SoRSA Membership open to all!

SoRSA membership is now open directly to all those who work in road safety and road safety audit. This opening up of the membership of SoRSA is the start to fulfilling the requirements of the EU Infrastructure Directive and the establishment of a formal accreditation process for road safety auditors. Those involved in road safety work and particularly road safety audit who do not wish to have formal membership of CIHT can now join SoRSA direct by paying a one off application fee followed by an annual subscription for SoRSA membership. The MSoRSA membership appraisal process currently validates auditors with appropriate auditing experience as sufficiently qualified to meet the requirements of HD19/03 allowing them to undertake audits on the Highways Agency’s motorway and trunk road network and thereby the TERN network, the specified network in the EU Directive.
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SoRSA Annual General Meeting & Conference 2011

Constitution 2011  

2011 AGM Minutes  

The Chartered Institution of Highways & Transportation (CIHT) Society of Road Safety Auditors (SoRSA) held its fourth annual conference on Monday 13 and Tuesday 14 June in Birmingham.

Copies of the Conference presentations are available here

Monday’s events began in the afternoon with two workshops (Interim & Stage 4 Audits and Risk Assessment), which were repeated so that each of the delegate was able to attend both workshops. These were followed by the Society’s Annual General Meeting, during which there were elections for several vacant positions on the SoRSA Committee, it was encouraging that so many members wish to become part of the Society resulting in the need for elections.

The AGM marked the completion of Ian Medd’s two year term of office as Chairman and he is succeeded by Julian Bartlett. Following the AGM, the delegates were treated to presentations by two young SoRSA members competing for the SoRSA Branch Young Engineer’s Award. Stewart Knowles from Jacobs gave his presentation on passive safety, followed by Shane Martin, also from Jacobs, with his presentation on auditing of the 2012 Olympic Routes.  The judging panel, made up of Julian Bartlett, Libby Sands and Richard Jones then moved off into a huddle to make their decision. After all of this hard work the delegates gathered for their evening dinner, before retiring to the bar, where else!

The remainder of the conference took place on Tuesday and was attended by 126 delegates from both the public and private sectors. The welcome address was given by CIHT President Geoff Allister, who announced the winner of the SoRSA Young Engineer competition; Stewart Knowles, who became the first recipient of the Peter Bane Memorial trophy, kindly, donated by Libby Sands, the Inaugural Chairman of SoRSA. Stewart now goes on to represent SoRSA at the Colas national finals.

Following on from the award ceremony were some excellent presentations covering such topics as ‘Managed Motorways’, ‘The EU Directive on Road Safety Audit’ and ‘Quality Audits’. The afternoon session was of an equally high standard with talks on ‘Road User Behaviour’, ‘Road Restraint Systems’ and the processes involved in assessing and auditing a major highway project in Kenya. It was a lively day with many diverse questions and discussions generated by the presentation topics

The conference has been regarded as a huge success. The large turnout was particularly encouraging in the light of the current economic climate and spending cuts across the industry.