management system are indicated:

1) Although for large to mid-sized businesses it has become the stage where the PDCA cycle $ ^{6} $ can be entirely to be circulated within, the situation of small and medium-sized businesses still strongly needs awareness and dissemination.

2) Furthermore, regarding large to mid-sized businesses, cases that could question the effectiveness of ensuring safety are occurring.

On top of that, the following are the directions for the policies ensuring transportation safety in the future:

1) Regarding the awareness and dissemination for small and medium-sized businesses, the cooperation with risk management business of insurance companies that are interested in the dissemination of transportation safety management is promoted,

2) For ensuring the effectiveness of the safety management of the large to mid-sized businesses, the implementation of evaluation focused on the effectiveness and efficacy of the operator's safety management system in evaluating management is been worked at.

Policy Vision Regarding the Safety of Transportation (Overview) ~In particular, regarding ensuring the Safety Management System ~

### 1. Current Situation Towards Ensuring Safety Management System and the Basic Concept

• 5 years passed after the introduction of transportation safety management system in October of 2011. Policy review was conducted in FY2010.

• Focusing on large and medium-sized operators, PDCA cycle is generally maintained. However, cases that demand more effective security also occur.

Request of thorough safety from the Chairman of the House of Representatives of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (triggered by the serious ANK incident)

• Small and medium-sized businesses still have a high necessity of awareness and dissemination.

○ Effects of the Implementation of Transportation Safety Management

• As a result of a sample survey, while the payment of insurance companies to implement safety management is reduced, there is no significant change in the non-obligatory carriers.

• Future Direction Towards Ensuring the Safety of Transportation

• Safety auditing and ensuring compliance with laws and regulations and safety management system by ensuring transportation safety management evaluation are the wheels of the transportation safety vehicle.

• As for the main challenges in transportation safety management, for further consolidation of medium-sized to large businesses - the depth and sophistication of efforts, while for small and medium businesses these are the dissemination and awareness.

* With the cooperation of insurance companies, the amount of insurance payments was converted to 1000 units per insurance contract

2. Direction of concrete efforts towards ensuring future safety management system

Securing and training human resources to perform the transportation safety management evaluation Strengthening of the training program for the management evaluation personnel, considering measures for the improvement of their skills. In particular, the improvement of skills in the local transport bureaus.

$ ^{6} $ PDCA cycle refers to the mechanism of connection between planning (Plan) the action (Do), evaluating it (Check) and consider ways for improvement (Act) to make use of the results in the next planning.