A free website to help road-safety practitioners evaluate their education, training and publicity activities has been launched by RoSPA and the Department for Transport.
At the heart of the Road Safety Evaluation website is E-valu-it – an interactive tool that allows practitioners to design and carry out their evaluation, and promotes the publication and sharing of results. The site also includes background information and guidance about evaluation. The site was developed after it was found that road-safety practitioners faced difficulties in evaluating their education, training and publicity (ETP) activities.
Road safety minister Mike Penning said: “This new website will allow local authorities to assess the value of education, training and publicity activities, which will, in turn, help them design high-quality schemes and target them where they will have the most impact.”
Kevin Clinton, RoSPA’s head of road safety, added: “It is recognised that it is much harder to evaluate road safety ETP than road safety engineering. But it is more important than ever that we are able to demonstrate the effectiveness of what we do. The sharing of such information is also important. Road-safety practitioners have much to learn from each other about interventions that have worked and also those that have been less successful.”
The system produces bespoke recommendations for the type of evaluation that could be conducted based on the answers given to a series of questions. It can be used for interventions that are planned, in progress, or have already taken place. All generated results are transferred into an evaluation report template. Users can then add to the template throughout their evaluation, producing a professional report at the end of the process.
To enable knowledge to be shared, users are encouraged to publish their final reports on the wider Road Safety Evaluation website – www.roadsafetyevaluation.com – as well as on the Road Safety Knowledge Centre website and the sites of own organisations.
For more information about using E-valu-it, contact Lindsey Simkins, RoSPA’s road safety research and evaluation officer, on [email protected]
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