For business purposes, all travel routes should be assessed from its hazards and risks that would adversely effect to a safe journey. Konsultan safety can help your company to develop a Journey Risk Management Plan (JRMP) and Route Risk Assessment (RRA). RAA is risk assessment that includes driver behavior, vehicle condition for service and vehicle’s load. For a specific for JRMP, here are steps to identify road hazards

1. Select route, specify vehicle type either heavy vehicle, light vehicles or passenger car and prepare a check list for road safety hazard identification.
2. Capture google map as reference road and go for a ride-along. Pay attention and do assessment to its surrounding road, conditions and circumstances encounter experience (See chart of hazards need to be considered)
3. Speak with drivers. What practices, locations or situations do they consider “dangerous”?
4. Record all road segments or points where their hazards are considerable risk contribution during driving
5. Develop JRMP, RRA.
6. Socialize the JRMP and RRA to management and drivers and ask for feedbacks to update.

JRMP and RRA shall become life documents updated regularly because of road hazard changings. Driver who saw any hazards shall inform his supervisor to update the JRMP and RRA to measure that new hazard risk level.

Hazards during Route Risk Assessment.