About the Safe System

A Safe System benefits all road users and has four essential elements:

• Safe road use (behaviour)
• Safe roads and roadsides
• Safe speeds
• Safe vehicles

Guiding principles of the Safe System

1. The limits of human performance. We all make mistakes and we all need to acknowledge the limits of our capabilities.
2. The physical limits of human tolerance to violent forces. We are physically vulnerable when involved in a traffic crash.
3. Shared responsibility. This means all of us take an individual and shared role in road safety.
4. A forgiving road system so that when crashes do happen, deaths can be avoided and injuries minimised.

Find out how your Local Government can work to acheive a Safe System.