Ensuring Safety, Protecting Lives

Our Board Chairman's Message

As Chairman of the Board of the National Road Safety Authority (NRSA), I take this opportunity to reaffirm our unwavering dedication to the Authority’s core mandate which is safeguarding lives and ensuring safer roads for all through strategic interventions, effective regulation, and sustained public education.

In an era of rapid motorization, urban expansion, and evolving transport dynamics, the NRSA continues to lead with foresight and resilience. We remain committed to developing and implementing evidence-based road safety policies that respond to current challenges while anticipating future risks. Through strong institutional governance, innovation, and partnerships, the Authority is driving initiatives that seek not only to prevent crashes but also to transform attitudes and behaviors on our roads.

Our Board remains actively engaged in guiding these national efforts — providing strategic direction, ensuring accountability, and promoting collaboration among government agencies, private sector actors, civil society organizations, and local communities. We recognize that road safety is a shared responsibility and that sustainable progress can only be achieved when every stakeholder plays their part with diligence and integrity.

We are confident that through continuous education, enforcement, and engineering improvements, supported by meaningful stakeholder engagement, Ghana can significantly reduce road traffic fatalities and create a safer, more efficient transportation system.

Together, let us stay the course that is driven by purpose, strengthened by partnership, and united by responsibility as we work toward a future where every journey begins and ends safely.

ABOUT US

The National Road Safety Authority (NRSA) is the lead agency for road safety management in Ghana under the Ministry of Transport. It was established by the NRSA Act, 2019 (Act 993) to develop and promote road safety, to coordinate and regulate activities, procedures and standards related to road safety and to provide for related matters.

The Act has since August 2, 2019, received presidential assent and repeals the NRSC Act, 1999 (Act 567) that established the National Road Safety Commission. In addition to the existing mandate under the Commission of promoting best road safety practices among road users and coordinating road safety activities, the NRSA Act provides for an enhanced mandate where the Authority is now empowered to regulate, ensure implementation and enforcement of road safety standards and procedures.

With regards to the new Act, Act 2019 (Acts 993) the National Road Safety Authority is mandated to issue compliance notices to institutions or organizations who breach road safety standards.

OBJECT OF THE AUTHORITY

The Object of the Authority is to reduce the incidence of road traffic crashes, fatalities and injuries through the:

• Promotion of road safety
• Development and coordination of policies in relation to road safety
• Implementation and enforcement of standards for road safety

FUNCTIONS OF THE NRSA

The Key functions of the Authority under the Act 993 include the following:

• Nationwide road safety education, campaigns and publicity.
• Ensure the implementation and enforcement of road safety standards and procedures in addition to the earlier mandate of promoting best road safety practices among road users and coordinating road safety activities.
• Develop a long-term plan for the promotion of road safety and the reduction of road traffic crashes, fatalities and injuries and collaborate with the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority, road agencies, enforcement agencies, crash response agencies and road transport service providers to implement the plan.
• Collaborate with other relevant agencies to co-ordinate, monitor and evaluate road safety activities, programmes and strategies.
• Issue notices in the form of directives, procedures or cautions to persons to provide or correct irregularity in procedures, standards, practices and operations in order to prevent or minimize road traffic crashes, fatalities and injuries.
• Receive complaints and investigate violations of road safety standards, Regulations and best practices and advise the Minister on the measures required to prevent or minimize road safety risks.
• Ensure institutional compliance with procedures and standards related to road safety.
• Collaborate with the Ghana Education Service and other relevant bodies to develop road safety education as part of the curriculum for pre-tertiary level schools and colleges of education.
• Collaborate with the Building and Road Research Institute, the Ghana Standards Authority and other bodies with relevant knowledge and expertise in road safety to develop standards for road safety equipment and ensure compliance.
• Regulate road transport and related services.