Design Manual for Roads and Bridges : Vol. 0: Introduction and General Requirements, Section 2: General Guidance, Part 3: Standard for Safety Risk Assessment on the Strategic Road Network

This Standard updates and clarifies requirements and guidance for addressing safety risks in relation to the design of the strategic road network (SRN).

It gives the approach which must now be applied by all Highways Agency staff and supply chain in all administrative and technical aspects when designing, operating and constructing the SRN where safety should be a consideration.

This includes: planning, preparing, designing and constructing highway works; maintenance, demolition and improvements, project and schemes; when revising Agency technical standards, specifications and requirements.

A key requirement of this standard is that appropriate safety risk assessment, evaluation and management is undertaken to inform all activities, projects and decisions and that documentation is kept which evidences the decision making process.

Application of this standard will ensure that safety risk and investment decisions affecting the SRN are made consistently, robustly, transparently and represent value for money