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3Road safety core competencies can be described in general as the set of KSAs underlying any of the associated safety disci- plines. TRB Special Report 289: Building the Road Safety Profes- sion in the Public Sector defines road safety professionals as â. . . workers who spend all or most of their workday on matters per- taining directly to road safety, such as assessing safety perform- ance and needs; planning, developing, and implementing safety initiatives; and taking specific actions related to safety. Exam- ples of full-time safety professionals are road safety engineers, directors and staff of governorsâ highway safety offices, safety regulators, safety data analysts, safety program developers and evaluators, and patrol officers dedicated to traffic safety.â4 Certain other occupations have a direct bearing on safety, such as traffic engineers. Special Report 289 estimated roughly 10,000 full-time road safety professionals are employed in federal, state, and local government, and a much larger work- force contributes to road safety on a regular basis, even though many of these workers may not view their jobs as safety related. The entire audience for Road Safety 101 may be as large as 100,000 professionals. C H A P T E R 3 Intended Audience 4Special Report 289: Building the Road Safety Profession in the Public Sector (2008). Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Washington, D.C.
