The head of the national road network monitor has defended its safety staffing levels, despite not having a single member of staff working on safety full-time.
Last year, Transport Network’s sister publication, Highways, revealed that the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) had a permanent road safety staffing level of effectively ‘less than one person’.
At the time its entire highways team was the full-time equivalent (FTE) of 16.6 people (17 headcount) and responsibility for all areas of ORR’s highways monitoring for the strategic road network was shared across this team, with no staff member given a sole focus on monitoring safety.
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