The Tasmanian Liberal Government is committed to reducing the number of deaths and serious injuries on Tasmania’s roads and wholeheartedly supports the 2021 Your Speed is Our Safety campaign.
Our long term vision is for a Tasmania where no one is killed or seriously injured as a result of a crash on our roads, but this vision will only become reality if everyone accepts responsibility for road safety.
Our efforts to improve road safety overall are based on the Safe System approach to road safety, and outlined in the Towards Zero Tasmanian Road Safety Strategy.
Safe roads and roadsides is one of the four essential elements of the Safe System approach and includes keeping those people who work on our roads safe in their place of work.
Creating safer roads and roadsides for us all to benefit from means that every day right around the state there are large numbers of people for whom the road is their workplace.
The Your Speed is Our Safety campaign first started in 2016 and is a partnership between the Tasmanian Government, Civil Contractors Federation and the Road Safety Advisory Council.
Tasmania is in the midst of a historic period of investment in our roads and bridges with commitments to upgrading and maintaining our 3,700 kilometres of road, 1,300 bridges and signalised intersections across the state to ensure past investment continue to benefit road users, industry and the state’s ongoing growth.
We are stimulating economic growth, and create more opportunities, and more jobs.
In creating these jobs, we are also well aware that means many of the people doing those jobs will be working close to traffic and we want them all to go home safely at the end of the day.
Tragically, deaths and injuries have occurred on Tasmanian roads over the years due to the risks that exist when working in close proximity to traffic. Reports of incidents within roadworks sites remain frustratingly common.
We want every driver to understand that reduced speed limits are put in place around roadworks for a good reason and the ultimate goal for Tasmania is zero crashes at work sites.
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