BSI’s Road Safety Conference: Delivering on the UK Road Safety Strategy

Dr Clare Mutzenich is Professor of Human–AI Interaction at Loughborough University and Director of Anthrometric, where her work focuses on how people understand, trust and safely use emerging technologies. Her research brings together human factors, behavioural science, inclusion and public confidence, with a particular focus on automated mobility, driver behaviour, safe system thinking and the evidence needed to support better road safety decisions. 

Clare has led and contributed to Department for Transport and CCAV-funded research on automated vehicles, user readiness, inclusive transport design and emergency response in future mobility systems. She works across academia, industry and government to translate behavioural evidence into practical guidance for policy, design and implementation. As moderator, Clare will bring an independent human factors perspective to the discussion, exploring how ISO 39001 can remain relevant as road safety strategy, driving for work, organisational responsibility and new technologies continue to evolve. 

In May 2018, Meera lost her eight-year-old son, Dev, in a road traffic collision. Since that time, she has successfully campaigned for the adoption of 18 national policy changes, including a commitment from the Department for Transport to invest over £900 million in road safety initiatives. These changes included updates to the Highway Code and ongoing driver education. In 2025, the DfT and DVSA welcomed her policy proposal to include CPR questions in the driving theory test - an initiative that is multifaceted and grounded in three core domains: road safety, education, and public health. This year, as a part of the road safety strategy, the DfT has launched a consultation to mandate 18 new vehicle safety technologies, including autonomous emergency braking- known as Dev’s Law.   

Meera also serves as a Trustee of the road safety charity Brake. She is a qualified Pharmacist and Senior Lecturer in Postgraduate Clinical Pharmacy at De Montfort University, Leicester. Meera continues to work independently in an advisory capacity alongside both the Department for Transport and National Highways. 

Michael Orgill is an expert in ADAS and CAM Verification and Validation (V&V), scenario-based testing, and safety assurance cases. He specialises in quantifying residual risk and assessing the validity of simulated test evidence. Having worked with customers in both industry and government, Michael understands exactly how testbeds interact with the wider CAM and ADAS supply chain, and how credible safety evidence must be packaged and presented. Michael has been Technical Lead on several major verification and validation activities in the UK; he has also authored definitions of practical processes for the CAM safety argumentation lifecycle, and metrics for interoperable multi-modal test correlation. Michael’s academic background in Physics and Statistics. 

For more than twenty years, Dr Nick Reed has worked consistently at the cutting edge of mobility research. In 2019, he created Reed Mobility – an independent expert consultancy on future mobility working across public, private and academic sectors to deliver transport systems that are safe, clean, efficient, ethical and equitable and including projects for the European Commission, the UK Department for Transport, Transport for London, PA Consulting, Mott Macdonald and WSP. In 2021, he was recruited to a three-year part-time role as National Highways' first independent Chief Road Safety Adviser, developing their strategy for eliminating death and serious injury on the strategic road network. He has since been appointed to the Science Advisory Council at the Department for Transport and is a trustee of the Road Safety Trust. 

Dr Lisa Dorn is Associate Professor of Driver Behaviour at Cranfield University and Founder of PsyDrive, human factor specialists delivering research, training and interventions for improved road safety. As Chartered Psychologist and Human Factors specialist, she has authored 70+ peer-reviewed academic papers and edited and authored 17 books on driver behaviour. She has led major EU and UKRI programmes, including the Horizon 2020 MeBeSafe project on behaviour-changing technologies and more recently a four-year programme to investigate behavioural adaptation to vehicle technology. An award-winning road safety expert, Lisa advises government and industry on fleet safety and is currently serving on the BSI expert panel for ISO 39001 to review the international standard for road traffic safety management systems. Lisa also sits on the UK Bus KSI expert panel to improve national bus safety and working with Transport for London and the bus industry on projects concerned with pedal confusion, bridge strikes and improving safety culture. 

Reema Parmar is a Technical Manager at SMMT covering Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAV) regulatory and policy development. 

She contributes to discussions across industry, government and standards bodies, including engagement within international regulatory forums, supporting and facilitating dialogue on the safe deployment and integration of ADAS and ADS in traffic. Her role involves navigating complex regulatory environments to help align evolving technologies with regulatory expectations.

Dave Conway has more than 45 years’ experience working in highways maintenance and construction, the last 25 focusing on management systems and standards. Thanks to his pioneering work in 2013, creating a new Road Traffic Safety Management System for FM Conway, the company became the third in Europe (and 17th worldwide) to achieve certification against the international standard, ISO 39001. This specifies requirements for management systems to help reduce death and serious injuries related to road traffic crashes. 

At FM Conway, he has overseen the introduction of measures including a Professional Drivers Recognition Scheme, mobile phone blocking systems, and the addition of new technologies to the fleet. He also authored and implemented FM Conway’s Fleet Operations Safety Scheme to drive progression beyond the UK FORS standard. Dave is now retired from full-time employment but continues to provide advisory services to FM Conway and other businesses seeking guidance adopting management systems and, particularly, road safety systems. 

Dave is a passionate advocate of ISO 39001 and committed to promoting its adoption by other organisations. His hard work led to him being invited to join the British Standards Institution’s road safety committee, RTS/1 and represent the UK in developing ISO 39002 and 3. In 2017, he was elected chair of that committee. 

In 2023 he stepped in to cover the vacant position of chair of ISO TC241, the ISO technical committee responsible for managing ISO39001 and the ISO39xxx suite of standards and he still works tirelessly to promote the benefits of road safety management systems, representing TC241 on The Unted Nations Road Safety Collaboration (UNRSC) and The ISO Technical Management Board, Joint Technical Committee Group on Management System Standards (ISO TMB/JTCG). 

In December 2025 he was appointed by ISO TC241 as convenor of the working group undertaking the revision of ISO39001.  

Dave won the coveted Kevin Storey Award for Outstanding Commitment to Road Safety, 2021 at the UK Fleet Champions Awards.