FIA ROAD SAFETY INDEX

Work-related crashes remain a major health and occupational challenge. Developed by the FIA, with the support of the FIA Foundation, the FIA Road Safety Index gives organisations worldwide a data-driven methodology to assess, manage, report, and improve their road safety footprint to save lives at scale.

Thanks to the Index, organisations can turn road safety commitments into measurable action and accountability by identifying risks, implementing targeted improvements, and strengthening transparency in ESG reporting.

Designed as a long-term performance framework, the FIA Road Safety Index enables organisations to monitor road safety outcomes across their value chain and benchmark progress over time.
Increasingly recognised as a key sustainability issue, road safety plays an important role in achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. As organisations strengthen their ESG commitments, road safety is becoming a greater consideration in governance frameworks, procurement decisions, and value-chain management

STRUCTURE AND METHODOLOGY

The FIA Road Safety Index evaluates an organisation’s performance using a star rating system.

The system includes two ratings: a supply chain rating and a product/service rating. The product/service rating applies only to organisations that deal with road safety-relevant products and/or services. The rating system helps evaluate to what extent an organisation is managing its safety impact.

Currently, the highest rating is three stars, based on assessments in two areas: Commitment and Footprint.

To achieve three stars, organisations and companies must demonstrate solid performance and strong commitment to safety across all assessed areas.

A manual including a toolbox guides the user to conduct the evaluation. There are several steps, shortly introduced below, that organisations need to work through:

The supply/value chain analysis aims to establish an organisation’s sphere of influence in relation to road safety. That refers to where and how the organisation’s activities have an impact on the road traffic system. If an organisation is limiting its analysis to a specific part of the supply/value chain, it should indicate the proportion of the complete chain that was analysed.

In the first step, the organisation is expected to make commitments through policies and targets. These should describe what responsibility the organisation is willing to take within its value chain as well as its approach to reducing its impact on traffic safety. The commitments need to be based on several Safety Performance Factors.

The second step focuses on the ability to collect and define data related to casualties in the organisation’s value chain. Data that can be collected and presented in the form of a Safety Footprint take into consideration employees, contractors, third parties, but also customers or clients.

The Index will expand to a 5-star rating in 2026 and the assessments will cover five areas: Commitment, Footprint, Planning, Monitoring of Safety Performance, and Safety Culture Management & Supply Chain Coverage.

DOCUMENTS TO DOWNLOAD

FIA Road Safety Index - Manual A - Generic Supply Chain

FIA Road Safety Index - Manual B - Products and Services

The Manual document defines a rating system for evaluation of the components of FIA Road Safety Index.

FIA Road Safety Index - Guidance for use

A supporting document to the manual

FIA Road Safety Index - Framework

Framework document describes the basic structure underlying the Road Safety index and what parts the index should include or be based upon

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