The Fundamentals of Road Safety

About the course

Road Safety Fundamentals is the only course of its kind from a Go8 University and is designed to equip participants to drive change in road trauma and safety outcomes through collaboration and strategic partnership opportunities that will amplify impact.

Delivered entirely online, this course offers the flexibility to balance professional growth with existing commitments. With a self-paced structure, complemented by weekly interactive sessions, participants can finish the course by the end of 2025.

Comprising four ‘intensive units’, each spanning six weeks, the curriculum delves into evidence-based approaches to road safety, the importance of road safety management and leadership, knowledge of relevant crash and injury data sources, applying the evidence for population-level intervention, building effective partnerships, and communicating with influence to improve road safety outcomes.


Who should apply?

Designed for aspiring road safety professionals, participants will acquire tools and frameworks to implement practical and innovative solutions to road safety challenges. The program fosters a vibrant networking environment with like-minded road safety professionals, and facilitates the exchange of world-leading practices and opportunities to overcome challenges within your organisation.


What's covered in the course?

The course comprises four units to be completed:

  • Road safety fundamentals

    Cultivating an in-depth understanding of Safe System and its application within the context of current national and international road safety policy; to foster a commitment to the application of evidence-based approaches to improving road safety; and to develop practical skills and tools that assist practitioners to deliver evidence-based and effective road safety interventions.

  • Applying behavioural science to road safety

    Addressing public policy challenges and identifying real-life behavioural solutions. This involves prioritising behaviours and target audiences and understanding underlying drivers of behaviour and potential solutions. Learn to work collaboratively to design, test and evaluate behaviour change interventions.

  • Using data for evidence-based decision-making in road safety

    This unit equips students with the tools to critically appraise data used to inform road safety problems. Covering key principles of public health and safety frameworks relating to road safety; it highlights why, how, and where data sources are generated; and how to evaluate data quality principles, implications and ethical issues.

  • Communicating for influence in road safety

    Exploring theoretical frameworks and practical methodologies to work through case studies and develop the tactics and strategies of effective change agents. This involves methods for stakeholder analysis, how to change the thinking and behaviour of others in order to pursue a common goal, the personal attributes that form the basis of influence in the workplace, and how effective road safety practitioners can apply influence for change.


Meet the teaching team

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Course contact

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Associate Professor Carlyn Muir                                                
Associate Director - Education

Email: carlyn.muir@monash.edu
Phone: +61 3 9905 3899

Lesley Rees
Education Manager

Email: lesley.rees@monash.edu
Phone: +61 3 9903 5181