Ten Years with Passive Safety - a Manufacturer's View

Kim H. Heglund has been involved with the designing, developing, testing and producing passively safe traffic masts since early 1990. He is based in Norway outside Oslo. Since the Scandinavian countries were forerunners in passive safety, Kim H. Heglund had the advantage of early involvement in the development of Scandinavian and more recently European standards. He was a member of the so called "Nordic Working group" in the late 1990's, the first working group to start looking at how to implement the (European) EN 12767 approved masts into the road network. He has later participated in several national and international working groups connected to passive safety. He gave the (British) Highways Agency advice when TA89/04 was originally drawn up and more recently provided advice for the forthcoming British guidelines in their National Annex to BS EN 12767. The following article will be published in the United Kingdom on 21 May 2008 in the book 'Safer Roadsides - A Handbook for Engineers' edited by David Milne and published by The Highway magazine TEC. The ACRS thanks Kim Heglund for making his article available to the Journal.