SYNOPSIS

The Road Safety Plan of Malaysia (RSPM) for the year 2014 to 2020 was developed to be synchronized with the recommendations of the United Nations Decade of Action (DOA). The DOA was launched to address the global road fatalities. It is predicted that if no additional action was taken, there would be a loss of 1.9 million lives on the road each year by the year 2020. RSMP was developed based on the five pillars of DOA, namely, Road Safety Management, Safer Vehicles, Safer Road Users, Safer Roads and Mobility and Post-Crash Management. For each pillar there are relevant programs to be implemented and relevant intermediate and ultimate outcomes to be achieved. The current status of MRSP will also be presented.

  
BIODATA OF SPEAKER

Ir Mohd Rasid Osman is currently the Director of the Vehicle Safety and Biomechanics Research Centre of MIROS.  Before joining MIROS in 2008, he was a lecturer at the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University Putra Malaysia (UPM). He has a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from University of Sussex (UK)  and MSc in Engineering Production from the University of Birmingham (UK) His involvement in road safety since joining MIROS includes active participation as one of the resource persons and in promoting the implementation of Safety, Health and Environment Code of Practice (SHE COP) among express bus operators, promoting the importance of quality improvements among driving institutes, involvement in driving curriculum development, involvement in crash investigation, involvement in SHE COP auditing, involvement in presenting the importance of SHE COP among the main players, promoting “Road Safety” to all relevant stakeholders, mentoring and advising the young research officers in conducting research, promoting MIROS at several conferences and seminars and as chairman of the organizing committee of the 1st MIROS Road Safety Conference (ROSCON2010). He has also participated in collaborative drivers training with organizations outside MIROS and has being referred by external industry players on drivers training. He is also involved with the Land Public Transportation Commission that oversees the public transportation and commercial transportation activities in Malaysia.  He is a registered professional engineer with the Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM) and a member of The Institution of Engineers Malaysia (IEM)