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Touchstone

ISSN 1179-2426

Transportation

Road-traffic safety management systems – future international Standard

ISO's Standards for road safety cover areas such as crash test dummies, vehicle safety, driving licences, intelligent transport systems, and more. Now ISO is developing a Standard for road-traffic safety management systems, ISO 39001.

'The future ISO 39001 will provide guidance on developing, nurturing, and sustaining a management system for road-traffic safety, and will therefore go a very long way to stopping the current epidemic of road-traffic deaths, an epidemic that is out of control and quickly getting worse in developing countries,' says Dr. Mark Rosenberg, Director of the Global Road Safety Forum.

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NEW PUBLICATIONS

AS/NZS 1754:2010 Child restraint systems for use in motor vehicles

Specifies the requirements for restraining devices for child occupants of passenger cars to reduce the risk of bodily injury in a vehicle impact.
Supersedes AS/NZS 1754:2004

AS/NZS 3629 Methods of testing child restraints

AS/NZS 3629.1:2010 Method 1: Dynamic testing

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STANDARDS WITHDRAWN

  • AS/NZS 1754:2004 Child restraint systems for use in motor vehicles
    Superseded by AS/NZS 1754:2010
  • AS/NZS 3629.1:2004 Methods of testing child restraints – Dynamic testing
    Superseded by AS/NZS 3629.1:2010

STANDARD IN DEVELOPMENT

Transport of dangerous goods on land

Committee: P5433 A1
Project Manager: Bruce Taylor
Estimated Publication Date: August 2010
Comments: Work is underway to update NZS 5433:2007 with the latest changes published by the United Nations Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods (UNRTDG), and changes introduced under the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996. A committee of technical experts has been established to oversee and advise on the necessary changes. A draft of amendments is expected to be released for public comment in March or April 2010.