Over 220 delegates attended the Roadworker Safety Leadership Summit 2015 to discuss and debate the issues around roadworker and road user safety today (Wednesday 21 October). 
Themes being examined during the day included: stronger engagement from local authorities, moving from data to intelligence, identifying good practice and how to roll it out, looking beyond the highways sector for examples, achieving a consistent approach and standards to ways of working.
A large emphasis was also placed on lessons to be learnt around leadership culture and what drives the right behaviours which are conducive to prioritising safety and good practice.  Clarity was given on the need for leadership to come from all levels of an organisation and not just an expectation of senior management.
Strong suggestions were offered on the need to use positive language to encourage good behaviours and effective messaging around appreciation and reward for when best practice was exercised.
Collaboration has been an ongoing theme for the past 5-10 years and was again noted as a critical approach to take with ideas presented on single campaigns stretching across the industry to reduce the levels of accidents and near misses and various strands of actions that will become the legacy provided by this industry event.
More on the outcomes of the event will be published soon, as the discussions turn into plans and actions.