Report on Road Safety Awareness Programme

The Health and Safety Committee of the Engineering Department organised a road safety awareness programme on 21 January 2019 from 11.00am to 11.30am in B112 and from 2pm to 2.30pm in B004 for the II Year Diploma students.  The speakers of the programme were Mr S. Manikandan and Dr Alfred Franklin and they explained the procedures and precautions to be taken while driving to create awareness on road safety and how to avoid road traffic accidents (RTA).

They presented the annual statistical report on the increasing rate of road accidents in Oman. Extraordinary speed and poor driving aptitudes are considered as the main causes of road accidents in Oman. Consistently, more than 900 individuals are killed, of which 86% are men. As passengers and drivers of cars make up 60% of the fatalities, tending to key hazard factors such as seat-belt and child limitations are crucial to developing a culture of road safety across the country. Moreover, he stressed the significance of speed control, wearing seatbelts and other relevant forces acting on vehicles with the help of slide shows and videos.