Autoliv is among the first to participate in FIA's first Road Safety Index pilot phase. This methodology aims to calculate the safety footprint of organizations based on the assessment of traffic safety of their entire value chain, complementing our vision of Saving More Lives.
The FIA Road Safety Index provides organizations with a methodology to assess their road safety performance and calculate their safety footprint, relying on a similar concept as the carbon footprint calculators. The safety footprint of an organization refers to the number of fatalities and seriously injured persons because of road crashes occurring within its entire value chain.
“The FIA Road Safety Index is a milestone for traffic safety, and it is one of the FIA’s contributions to achieve the United Nations’ target of halving road traffic deaths and injuries by 2030. The Index will help organizations report on their ambitions, actions, and results. It is a true evidence-based prevention tool that is made available to contribute to building a culture of safe mobility. It is my hope that responsible businesses will embrace it to measure their safety footprint and that, ultimately, it will enable to improve safety worldwide, particularly in low- and middle-income countries where most road crashes occur,” said FIA Deputy President for Automobile Mobility and Tourism Tim Shearman.
The Index offers a systematic approach to identify organizations’ value chains and assess how traffic safety is affected by their range of services or products. It is built on a rating system which helps evaluate to what extent an organization is managing its safety impact.
Before its official launch, the FIA Road Safety Index project began in 2020 with a Feasibility Study that allowed to define a prototype. Since the autumn of 2021, Autoliv, IKEA, TotalEnergies, the Swedish transport administration Trafikverket, and two FIA Clubs, the Automobile Club Association (ACA - France) and the Automóvil Club del Uruguay (ACU) have taken part in six pilot projects. The pilot phase allowed to finalize the detailed methodology for the first three stages of the six-step evaluation that is now available to all organizations around the world.
“The implementation of safe system principles into the value chain and operations of public and private organizations everywhere is a game changer for global road safety. The FIA Road Safety Index is the first practical proposal of how this might be done and evaluated. Being part of piloting and refining the FIA Road Safety Index has reconfirmed how important this approach will be, but also brought to light the practical challenges of implementing it,” said Autoliv VP Research Dr. Cecilia Sunnevang.
The methodology will be further expanded in 2023, thanks to the support of the FIA Foundation, and will include specific modules to increase the safety of employees, contractors, third parties, and clients or customers.