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Road Safety Fundamentals
Concepts, Strategies, and Practices that Reduce Fatalities and Injuries on the Road

U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration

UNIT 4. Solving Safety Problems

Table 4-3: Steps of the Site-level Safety Management Process
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Table 4-3: Steps of the Site-level Safety Management Process; description of the table in the image follows.

Table 4-3: Steps of the Site-level Safety Management Process
Safety Management Components Steps of Site-level Safety Management
Identify Safety Problems Step 1. Network screening: Identify locations that could benefit from treatments to reduce crash frequency and severity.
Step 2. Diagnosis: Identify crash trends and patterns based on reported crashes, assess the crash types and severity levels, and study other elements that characterize the crashes.
Develop Potential Safety Solutions Step 3. Countermeasure selection: Identify appropriate countermeasures to target crash contributing factors and reduce crash frequency and severity at identified locations.
Step 4. Economic appraisal: Estimate the economic benefit and cost associated with implementing a particular countermeasure or set of countermeasures.
Select and Implement Strategies Step 5. Project prioritization: Develop a prioritized list of safety improvement projects, considering available resources.
Step 6. Safety effectiveness evaluation: Evaluate how a particular countermeasure (or group of countermeasures) has affected crash frequency and severity where it was installed.

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Felix Delgado, FHWA Office of Safety
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