Saving Lives Beyond 2025 - Safe Workplaces

20 February 2025

In the run-up for the 4th Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety, the Swedish Transport Administration again convened the Academic Expert Group (AEG2) to develop a new set of recommendations to further accelerate progress. Building on the broad ideas introduced in the first AEG report, the new recommendations  build on the outcomes of the conference in Stockholm, and aim to make a tangible contribution to achieving the target of a 50 percent reduction in global road fatalities and injuries by 2030.

SAVING LIVES BEYOND 2025 – TAKING FURTHER STEPS  describes how organisations, both public and private, can reduce their safety footprint and stimulate others within their sphere of influence to follow their lead.

In particular, the report highlights the right to safe workplaces, and how occupational health and safety obligations can motivate organisations to take on road safety as part of their efforts to demonstrate compliance and assure customers, investors, and business partners of their control of the leading cause of work-related injury deaths. About one-third of global road deaths are work-related and occupational health and safety obligations clearly cover worker safety whether on an employer’s premises or on public roads.