11/05/2016
Road Safety Wales Conference
Tomorrow (Thursday 12 May), road safety professionals from across Wales will meet at the Road Safety Wales Conference at the Metropole Hotel in Llandrindod Wells.
Topics for the morning session will include:
- It’s All About Preventability – a presentation by Tom Mullarkey, RoSPA
- Workplace Domino - Simon Brown and John Bolton of South Wales Fire and Rescue Service
- The Work of GoSafe – The Wales Road Casualty Reduction Partnership
Five presentations planned for the afternoon session are:
- Sgt Rob Heard, Hampshire Constabulary – Driving Safer For Longer
- Rachel Maycock, Living Streets – Why Walk? Active Travel is for Everyone
- Craiger Solomons, Welsh Government - An Overview of Welsh Road Accident Statistics
- Lee Hackett,The British Horse Society –Dead Slow
- Carly Brookfield, Driving Instructors Association – Evolving Driver Education – Designing a Driver Education Regime to Deliver a Thinking Driver
The gathering will also be an opportunity for Road Safety Wales to thank this year’s award recipients. The Road Safety Wales Awards recognise the good road safety practice, innovative projects and personal contributions being undertaken in Wales.
Recipients this year are:
- South Hook LNG Terminal Company - Longstanding supporters and sponsors of road safety initiatives in Pembrokeshire
- Breakthrough Project Road Safety Awareness – a partnership approach to road safety issues in Rhondda Cynon Taf
- Coleg Sir Gâr - in recognition of their work in Carmarthenshire’s Young Driver Programme
- Jennie and Digby Rees – Publicans from the Vale of Glamorgan who actively promote road safety around the local primary school
- Daisy Lambe - in recognition of her dedicated long service as a School Crossing Patrol in Pembrokeshire