🎓 SOLOSAR Regulatory & Technical Training

Understand – Select – Install – Manage Sustainably

Road restraint systems are safety-critical infrastructure. Their selection, installation and maintenance directly involve the responsibilities of road authorities, specifiers, asset managers and installation contractors.

With evolving standards, regulatory requirements, increasingly demanding site conditions, ageing road infrastructure and growing environmental challenges, professionals need a sound understanding of both the technical and operational aspects of road restraint systems.

SOLOSAR provides specialist training in road restraint systems, designed for professionals responsible for specifying, selecting, installing, inspecting, maintaining or managing these safety systems.

Training sessions are delivered by Patrick ASIMUS, a specialist in road restraint systems, EN 1317 standards and the regulatory framework applicable to road safety equipment.

🎯 Who is the training for?

SOLOSAR training courses are particularly suitable for:

• road restraint system installation contractors and installation teams;
• site managers and works supervisors;
• road authority technical departments;
• national and regional road operators;
• local authorities and municipalities;
• mayors, elected officials and technical managers;
• road network and infrastructure managers;
• road maintenance teams;
• contracting authorities and engineering consultants;
• designers and technical engineering departments;
• asset management and road safety professionals.

Each training session is adapted to the participants’ level of experience, responsibilities and operational requirements.

🧠 Training focused on decision-making and field application

The objective is not simply to understand a standard.

Participants learn how to interpret the performance of a road restraint system, select an appropriate solution for a specific situation, identify risks associated with incorrect design or installation and make better-informed technical decisions in the field.

The training also improves communication between the various stakeholders involved in a road restraint system project:

road authority – designer – engineering consultant – manufacturer – supplier – installation contractor – road operator.

This approach helps reduce specification errors, installation defects, unnecessary remedial works, incompatibilities between systems and avoidable maintenance operations.

🛠️ A practical and operational approach

SOLOSAR training is based on situations encountered on real roads and construction sites.

Depending on the objectives of the session, the training combines:

• regulatory and technical guidance;
• practical field experience;
• real-life case studies;
• analysis of actual road configurations;
• construction-site photographs and videos;
• identification of good and poor installation practices;
• discussion of participants’ own technical challenges.

Installation contractors can also benefit from courses incorporating a practical approach to the installation and inspection of road restraint systems.

🌱 Road safety and environmental challenges

Modern road restraint system management can no longer be separated from environmental considerations.

Sound technical decisions can help:

• extend the service life of road safety equipment;
• favour repair where technically appropriate;
• avoid premature replacement of existing systems;
• reduce unnecessary consumption of raw materials;
• optimise the quantity of materials installed;
• reduce transport requirements and repeated site interventions;
• improve asset identification and traceability;
• progressively integrate available environmental product data into decision-making;
• consider the life cycle of road restraint systems when planning maintenance and investment.

The objective is therefore no longer simply to install a compliant product.

It is to achieve the appropriate level of safety, in the right location, using a technically suitable, durable and proportionate solution.

🔄 Better management of road infrastructure assets

For road authorities and local authorities, road restraint systems represent a significant infrastructure asset, often comprising several generations of products installed over many years.

Training helps technical teams make better-informed decisions regarding:

• existing safety barriers and restraint systems;
• repair or replacement requirements;
• compatibility between different systems and components;
• inspection and maintenance strategies;
• equipment identification and traceability;
• long-term investment and asset-management decisions.

This approach supports the transition from a simple replacement strategy to structured technical and sustainable road asset management.

🧩 Training tailored to your organisation

An installation contractor does not face the same challenges as a national road authority, municipality or local road network manager.

SOLOSAR therefore adapts each training session according to:

• the participants’ professional profiles;
• their experience and technical knowledge;
• the types of restraint systems they work with;
• the road networks they manage or maintain;
• operational issues identified before the training;
• the organisation’s technical and strategic objectives.

Participants may also submit their own technical cases before the course so that relevant examples can be incorporated into the session.

📅 Practical information

• Typical duration: 1 day – 7 hours
• Format: face-to-face training
• Organisation: in-company or multi-company sessions
• Recommended group size: 8 to 15 participants
• Level: adapted to participants’ experience
• Location: customer premises or SOLOSAR facilities, depending on the selected format

More comprehensive formats combining regulatory, technical and practical installation training can also be organised.

📘 Dedicated training documentation

A detailed training programme, learning objectives, training methods and available formats are provided in our dedicated SOLOSAR Road Restraint Systems Training Programme.

Download the SOLOSAR training programme

✅ Better decisions. Better installation. Better asset management.

The performance of a road restraint system does not depend on the product alone.

It depends on the consistency between:

the risk to be addressed, the selected system, its positioning, installation quality, maintenance strategy and service life.

SOLOSAR training provides professionals with the technical knowledge and methods required to make safer, more consistent and more sustainable decisions throughout the life cycle of road restraint systems.

Would you like to train your teams?

Contact SOLOSAR to define a training programme tailored to your organisation and operational requirements.