety issues among schoolchildren.

b) Parents

• increased awareness of child road safety issues among parents and care-givers culminating in parents taking a greater interest and role in how their children travel to and from school

c) Motorists

• increased awareness of road safety issues among motorists in the neighbourhood.

d) Pedestrian infrastructure

• improved pedestrian infrastructure e.g. through repainting of road markings and signage etc.