The Society of Road Safety Auditors (SoRSA) are delighted to announce the return of the SoRSA East Midlands Road Safety Workshop for 2024.
This in-person workshop promises to be an inspirational and good day of learning, with the opportunity to catch-up with industry colleagues and meet new people from across the sector.
The aim of this workshop is to provide insight into a variety of road safety topics, from motorcycle collision investigation, inclusive urban environment, active travel and technological innovation, to human factor and safe system approach, finishing off with a road safety workshop.
This event is open to all and will appeal to anyone with an interest in road safety, highways and transportation, particularly road safety auditors, highway engineers and designers. Ticket options are available for CIHT and SoRSA members, as well as non-members.
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The Derby Conference Centre located at London Road, Alvaston, Derby, DE24 8UX, is looking forward to providing us with a warm welcome, top-class hospitality and facilities throughout the day, including drinks, refreshments, and lunch.
All attendees must sign in at the reception. And for attendees travelling by car, please ensure that they register their cars at the reception.
For any queries about the workshop please contact Dr Jwan Kamla at: jwan.kamla@jacobs.com
If you have any queries about booking and tickets, please contact regions@ciht.org.uk
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Morning
09.30 Arrival
Meet & greet with SoRSA Committee volunteers and refreshments (Coffee/tea & biscuits)
10.00 Introduction from SoRSA - Eric Hill, Chair of SoRSA
10.15 Systems thinking - Breaking out of our mental traps - Dr Claire Williams, Technical Director at Claire Williams Consultants Ltd
10.45 Inclusive Urban Environment - Antony Clewes, Area Manager at Waterman Aspen
11.15 Break and refreshments (Coffee/tea & biscuits)
11.30 The importance of sharing victims’ voices - Rebecca Morris, Head of Communications at RoadPeace
12.00 Panel Questions - Dr Claire Williams, Antony Clewes and Rebecca Morris
Afternoon
12.30 Lunch (Networking and two course savoury finger buffet lunch)
13.30 Motorcycling, when it goes wrong - Eric Hill, Principal Engineer at Sweco UK Ltd and Chair of SoRSA
14.00 AI-powered solutions for near miss detection - Mac Needham, Business Development Manager at VivaCity
14.30 - Panel Questions - Eric Hill, Mac Needham
14.50 Break and refreshments (Coffee/tea & biscuits)
15.00 Workshop – Is this a crash problem? - Matt Smith, North Yorkshire Council (Joined by Dr Jwan Kamla)
16.00 Closing Remarks
10.15 - Dr Claire Williams - Systems thinking - Breaking out of our mental traps
Have you ever felt the way you are approaching an issue at work or at home isn’t working?
Perhaps, in order to make sense of the complexity, you reduce your issue down into small parts, and now feel like you’re no longer looking at what is really going on?
Maybe you have the sense that there is more going on ‘behind’ the data you have, and you don’t know how to begin to surface the connections you feel are there?
Or perhaps you’re just wondering whether the Safe System approach to road safety is what we mean by systems thinking?
If any of these is you, come and join us for a brief session of systems thinking activities and discussion led by Dr Claire Williams - Human Factors and Behaviour Change specialist and Systems thinking enthusiast.
“We the trapped, tend to take our own state of mind for granted - which is partly why we are trapped.” Vickers, G. (1972) Freedom in a Rocking Boat, London, Penguin.
Claire is a Chartered Human Factors Specialist. Human Factors is all about making things (products, processes, systems…) the best they can be for the people who use them - whilst also making sure those things achieve what they were designed for. An important way of doing this is to take a systems thinking or ‘holistic’ approach to design – understanding and accounting for how people really live and work and how the things being designed and used are part of that. As well as her consultancy work she is a research associate for UKROEd and a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Derby.
10.45 - Antony Clewes - Inclusive Urban Environment
As the built environment scrambles to combat the climate crisis and improve the environmental sustainability of urban environments, is social sustainability falling to the wayside of the sustainability conversation?
Explore why inclusive urban environments are crucial to fulfilling the UK commitments to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The speaker will also discuss some of the challenges faced when retrofitting existing urban areas for the inclusion of all members of society.
An Area Manager with Waterman Aspen, Antony has worked on a myriad of projects, such as large-scale section 278 projects, and HS2.
He has studied Civil and Transportation Engineering at Bachelors level at the University of Wolverhampton, and Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment at Masters level at the University of Cambridge.
Antony holds IEng with the ICE. He is a Fellow of both the CIHT and the IHE, and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts (RSA). He is a CIHT Council Member and Trustee.
11.30 - Rebecca Morris - RoadPeace, the national charity for road crash victims
With 20 years' experience in road safety communications, Rebecca Morris is passionate about raising awareness around road harm and influencing behaviour in order to reduce road deaths and injuries. Throughout her career, she has worked with police forces and highway authorities across the UK and worldwide.
Over the years, she has also supported many private businesses to promote their road safety solutions, placing the emphasis on their casualty reduction commitments and the benefits to road users. She is currently Head of Communications at RoadPeace, the national charity for road crash victims, helping to strengthen road crash victims voices and campaigning for justice, which she carries out alongside her role as Director at Vision Zero Communications.
Rebecca previously worked at Derbyshire Safety Camera Partnership as Marketing and Publicity Officer and then spent 16 years as Media and Marketing Manager at Road Safety Support.
Rebecca will explain how RoadPeace, the national charity for road crash victims, helps to support and empower road crash victims and bereaved families, by sharing their stories and campaigning for changes to our road traffic laws and our justice system.
She will mention the charity’s Fix Our Broken Justice System campaign, launched on BBC Breakfast in 2023, along with four bereaved families (https://www.roadpeace.org/take-action/fix-our-broken-justice-system/) The campaign aims to raise awareness about the way the justice system has failed families bereaved by road crashes and victims who have been injured in collisions on the UK’s roads. People who kill with guns, knives and other lethal weapons get long custodial sentences – sending out strong messages to society. But in contrast, dangerous drivers who kill or seriously injure innocent people get far shorter custodial sentences, and some avoid jail altogether.
Rebecca will also share the details of the RoadPeace Challenge 2024, which will take place between May 13-19. Throughout the week of action, police, the fire service, highways organisations and others will join forces with bereaved families to collectively walk, cycle, run, scoot, horse ride 1,766 miles collectively throughout the week to honour the 1,766 people killed on UK roads in 2022. The event will raise vital funds for RoadPeace, as well as awareness around road casualties and the pain endured by so many victims and families every day. There are opportunities for SoRSA members to get involved in the event, so we’d love to tell them more.
13.30 - Eric Hill - Motorcycling, when it goes wrong
Case studies of serious and fatal motorcycle collision that have occurred in Scotland, with a look at the contributory factors associated with the road layouts and rider perceptions.
Eric has been working within highways, traffic and road safety engineering for over 30 years.
This work has included investigation of motorcycle collisions across the Scottish road network, and the design and monitoring of interventions.
He joined Tayside Police as a Special Constable in 2002 when considering a career change and became a “career Special” working with roads policing in Perth for almost 10 years. A significant proportion of the fatal and serious incidents Eric attended and assisted with collision investigation were motorcycle collisions.
Eric's interest in road safety also extends to driver training and preparation for the Institute of Advanced Motorists advanced driving test since he became a full member in 1996.
14.00 - Mac Needham - AI-powered solutions for Near Miss detection
Mac has a background in Highways and infrastructure, working with vivacity now for coming up to 3 years, covering the Geographical Areas of the East Midlands, Yorkshire, North East and Scotland.
At VivaCity we lead transformative initiatives at the intersection of technology and urban development.
This session will look into the need for a mindset shift in how Road Safety programmes are approached. There are currently gaps in the road incident and KSI data available, resulting in Road Safety schemes being planned on a reactive, after-the-fact basis.
With the use of AI and computer vision technology, it is now possible to identify incident hotspots and near miss events. You will also learn more about what constitutes a near miss, new technologies such as advanced 3D posing that makes this possible, and understand how near miss data can be a key tool to support evidence-based decisions for Road Safety management.
A showcase of AI-powered computer vision technology application providing accurate road safety data supporting Vision Zero targets included in this session. The presentation also provides a demo of the how near miss data can be visualised via a dashboard and the different types of data available.
15.00 - Matt Smith - Workshop – Is this a crash problem? (Joined by Dr Jwan Kamla)
Matt is a Traffic Management and Road Safety Engineer working for North Yorkshire Council. He is currently the SoRSA representative for the Yorkshire and the Humber Region.
An engineer with over 30 years’ experience gained within the Local Authority and the private sector. Matt has varied experience in highways and transportation related fields including highway maintenance, highway design and construction, site supervision, scheme identification and evaluation, specialising in road safety engineering for the past 27 years.
Matt has carried out numerous road safety audits at all stages and on most types of roads, from unclassified to motorways and was one of the first 100 auditors to obtain the HA Certificate of Competency.
Dr Jwan Kamla is a Principal Operational Road Safety Engineer at Jacobs. She is a Chartered Engineer with 19 years of experience in the area of highway, traffic and road safety engineering.
Jwan is a road safety specialist; she is working on various major projects for National Highways. Jwan is technical specialist lead in the area of data, modelling and collision analysis for various projects. Jwan is also an active road safety auditor, undertaking audits across the National Highways and Local Authority roads in the UK. She holds National Highways Certificate of Competency (via SoRSA).
Jwan is Vice Chair for the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation (CIHT) East Midlands Region and Web Officer for the Society of Road Safety Auditors (SoRSA). In addition, she is a mentor, reviewer and she is a member of the Engineering Professional Review Panel. She is also reviewer for Transportation Research Board, Washington DC.
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