The Road Safety GB Academy has unveiled its calendar of training courses for the first quarter of 2026.
Established in 2013, the RSGB Academy is the professional development arm of Road Safety GB. The Academy helps road safety practitioners enhance their skills in order to deliver effective, evidence-led road safety interventions.
All of the courses offered in the Academy’s programme are delivered in a Zoom virtual classroom, meaning candidates can participate from the convenience of their home or office.
The newly-announced courses are as follows:
14-15 January 2026
Safe System Course
This two-day course explores a range of subjects associated with implementing a Safe System, including: Safe Speeds, Safe Roads and Roadsides, Safe Vehicles, Safe Road Users and Post-Crash Response. The course has a strong focus on the need to work in partnership, not only with road safety professionals but the wider community. This course is suitable for those who design or deliver road safety interventions.
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21-22 January 2026
Two-Day Behavioural Change Course
This course is designed to give road safety practitioners an insight into the world of behavioural change models and techniques, and how interventions can be developed that will look at the underlying issues associated with risk related behaviour, and ultimately collisions.
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28 January 2026
Half-day Print and broadcast media course
This half-day course, delivered with media expert Rebecca Morris, will cover a range of topics, including: Understanding the media landscape, defining a newsworthy story, storytelling with impact, responding to negative or challenging coverage and preparing for radio/TV interviews.
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29 January 2026
Health and the Environment
This course is aimed at road safety practitioners who wish to improve their knowledge and understanding of how vehicle use impacts our health and the environment and explore a range of recent interventions to reduce this issue.
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30 January 2026
Half-day Social and digital marketing course
This half-day course, delivered by Chris Wolstenholme, will provide an overview of social media, covering the platforms, demographics and target reach. Among other things, it will consider age restrictions to be aware of especially with work in school settings, and the role of corporate communications within organisations in relation to social media.
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4-5 Feb 2026 (part one) & 11-12 March 2026 (part two)
Road Safety Practitioner Foundation Course
This course aims to provide participants with an overview of the knowledge and skills they need to effectively and safely deliver a road safety educational intervention. The course provides participants with an overview of the whole process from identifying a road safety issue, to developing an intervention and through to evaluation.
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11 February 2026
Introduction to the Needs of Older Road Users
As the population ages it will become increasingly important for road safety practitioners to understand the needs of older road users. This is a complex area and covers a wide range of medical conditions and societal challenges. This course will introduce a road safety practitioner to these challenges, with the aim of helping them to develop road safety interventions that will support older road users, in order to maximise their safety.
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25-26 February 2026
Road Safety Evaluation Course
Often road safety practitioners recognise the need to evaluate but are concerned that they do not have the skills to complete an appropriate level of evaluation. This course aims to provide the practitioner with these skills and to help them to recognise when they may need to consider accessing external support.
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3 March 2026
Introduction to Statistics
The course aims to improve the participant’s capability to develop targeted road safety interventions by improving their ability to correctly analyse and interpret data.
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24 March 2026
Behavioural Change Course for Highways Engineers
This course is essential CPD learning for civil highway engineers, urban planners and other related disciplines around the development of infrastructure that will impact on the safety of road users. It will provide them with a wider understanding of the relationship between the built environment and the ‘road user’, enabling them to explore, design and implement infrastructure that will take into account the limitations of the ‘human’ in the system.
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As well as the new 2026 courses, places remain on several courses taking place over the coming months.
Click here to see the full calendar of Academy online training courses, or for more information or assistance contact Academy administrator Sally Bartrum by email.
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