1Finland

FI1

Education

Traffic education for parents: From before childbirth to age 3

StartedIn practice for a long time;no information on the startdate

Objective
To improve the use ofchildren’s safety restraints
by improving the awarenessand knowledge of parents

Participants
Parents

Organizers
The Finnish Road Safety
Council together with childhealth centers (maternitytraining)

Conductors
Personnel and part-time educators of The Finnish Road
Safety Council

EndedOngoing

FI2

Education

Traffic education for children (through age 7): Project “Child in Traffic”

Started
2012

Objective
Participants
To teach very low-level, basic Small children
traffic knowledge and skills
for children

EndedOngoing

FI3

FI4Education

Supporting traffic safety education in elementary schools: Project “Traffic went to a network”

Started2010
Ended
Ends 2014

Objective
To encourage teachers togive traffic safety educationand offer practical up-todate methods

Education

Compulsory education for moped riders

Started01.06.2011

Objective
Participants
To teach the knowledge,
Moped riders
skills and risk awarenessneeded to ride mopeds safely

Ended
Ongoing

FI5

FI6Organizers
Conductors
The Finnish Road Safety
Personnel of The FinnishCouncil together with child
Road Safety Council
health centers and preliminary education organizations

ParticipantsElementary school teachers

Results and assessment-Notes and other information-Basis in law
The law of the Finnish Road
Safety Council

Description
The Finnish Road Safety Council provides basic-level traffic
safety education material for parents to guide their children. The material is delivered at the child’s 4th-year healthcheck.

Results and assessment
The material is evaluatedduring the planning processby the parents and healthcare professionals

Notes and other information-Results and assessment
Notes and other information
Evaluation data from all of
the participants. Teachers
have evaluated the training
days to be very useful andpractical training methods
to be useful in their practicalwork.

Conductors
Personnel of The Finnish
Road Safety Council andEHYTBasis in law
Law of basic education 15§,
the national curriculum forbasic education (integrated inmany subjects), and the lawof The Finnish Road Safety
Council

Description
The Finnish Road Safety Council arranges supplementaryteacher training days locally. The teachers test and participate in active learner-centered traffic safety education
methods.

Organizers
Driving schools

Conductors
Traffic Instructors

Basis in law
The law and act of driver licenses and officially approved
curricula

Description
Driving schools provide training for moped license candidates. The compulsory amount of training is 6 hours oftheory and 3 hours of driving.

Conductors
Traffic Instructors

Basis in law
The law and act of driver licenses and officially approved
curricula

Description
Driving schools provide training for motorcyclist license
candidates. The compulsory amount of training is 2 hoursof theory and 5 hours of driving. There is no theoretical orpractical test.

Results and assessment
Notes and other information
No evaluation data available yet

Basis in law
The law and act of driver licenses and officially approved
curricula

Description
Driving schools provide training for private instructors andcategory B candidates. The compulsory amount of trainingis 3 hours of theory and 4 hours of driving.

Results and assessment
Evaluation is currently insufficient. According to driving
school association feedback report, the majorityof private instructors havebeen satisfied, and a small
minority of lay instructors
has been very critical.

Upgrading licenses for higher-power motorcycles through education

Started19.01.2013
EndedOngoing

Objective
To teach the knowledge,skills and risk awarenessneeded to ride high-power
motorcycles safely

Education

Compulsory driving school instruction for private instructors and learners for driving license category B

Started19.01.2013

Objective
Participants
To improve private instrucNew drivers
tors’ understanding ofteaching processes and goals
and decrease the variationin quality among private
instructors

Ended
Probably ends 1.1.2014

Description
The Finnish Road Safety Council provides training andmaterial for child health center employees. Material isdelivered to parents and the topics are discussed in thematernity training sessions.

Organizers
The Finnish Road Safety
Council with EHYT (an association for substance abuse
prevention) and the Finnish
National Board of Education

Education

Participants
Motorcyclists

Basis in law
Road Traffic Act 88 § andthe law of the Finnish Road
Safety Council. There is no
special obligation to provide
training in this specificsubject, but the parents arerequired to use restraints,
and the Finnish Road
Safety Council is obligatedto provide training for traffic
safety purposes.

Organizers
Driving schools

Organizers
Driving schools

Conductors
Traffic Instructors

Results and assessment
The number of new moped
Notes and other information
licenses has decreased, andnumber of accidents has decreased by an even larger margin

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FI7

Education and campaign

Särmänä liikenteessä - Stay Sharp in Traffic: The traffic safety group discussion method in the Finnish Defence Forces

StartedJanuary 2009

Objective
To help the participants
understand the biggest accident risks for young maledrivers and identify countermeasures

EndedOngoing

FI8Organizers
The Finnish Road Safety
Council together with Finnish Defence Forces and theOrganization of Military
Canteens

Conductors
Basis in law
The employees and part-time The law of The Finnish Road
educators of The Finnish
Safety Council
Road Safety Council

Description
The personnel or part-time educators of The Finnish Road
Safety Council give method-specific training to defence
force corporals, who lead the discussion of selected traffic
safety topics with recruits.

Results and assessment
Notes and other information
A feedback study is complete. Recruits and corporals
have evaluated the discussions very positively.

Organizers
The Finnish Road Safety
Council together with local
rescue departments, police,and schools

Conductors
Personnel of the Finnish
Road Safety Council, rescue
departments, police, andteachers

Basis in law
The law of The Finnish Road
Safety Council

Description
The program combines a dramatized video (showing thecauses leading to a young driver’s accident) and a live presentation of police and rescue service personnel, followed bygroup discussions led by teachers.

Results and assessment
Notes and other information
A feedback study is complete. Students and teachers
have evaluated the intervention very positively.

Organizers
The Finnish Road Safety
Council together with cities/communities

Conductors
Personnel of The Finnish
Road Safety Council andcommunities/cities, police,
and transportation providers, etc.

Basis in law
The national program of internal security program andthe law of The Finnish Road
Safety Council

Description
Results and assessment
Multidisciplinary boards for traffic safety issues are working in about 70% of all Finnish communities/cities. The Finnish
Road Safety Council supports the activities and providesexpertise.

Notes and other information-Conductors
Personnel of The Finnish
Road Safety Council

Basis in law
Finnish road safety act 42 §and the law of The Finnish
Road Safety Council

Description
The Finnish Road Safety Council raises public awarenesswith commercial media advertisements, media releases,
and events.

Results and assessment
Evaluations focus on how
people remember or noticethe campaign

Notes and other information-Conductors
Personnel of The Finnish
Road Safety Council

Basis in law
The law of occupationalsafety and the law of occupational accident insurance
and the law of The Finnish
Road Safety Council

Description
The Finnish Road Safety Council arranged discussion-based
training sessions for mail delivery car drivers. The session
topics were the identification of problems in practical work,
finding solutions, and establishing a commitment to solutions.

Results and assessment
Notes and other information
OLIKO SINULLA SE SALMISEN RAPORTTI? When comparedto other kinds of interventions, discussion-based
approaches produce better
results.

Organizers
Conductors
The Finnish Road Safety
Voluntary motorcycle clubCouncil together with Finnish trainers
Motor Insurers’ Centre and anetwork of trainers and theirorganizations

Basis in law
The law of The Finnish Road
Safety Council and the lawof investigation of traffic
accidents

Description
The Finnish Road Safety Council has condensed the accident
investigation team reports for all fatal motorcycle accidents
in Finland over six years into learning materials. The training
method is learner centered and active.

Results and assessment
Feedback from the participants is collected during the“launch” period

Notes and other information-Organizers
The Finnish Road SafetyCouncil

Basis in law
The law of The Finnish RoadSafety Council

Description
The Finnish Road Safety Council provides web-based
services for the elderly to evaluate their personal driving,health, and behavior.

Results and assessment
Evaluation data is collectedfrom the users.

Notes and other information-Campaign“The Red Chalk”: A traffic safety campaign for secondary schools

Started2013

Objective
To increase the students’
understanding of their risks,consequences of accidents,and safe behavior

Ended
Ongoing

FI9Participants
Young adults

Multidisciplinary
co-operation
StartedIn practice for a long time;no information on the startdateParticipants
Teenagers

Traffic safety work in communities and cities
Objective
Participants
To exchange information and All ages, depending on thecoordinate multidisciplinary focus
traffic safety work in communities and cities

EndedOngoing

FI10Campaign

Look Shiny: A campaign for promoting the use of pedestrian reflectors

StartedObjective
To promote the generalawareness of the benefitsof reflectors and support
their use

Pedestrian reflector campaigns havebeen ongoing for decades.

Ended
Ongoing

FI11

Participants
Pedestrians and variousorganizations

Education

Itella: A case study in voluntary training for work-related driving

Started2009

Objective
To decrease accidents inwork-related driving

Participants
Mail delivery car drivers

Ended
2010

FI12

FI13

Organizers
The Finnish Road Safety
Council with its member
organizations

Organizers
The Finnish Road Safety
Council together with theItella company

Education

Post-licensing voluntary rider education: What can be learned from fatal motorcycle accidents?

Started
2010
Ended
Ongoing

Objective
Participants
To help the participants
Motorcyclists
understand their biggest
accident risks and find countermeasures

Education

A web-based self-evaluation tool for senior drivers

Started2010

Objective
To improve the risk awareness of elderly drivers
through self-evaluation

Ended
Ongoing

Participants
Elderly people

Conductors
Personnel of The Finnish
Road Safety Council

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FI14

Education

Compulsory additional training for professional drivers: Safety-oriented driving

Started
September 2008

Objective
Participants
To enhance the safe and pro- Professional bus and truck
fessional behavior of drivers driver

Ended
Ongoing

Organizers
Companies providing traffic safety training, driving
schools, etc

Conductors
Personnel of companies
providing traffic safety
educationBasis in law
Directive 2003/59/EC of theEuropean Parliament and of
the Council and the nationallaw of professional truck
and bus drivers’ professional
competence

Description
Results and assessment
The professional drivers are required to take 5 days of train- The system is evaluated only
ing every 5 years to maintain their professional licenses.
for availability of training.
One day has to deal with safety-oriented driving.

Notes and other information-