Get ready for National Road Safety Week 2025
About
Around 1,200 people are killed each year on Australia’s roads and about 40,000 are seriously injured. Even one death on our roads is one too many.
National Road Safety Week is an annual initiative from the Safer Australian Roads and Highways (SARAH) Group, partnering road safety organisations and Government. The week highlights the impact of road trauma and ways to reduce it.
SARAH was founded by Peter Frazier OAM, whose daughter Sarah was killed by a truck driver in an avoidable crash on the Hume Freeway in New South Wales in 2012. Since then, he has dedicated his life to improving road safety in Australia and overseas.
Championing road safety
This year, National Road Safety Week is taking place from 11-18 May. The week provides a great opportunity for all people to raise awareness of the importance of road safety and to embed road safety as 'business as usual' in workplace policies and procedures.
Ideas for raising awareness
Download National Road Safety Week graphics and short videos for sharing through social media channels.
You can also download and print MACA’s road safety posters.
Embedding road safety within your organisation
Beyond raising awareness, there are actions that organisations can take to embed safe transport in a sustainable way in day-to-day processes and practices. For example, allied health organisations may include discussion questions about motor vehicle transport in family interviews to ensure proactive education with families on this topic.
Read about how Noah’s Ark and Cerebral Palsy Alliance have embedded road safety into their policies and procedures.
Promoting staff safety
We’re promoting the safety of care sector staff on our roads with a 30 per cent discount for course enrolments of our Workplace Road Safety Leadership course during National Road Safety Week (11-18 May).
For many allied health professionals and product suppliers, travel on the roads is an essential part of day-to-day work. Or they may be in leadership or management roles with responsibilities for staff who travel as part of their work.
Travelling on our roads is by far the most significant contributor to work-related injury and death in our country.
Our Workplace Road Safety Leadership course aims to raise awareness of road safety as an important work health and safety issue and to give organisations the knowledge, information, and tools to identify and manage vehicle related risks.
