3M to provide support for iRAP’s Star Rating for Schools programme.
LONDON / ST. PAUL, MN (June 9, 2020) - O International Road Assessment Programme (iRAP) e 3M announced today that 3M has become a Global Programme Partner in iRAP’s Classificação por Estrelas para Escolas (SR4S) programa. 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 and Major Donor Fundação FIA.
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Additional Resources:
- Baixe o 3M iRAP Joint Press Release
- Visite Star Rating for Schools website
- Baixe o SR4S 2020 Flyer
- Visit the SR4S Video Resources page
- Register your interest aqui
- Find out how to Donate aqui
- Read the SR4S latest news aqui
Sobre o 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 Vacinas para Estradas 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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Sobre 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.
O SR4S é uma ferramenta técnica e sua aplicação será realizada por meio da rede de Parceiros Líderes, composta por ONGs de renome mundial que atuam na área de segurança viária escolar e que participaram do desenvolvimento do SR4S. Essas ONGs especializadas apoiarão as organizações que desejam se tornar parceiras de implementação, realizando a Avaliação por Estrelas das vias ao redor das escolas e integrando a metodologia em suas atividades junto à comunidade escolar.
Fundo AIP, Iniciativa de Saúde Infantil, Aliança Oriental para Transportes Seguros e Sustentáveis (EASST), Federação Internacional de Automobilismo (FIA), Fundação Gonzalo Rodriguez, Aliança Global de ONGs para a Segurança Viária, Parceria Global para Segurança Viária, Federação Rodoviária Internacional (IRF), Crianças Seguras Brasil, Juventude pela Segurança Viária (YOURS) e o World Resources Institute (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:
- Trabalhar em conjunto com o Departamento de Educação e a Autoridade Rodoviária locais para avaliar e melhorar o sistema Star Rating for Schools (Imposto sobre Transporte Público e Transporte Público) na sua área de residência ou trabalho.
- Utilizando a abordagem SR4S para demonstrar o percurso mais seguro para a escola.
- Defendendo trajetos escolares com classificação de 3 estrelas ou superior para todas as crianças, em apoio às Metas Globais de Desempenho em Segurança Rodoviária acordadas pelos Estados-Membros da Organização Mundial da Saúde.
- Patrocinar um Parceiro Líder para desenvolver um programa direcionado de engajamento, engenharia e educação para escolas de alto risco.
- Utilizando a ferramenta SR4S para avaliar o antes e o depois das melhorias na infraestrutura rodoviária, a fim de quantificar o ganho de segurança associado ao investimento e celebrar e inaugurar o sucesso (por exemplo, novas passagens de nível com classificação de 5 estrelas).
- Tornar-se um parceiro de implementação do programa SR4S
- Tornar-se um doador da SR4S para apoiar a ação global e
- Acompanhe as histórias de sucesso da SR4S inscrevendo-se no boletim informativo
Os Parceiros Globais do Programa garantirão a sustentabilidade do programa SR4S, permitindo que parceiros em todo o mundo se beneficiem da ferramenta sem custos. Com essa generosa contribuição, a Coordenação Global do Programa SR4S poderá oferecer atividades de apoio gratuitas, como consultoria sobre o programa, treinamento, garantia de qualidade, suporte técnico para o software e aprimoramentos e manutenção contínuos do mesmo.
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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