About RSA Toolkit

A road safety audit is a formal examination of a future road or traffic project or an existing road, in which an independent, qualified team reports on the project’s crash potential and safety performance. A road safety audit has the greatest potential for improving safety and is most cost-effective when it is applied to a road or traffic design before the project is built. It can be conducted on any design proposal that involves changes to the ways road users will interact, either with each other or with their physical environment. It is a formal process using a defined procedure. To be effective it must be conducted by people who are independent and who have appropriate experience and training (Austroads Guide to Road Safety – Part 6: Road Safety Audit, 2009).

The road safety audit process supports the safe system approach to road safety, which seeks to make allowance for human error and minimise the risk of serious injury or death.

The Road Safety Audit (RSA) Toolkit is an on-line tool to assist practitioners to carry out road safety audits.

The computer based 'expert' system is designed to assist road safety auditors by:

• Prompting auditors with the Austroads Guide to Road Safety – Part 6: Road Safety Audit (2009) checklist questions
• Providing a medium in which they can record the location and audit team details.
• Providing a medium in which auditors can record the findings of an audit in a structured manner based on the Austroads Road Safety Audit Guide 2nd Edition.
• Providing relevant Australasian and jurisdiction specific reference publications and a searching function that allows auditors to interrogate references using "key words" to identify salient sections.
• Providing an export function that will allow auditors to generate road safety audit reports.

Terms of use

Disclaimer and Limitation of Liability

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LIMITATION OF LIABILITY.  There is no expressed or implied warranty for this version of this software.  End User agrees that it is the responsibility of the End User to understand fully the limitations of and assumptions underlying the software, and not to make use of the software without the assistance of personnel with appropriate experience.  End User accepts all responsibility for review, application, and the use of the program output and accepts all responsibility for certification that said output meets provisions of any applicable design code, standard or any project specification.

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Copyright and Intellectual Property (IP)

This work is copy right.  Apart from any use as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part may be reproduced by any process without the prior written permission of Austroads.

RSA Toolkit software is the intellectual property of Austroads.  The software is protected by copyright law and international treaties.  Unauthorised reproduction or distribution of this software, or any portion of it, may result in severe criminal penalties, and will be prosecuted to the maximum extent possible under the law.  Users agree to not modify or reverse engineer the software.

Privacy

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Users accept that personal information is collected by ARRB Group Ltd to assist in the creation and maintenance of accounts.

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International Users

Road Safety Audit (RSA) Toolkit software is based on the Austroads Road Safety Audit Guide, which has been developed for Austroads for Australian and New Zealand Road conditions.

Users from countries other than Australia and New Zealand accept full responsibility for any adverse consequences that may arise from use of the RSA Toolkit.

International user accounts may be created on request. However, assistance or support will not be provided any for these accounts.

The Austroads Road Safety Audit Guide is available for purchase from the Austroads website at http://www.austroads.com.au.