1 October – 31 October 2026
Tyre Safety Month
Organised by TyreSafe 
Every October, TyreSafe’s Tyre Safety Month promotes the importance of tyre maintenance for road safety. TSM highlights the dangers of driving on poorly maintained or illegal tyres, working towards a future where no one is harmed by tyre-related incidents on UK roads.
For more details contact: theteam@tyresafe.org

7-8 October 2026
Safe System Course (two days)
Organised by RSGB Academy • Delivered via Zoom
This course aims to develop a participant’s strategic understanding of, and ability to implement this proactive method of casualty reduction. It 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.
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16 October 2026
Road Safety Practitioner Foundation Refresher Course
Organised by RSGB Academy • Delivered via Zoom
Designed for anyone who completed their initial Road Safety Foundation Course more than three years ago, the refresher course provides an opportunity to explore the latest developments in the road safety profession and ensure knowledge remains current in a rapidly evolving field.
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8 October 2026
Transport, Planning & Health 2026
Organised by Landor Links, Hosted by Leicester City Council • Leicester City Hall
​Transport, planning and health 2026, now in its sixth successful year, will bring together leaders and practitioners from across transport, public health, planning and policy, active travel and communications to chart an evidence-based path towards the creation of connected and healthy communities across the UK.
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13 October 2026
Behavioural Change Course for Highways Engineers
Organised by RSGB Academy • Delivered via Zoom
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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26 October – 8 November 2026
NPCC Operation Insight
Organised by National Police Chiefs Council
Operation Insight will be focus on two VRUs: pedestrians and horse riders, due to the spike seen in November. The operation will start on 26th October as this is when the clocks change and to also cover
Halloween. The operation will also cover the importance of eyesight and drivers meeting the minimum standard to support the road safety strategy and due to the number of collisions involving older drivers where poor eyesight was a contributory factor.
For more details please contact virginia.ellis@westmidlands.police.uk

27-28 October & 1-2 December 2026
Road Safety Practitioner Foundation Course
Organised by RSGB Academy • Delivered via Zoom
Over the last two decades road safety practice has developed significantly and is now widely recognised as a specialist area of education. Recognising this, the course provides participants with an overview of the whole process from identifying a road safety issue to course development and evaluation. The course is designed for all road safety practitioners currently involved with, or delivering, road safety interventions.
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