The Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) Self-Assessment Tool consists of a list of questions designed to provide managers information to assess their programs, policies, and procedures against many of the recommended practices in use today. The self-assessment tool is intended to be a group exercise and should be conducted with transportation safety stakeholder representatives. The HSIP Self-Assessment Tool consists of five primary assessment areas:

• Leadership
• Administration
• Planning
• Implementation
• Evaluation

Self-assessment scores are subjectively established by the self-assessment group. Questions are scored from 0 to 15 considering a five-phase adoption process: initiation; development; execution; evaluation; and integration. After completing the self-assessment, teams should calculate scores of individual questions, and examine the scores for each of the five primary assessment areas. Agencies should use the results to develop an action plan, communicate the findings and actions, and develop a schedule to update self-assessment.