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About Safety Management Systems (SMS)

Safety management systems encourage road controlling authorities to adopt safety management systems. These systems ensure that decisions about construction, maintenance and management of road networks consider safety and help achieve targets and goals identified in national and local road safety strategies.

The NZ Transport Agency is committed to provide ongoing assistance and advice for road controlling authorities in the development and implementation of their safety management systems.

Guidelines for developing and implementing a safety management system for road controlling authorities may either be downloaded from this website or a copy obtained from Transport Agency offices.

SMS supporting documents

Guidelines for developing and implementing a safety management system for road controlling authorities

Part 1 Development guidelines
Part 2 Implementation guidelines
Part 3 Toolbox
Part 4 Examples.

Quick check sheets – example visual check sheets for RCA staff and contractor field staff to assess common maintenance issues. Note the intervention levels shown reflect Hamilton City Council requirements.
Quick check sheet reporting form – example form for reporting roading deficiencies identified by using the quick check sheets.
Deficiency database and prioritisation process - background, model spreadsheet, workbook and power point training information.

SMS related reports

Conference papers

Establishing safe systems throughout Local Government in New Zealand, Australasian Collage of Road Safety Conference, Perth, November 2009.

Reports

Deficiency database & prioritisation process project, November 2005.
Standards and guidelines assessment, Jackett Consulting, June 2006.
Theme audit of safety management system uptake, Jackett Consulting, July 2007.

SMS workshop proceedings

Between 2003 and 2007 annual SMS workshops were held to share knowledge and innovations arising from the development of RCA SMS. Copies of the workshop proceeding are available on CD by contacting networkstandards@nzta.govt.nz.