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APPENDIX B: Summary of Highway Safety Core Competencies from NCHRP Research Results Digest 302
Pages 89-94

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... f. Explain how effective safety management can be used to prevent mor bidity and mortality associated with crash events.
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... CORE COMPETENCY 2 Understand and be able to explain the history of highway safety and the institutional settings in which safety management decisions are made. Learning Objectives Highway safety professionals should be able to a.
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... CORE COMPETENCY 4 Demonstrate the knowledge and skills to assess factors contributing to highway crashes, injuries, and fatalities, identify potential countermeasures linked to the contributing factors, apply countermeasures to user groups or sites with promise of crash and injury reduction, and implement and evaluate the effectiveness of the countermeasures. Learning Objectives Highway safety professionals should be able to a.
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... CORE COMPETENCY 5 Be able to develop, implement, and manage a highway safety management program. Learning Objectives Highway safety professionals should be able to a.
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... f. Identify sources of current research that support effective highway safety management (e.g., NCHRP Report 501, TRIS, Accident Analysis and Prevention, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Review, SAE, Injury Prevention)
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