About Road Safety Education
What we do?
The department's Road Safety Education Program aims to empower all children and young people in NSW public schools to be safe road users now and into the future.
Our team provides quality road safety education support and professional learning to teachers in NSW public schools K-12.
Our Road Safety Education Officers:
- tailor service delivery to meet school and student needs. Register your interest online
- facilitate professional learning workshops - supporting primary schools, secondary schools and schools for specific purposes (SSPs) with implementing best practice road safety education, as part of the PDHPE K-10 syllabus, Stage 6 PDHPE Life Skills syllabus and Stage 6 Life Ready course
- support the teaching of key road safety messages for pedestrians, passengers, wheels users and future drivers
- build the capacity of teachers to develop contextualised quality teaching and learning materials to implement best practice road safety education
- assist schools to develop resources that promote safe travel in the school community through a whole-school approach
- support principals to address and manage road safety issues in and around schools
- provide advice to principals and schools about the implementation of the Road safety education procedures and duty of care obligations.
Quick guides to implement road safety education
Teachers can use these quick guides to assist them in their role to implement effective road safety.
Partnership with Transport for NSW and the other education sectors
Proudly supported by Transport for NSW
Transport for NSW's Road Safety Education Program is the NSW Government’s leading model for educating children and young people how to stay safe on and around our roads.
The Department of Education shares in a partnership with Catholic Schools NSW, the Association of Independent Schools of NSW, and Kids and Traffic (the Early Childhood Road Safety Education Program) to ensure all teachers across NSW schools are equipped with quality resources and professional learning opportunities.
Together, these partners have been delivering road safety education to NSW schools since 1986—building lifelong skills and behaviours that keep our communities safe.

