Key principles, their origins, and how they differ to traditional road safety practices.

The ethical imperative behind the Safe System, Vision Zero and the Safe System, safer vs safe, Primary Safe System treatments and Supporting Safe System treatments, Vision Zero planning.

The fundamentals of each element/pillar of the Safe System. What works and what doesn't work to improve the safety of roads and roadsides, vehicles, speeds, people, post-crash care and governance/management.

Kinetic energy tolerance of humans under different crash conditions, the influence of crash angle on energy transfer, speed mass angle calculations, vehicle energy management features, estimating acceptable energy levels in crash predictions.

Addressing exposure, likelihood and severity. Categorising treatments into Primary and Supporting treatments. Combining treatments (redundancy in the system).

Treatments that align highly with Safe System principles within categories of a Movement and Place framework.

Effective low cost treatments and their development, design and application. Including compact roundabouts, pop-up infrastructure, speed limit reductions, side road activated speed limits, audio tactile edgeline, etc.

Effective conventional treatments, their development, design and application. Including roundabouts, road safety barrier systems, grade separation, separated cycling and walking facilities, etc.

The expected impact of various treatments on fatal and serious injury outcomes. Wider benefits or challenges such as environmental impacts, gender impacts, mode shift and traffic movements. Linking with other policy objectives such as health, active transport, workplace health and safety, environmental sustainability, social equity, and economy.

Using Safe System principles and thinking to solve unsolved issues. The process for innovation within the public road/street environment. Examples of innovative treatments and their impact.

Travel speeds of different road user types that are considered survivable. Assumptions and estimates within Safe System speeds. Speed basics (mean speeds, 85th or 95th percentile speeds, outliers, advisory and regulatory speed limits). Using speeds to predict crash reduction factors.

The conventional process for setting speed limits vs. a Safe System approach to speed limit setting.

Infrastructure techniques to achieve speed outcomes. Speed limit as a Supporting treatment. Speed as a final filter for Safe System outcomes.

Process for undertaking a conventional speed limit review, and how to add contemporary Safe System thinking into the process.

Treatment choice, effectiveness, design and application.

Risk profiles of various land uses. Access management. Pedestrian generators and their location in proximity to movement corridors.

Fatal and serious injury definitions, DCA/RUM codes, developing a crash matrix, rolling averages, GIS mapping, crash data systems, non-crash based data options to understand risk (speed, volume, RAP, etc.), basic statistics.

The basics of what Network Safety Plans are, how they are developed and how to interpret them for on-ground decision making.

Techniques to identify high risk locations including crash based and non-crash based (e.g. AusRAP, ANRAM, IRR, Audits, Assessments, etc.).

Preparing for, undertaking and reporting a crash investigation. Understanding Safe System elements and thinking within the investigation (crash force tolerances, system boundaries, etc.), analysis of road/roadside features, vehicle damage, speed estimation/prediction. Reporting and proposing countermeasures. Linking to the wider context.

Choosing treatments based on Safe System alignment, land use, road/street function, cost and site constraints. Combining treatments and modifying treatments to achieve Safe System outcomes.

Concept, functional and detailed design of known Safe System solutions such as: roundabouts, road safety barriers, raised crossings, raised intersections, shared zones, separated bicycle facilities, etc.

Undertake a Road Safety Audit in accordance with the Austroads Guide to Road Safety Part 6: Road Safety Audit - including Safe System energy assessment and Safe System categorisation of recommendations. Understand the process of Road Safety Audits within public road/street infrastructure lifecycles.

Undertake a Safe System Assessment in accordance with the Austroads Safe System Assessment Framework. Understand the process of Safe System Assessments within public road/street infrastructure lifecycles.

Understand delivery constraints and challenges associated with common Safe System infrastructure. Techniques for communication of project objectives. Scheduling, contracting and economies of scale to maximise safety outcomes.

Translating key Safe System principles into key messages for varied stakeholder groups. Understanding typical enablers and blockers for different stakeholders when it comes to Safe System solutions. Knowing what works and what doesn't work in road safety messaging, campaigns and community facing initiatives.

Types of data relevant to road safety decision making. Data collection methods. Data cleaning and housing. Privacy and security of data.

Bedding in periods, use of control site data, types of data relevant to road safety decision making. Data collection methods. Data cleaning and housing. Privacy and security of data.

Causation vs correlation in road safety. Control data. Statistical analysis. Development and presentation of treatment effectiveness measures.

Reporting outcomes in abstracts, journal articles, papers and reports. Development of fact sheets, social media content and easily consumable messages from results. Channels for distribution of information.