ZT 6.1–6.2 – Road Safety

Healthy University Rating System (HURS)

University : Siam University

Country : Thailand

Web Address : https://sustainability.siam.edu

ZT 6 Road Safety Violations including Helmet Use

[(ZT 6.1] Comprehensive Road Safety Measures

Description:

Siam University has a single, compact campus of 78,160 m² on Phetkasem Road, Phasi Charoen, about 500 m from the Bang Wa BTS and MRT stations. Most students and staff arrive by public transport and walk, and only about 95 vehicles (41 motorcycles) enter the campus on a typical day. The Safety Policy of the Healthy University Policy commits the University to a safety management system for all staff, students and the surrounding community, with safety rules promoted to everyone, safety audits and continual improvement.

Student-led campaigns with the traffic police. The Siam University Student Union Committee runs the road-safety plan “COOL DRIVE – sustainable travel” (Toyota White Road Campus Challenge 2025, with ThaiHealth), together with the Traffic Police Division’s Royal Initiative traffic police, the Faculties of Engineering and Nursing and the Office of Student Affairs. It tackles road rage, careless driving and drink-driving through training on five topics, campaigns at freshmen orientation, announcements, posters and online media, student traffic volunteers and outreach to schools and communities, with a budget of THB 31,000 (Tables ZT 6.1.1–6.1.2). A helmet campaign was also held at Freshy Day 2022 (photos attached to the plan).

Rules, education and environment. Vehicle access is controlled by barrier gates with security booths, and helmets and seat belts are compulsory under the Land Traffic Act B.E. 2522. Road safety is also taught in 153-222 Traffic Engineering and 261-434 Occupational Health and Safety Management in Transportation, and Occupational Health and Safety students teach traffic rules in local schools. Pedestrian paths are separated from the road and have lighting, CCTV, ramps and guiding blocks; shuttle buses and free zero-emission vehicles reduce motorcycle trips.

Emergency care. Injured people receive first care at the on-campus Health Center; the COOL DRIVE plan includes Faculty of Nursing training for Royal Initiative traffic police in resuscitation and emergency midwifery, and first aid and basic life support are taught in the Faculties of Medicine and Nursing.

Table ZT 6.1.1 – COOL DRIVE road-safety plan of the Student Union

Source: Student Union Committee plan “ThaiHealth – teens care about safe road use”, Toyota White Road Campus Challenge 2025 (attached PDF). Project advisor: Director of the Office of Student Affairs.

Table ZT 6.1.2 – COOL DRIVE targets, evaluation and budget

Indicators 1–4: awareness and implementation targets; the other four rows: how success is evaluated. Results to be filled from the activity reports.

Budget for the four-month plan, from the attached plan.

Table ZT 6.1.3 – HURS road-safety measures at Siam University

Green: in place. Orange: in place or partly in place; evidence to be added. “Photos” refers to the numbered sections above; “TR 5.x” to the UI GreenMetric 2026 Transportation evidence files.

Table ZT 6.1.4 – Measures counted for the level

The HURS description of “4 Items or More” mentions both preventive policies and emergency management protocols, so the traffic-injury procedure (item 4) is the most useful document to add.

Evidence to attach:

• Student Union road-safety plan COOL DRIVE (Toyota White Road Campus Challenge 2025) and activity reports.

• Healthy University Policy – Safety Policy: https://sustainability.siam.edu/vision-mission-and-policies-for-sustainable-future/; Sustainability Report 2025–2026, pp. 9, 28, 50: https://sustainability.siam.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/SDG_report_2025_2026.pdf

• SDG 3 page (road-safety project, 20 May 2026): https://sustainability.siam.edu/goal-3/

• SDG Report 2024–2025, pp. 45 (evacuation drill) and 124 (district committee): https://sustainability.siam.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/SDG-report-2024-2025.pdf

• UI GreenMetric 2026 Transportation evidence TR 5.4, 5.13, 5.14, 5.15, 5.16 and 5.18 (attached PDFs).

• SDG curriculum mapping 2569 – 153-222, 261-434, 260-312, 261-410, 170-347; Faculty of Nursing article on motorcycle-accident prevention in youth: https://e-research.siam.edu/kb/road-traffic-accident/

• University rule on helmets and seat belts, gate-check records, traffic-injury procedure and first-aid training records.

[ZT 6.2] Compliance with Helmet Use Among Motorcyclists

Description:

Helmet use is measured by direct observation at the vehicle gates and motorcycle parking areas, as HURS recommends, checked against gate CCTV footage. Because only about 41 motorcycles enter the campus on a typical day, every motorcycle passing during the observation sessions is counted rather than a sample (Table ZT 6.2.1). The observers will be student traffic volunteers trained in the Student Union’s COOL DRIVE programme, working with Occupational Health and Safety students and security staff, and the results feed the University’s traffic report system. The 2026 result is the baseline for later years.

Initiatives to encourage helmet use. Helmets are compulsory under the Land Traffic Act; a helmet campaign was held at freshmen orientation (Freshy Day 2022), and the Student Union’s COOL DRIVE plan adds training, campaigns and student traffic volunteers working with the traffic police (Table ZT 6.2.3). Their effect will be seen by comparing the helmet-use rate year by year and by gate.

Table ZT 6.2.1 – Observation protocol

Table ZT 6.2.3 – Initiatives that encourage helmet use

Sources: COOL DRIVE plan; helmet campaign photographs (Freshy Day 2022); Land Traffic Act B.E. 2522; TR 5.13–5.15.

Evidence to attach:

• Helmet observation tally sheets or CCTV summary and schedule.

• Helmet campaign and COOL DRIVE photographs with dates.

• Campus map: https://ico.siam.edu/campus-map; motorcycles per day – UI GreenMetric 2026, TR 5.4.

PDF Attachments

• Campus Challenge 2025 (PDF)