3M to provide support for iRAP’s Star Rating for Schools programme.
LONDON / ST. PAUL, MN (June 9, 2020) – The International Road Assessment Programme (iRAP) et 3M announced today that 3M has become a Global Programme Partner in iRAP’s Système de notation par étoiles pour les écoles (SR4S) programme. 3M will provide an annual contribution to support the programme and its goal of ensuring that children are able to travel safely to and from school.
Road crashes are the biggest killer of young people worldwide and the life-changing impact of injury affects children all around the world. iRAP developed the SR4S system as an evidence-based tool for measuring, managing and communicating children’s exposure to risk on a journey to school. It supports quick interventions that help save lives and prevent serious injuries. SR4S allows the easy assessment of road infrastructure and speed management features and calculates a Star Rating where 1-star is the least safe and 5-star is the safest.
iRAP is a UK registered charity with an objective of international promotion of road safety improvement and road quality for public benefit. iRAP has a vision for a world free of high-risk roads.
“Our children deserve a safe journey to and from school. If we can make our roads safe for kids, they will be safe for everyone,” said iRAP CEO Rob McInerney. “Providing the SR4S tools for free use worldwide will maximise our potential to save children’s lives. 3M’s great support will help make this happen.”
3M is a global corporation who applies science in collaborative ways to improve lives and help solve the world’s toughest challenges. 3M has been a technology and solutions leader in road safety for over 50 years.
“We are very pleased to partner with iRAP and together advance road safety globally,” said Dr. Daniel Chen, Vice President, 3M Transportation Safety Division. “Through the SR4S process and implementation of simple and effective treatments like footpaths, safe crossings, line marking and signage, iRAP and their Lead Partners are making an impact on the lives of school children around the world.”
The SR4S programme officially launched at the 3rd Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety which took place in Sweden in February 2020. 3M joins SR4S as the first of five Global Programme Partners that will support the SR4S Programme, along with the Founding Sponsor FedEx et Donateur Majeur Fondation FIA.
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Additional Resources:
- Télécharger le 3M iRAP Joint Press Release
- Visiter Star Rating for Schools website
- Télécharger le SR4S 2020 Flyer
- Visit the SR4S Video Resources page
- Register your interest ici
- Find out how to Donate ici
- Read the SR4S latest news ici
À propos d'iRAP
iRAP is a registered charity with the vision for a world free of high-risk roads. The charity is active in over 100 countries and works with governments, development banks, mobility clubs, research organisations and road safety NGOs to provide them with the free tools, systems and training to make their roads safer. iRAP’s Star Rating Methodology provides a simple and objective measure of the level of safety which is ‘built-in’ to the road for vehicle occupants, motorcyclists, bicyclists and pedestrians. A 1-star road is the least safe and a 5-star road is the safest. iRAP’s Vaccins pour routes is a valuable online resource unlocking the potential of the world’s largest road infrastructure safety database to explore the human and financial impact of road injury, how safe the world’s roads are and provide the Business Case for Safer Roads. The charity has influenced the safety of over USD$76 billion dollars of infrastructure investment, has Star Rated over 1 million kms of roads and trained over 22,000 people globally. iRAP is the umbrella programme for regional road assessment programmes including EuroRAP, ChinaRAP, AusRAP, usRAP, KiwiRAP, IndiaRAP, BrazilRAP, South Africa RAP, ThaiRAP and MyRAP and is financially supported by the FIA Foundation, Global Road Safety Facility and FedEx.
https://irap.org/
About 3M
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À propos de Star Rating for Schools
Star Rating for Schools (SR4S) has, thus far, accessed over 770 schools across five continents and was awarded a Prince Michael International Safety Award in 2018.
SR4S est un outil technique, et son application sera dispensée par le réseau de partenaires principaux, des ONG de premier plan impliquées dans la sécurité routière scolaire qui ont participé au développement de SR4S. Ces ONG expertes soutiendront les organisations cherchant à devenir des partenaires de mise en œuvre en effectuant l'évaluation par étoiles des routes autour d'une école et en intégrant l'approche dans leur engagement auprès d'une communauté scolaire.
Fondation AIP, Initiative Santé des Enfants, Eastern Alliance for Safe and Sustainable Transport (EASST), Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile, Gonzalo Rodriguez Foundation, Alliance Mondiale des ONG pour la sécurité routière, Partenariat mondial pour la sécurité routière (GRSP), Fédération Routière Internationale (FRI), Les enfants en toute sécurité dans le monde, Jeunesse pour la sécurité routière (YOURS) et le Institut des ressources mondiales (WRI)
Governments, Road Safety NGOs, Corporations and local organizations focused on child safety and school road infrastructure can get involved by visiting starratingforschools.org. Ways to make a positive difference include:
- collaborer avec le service de l'Éducation et l'autorité routière de votre région afin d'évaluer et d'améliorer le programme Star Rating for Schools là où vous vivez ou travaillez
- en utilisant l'approche SR4S pour démontrer le chemin le plus sûr vers l'école
- promouvoir des trajets scolaires de 3 étoiles ou mieux pour tous les enfants, en soutien aux objectifs mondiaux de performance en matière de sécurité routière convenus par les États membres de l'Organisation mondiale de la santé
- soutenir un partenaire principal pour développer un programme ciblé d'engagement, d'ingénierie et d'éducation pour les écoles à haut risque
- utiliser l'outil SR4S pour évaluer les améliorations des infrastructures routières avant et après, afin de quantifier le gain de sécurité lié à l'investissement et de célébrer les succès (par exemple, les nouvelles traversées 5 étoiles) lors de coupures de ruban.
- devenir un partenaire de mise en œuvre du programme SR4S
- devenir un donateur SR4S pour soutenir l'action mondiale et
- following the SR4S success stories by signing up to the newsletter
Les partenaires du programme mondial assureront la pérennité du programme SR4S, permettant aux partenaires du monde entier de bénéficier de l'outil sans frais. Grâce à cette généreuse contribution, la coordination mondiale du programme SR4S sera en mesure d'offrir des activités de soutien gratuites telles que des conseils sur le programme, la formation, l'assurance qualité, un service d'assistance logicielle et des améliorations et une maintenance continues du logiciel.
Media Contacts:
Briarlea Green (iRAP)
briarlea.green@iRAP.org
+61.417.583.165
Marcia Lozier (3M)
mllozier@mmm.com
1.651.733.3879
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