ISO 39001:2012 specifies requirements for a road traffic safety (RTS) management system to enable an organization that interacts with the road traffic system to reduce death and serious injuries related to road traffic crashes which it can influence. The requirements in ISO 39001:2012 include development and implementation of an appropriate RTS policy, development of RTS objectives and action plans, which take into account legal and other requirements to which the organization subscribes, and information about elements and criteria related to RTS that the organization identifies as those which it can control and those which it can influence.

• Preventing avoidable death and serious injury in the road traffic system, including the workplace and while commuting.
• Contributing to better planning, design, operation and use of the road traffic system.
• Cutting organizational road crash and incident costs, reducing the number of workdays lost to injury and reducing insurance premiums and repair costs.
• Demonstrating social responsibility, improving organization profile and increasing business.