Fia Calls on Organisations and Companies to Assess Their Safety Footprint at the Vision Zero Conference

At the Vision Zero Conference organised by the Government Offices of Sweden, the Swedish Transport Administration – Trafikverket and the Swedish Innovation Agency Vinnova, the FIA gathered highway security consultants to spotlight the key function organisations and non-public sector corporations can play in bettering security of the roads.

FIA Secretary General for Automobile Mobility and Tourism Jacob Bangsgaard, TotalEnergies SVP HSE Michel Charton, FIA Foundation Executive Director Saul Billingsley, World Health Organization Head of Safety and Mobility Nhan Tran and Swedish Transport Administration Director of Traffic Safety Maria Krafft mentioned about the FIA Road Safety Index, an modern software enabling corporations and organisations to measure their security footprint over their complete worth chain.

The Index affords an efficient resolution for corporations and organisations to commit to safer roads because it offers them a framework to assess their efficiency, report on it and enhance their highway security impression by constructing a tradition of security.

The panel began with the announcement of TotalEnergies as being the first non-public sector firm to obtain 3-star recognition, the highest degree of feat as a part of the FIA Road Safety Index.

FIA Secretary General for Automobile Mobility and Tourism Jacob Bangsgaard reminded the proven fact that the FIA Road Safety Index, based mostly on completely different degree of achievements, is conceived as a software for progress. “It just isn’t about shaming those that don’t have the 3-star degree but, it’s about encouraging them to attain that degree and it’s about inspiring any organisation to embrace site visitors security of their sustainability reporting,” he mentioned.

He additionally highlighted how the FIA is planning to rely on its community of 243 Members in 147 international locations to assist the deployment of the Index. “We are representing Mobility Clubs from throughout the world and we’ll work with our Members to unfold the message on the significance of calculating the highway security footprint on a nationwide degree, assist us do the assessments and contain the industries,” he underlined.

TotalEnergies SVP HSE Michel Charton defined why they determined to implement the Index and first insisted on the scale of the impression that TotalEnergies can have on making the roads safer. “Globally, (TotalEnergies travels) 600 million kilometers per 12 months, in international locations with completely different threat ranges: western European international locations, but additionally in Brazil, in India, and in nearly all African international locations,” he mentioned.

“Our journey began after we mentioned we wish 0 fatality in our firm,” he continued.

Charton additionally underlined what the Index is bringing to corporations: “Benchmarking is an important work as a result of we can not progress with out it and this Index is a means to see the place we’re, a means to see what we’ve to enhance, a means to see what could be the targets.”

“We had been proud to take part and to be the first audited firm and we’re honoured to be ranked three stars. I hope it’s the very starting of one thing huge that may that may assist all the non-public sector to enhance security on the highway,” he concluded.

The FIA Foundation supported the growth of the Index and FIA Foundation Executive Director Saul Billingsley additionally emphasised the energy of benchmarking and how the Index can turn into a key a part of organisations and corporations’ social duty reporting coverage.

“The Index is a crucial software to assist corporations that haven’t internalised highway security work to see what others are doing, step up, and make the modifications we want. The FIA Foundation hopes that this might be the begin of one thing which can finish with buyers and shareholders viewing corporations’ highway security footprint as a necessary a part of ESG, at the core of social and planetary duty,” he mentioned.

World Health Organization Head of Safety and Mobility Nhan Tran additionally insisted on the proven fact that, when growing the international plan for the Decade of Action 2021-2030, the affect of personal sector entities in shaping safer mobility and transport techniques was highlighted and that the Index affords a tailored resolution to enhance their involvement.

“The efficiency measure of the Index offers a software that’s public, that’s clear, that can be utilized by customers, by the media to maintain non-public sector entities accountable for his or her highway security footprint. This is a really distinctive mechanism that has been put in place by the FIA Index that helps us to work in parallel with authorities actions and with the non-public sector actions. For us, this can be a actually vital milestone by way of our engagement technique with each public and non-public sector,” he mentioned.

Swedish Transport Administration Director of Traffic Safety Maria Krafft, who had been concerned in the growth of the FIA Road Safety Index as a part of the pilot part, additionally insisted on the want to onboard the non-public sector and defined that it should be understood that mobility can solely be sustainable whether it is protected.

“I believe that we want to be significantly better at together with highway security in the sustainability world as a result of that’s the place the non-public sector is and that’s the language the non-public sector understands. We could be higher at exhibiting the drawback and the degree of highway security penalties. So I believe that this benchmarking software will help us to get on the market,” she declared.