Basic Approaches to Injury Prevention

FIGURE 5.1 Hierarchy of hazard controls for the management of risk. The hierarchy of controls model depicts strategies to reduce risk, with the most effective at the top and the least effective at the bottom. PPE refers to personal protective equipment. 

Eliminating Serious Injury and Death from Road Transport 

It is a fascinating fact within the history of traffic safety interventions that we have continued to rely for so long on the three least effective strategies at the bottom of the hierarchy of injury prevention controls. 

The history of traditional traffic injury prevention efforts can be summed up iu the followiug three approaches, the 3Es of educatiou, euforcemeut, aud eugiueeriug  

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