EqOP-WS-05-04
Equitable Occupant Protection Workshop 5 - Introduction and Recap

Workshop on equitable occupant protection addressing frontal impact safety. The document summarizes consensus from the 2025 Graz workshop on equity issues in frontal crashes, including higher injury risks for females in lower-speed crashes and at specific injury severity levels, age-dependent fatality risk variations, and injury pattern differences across body regions. Hypotheses for equity issues include occupant physiological characteristics, seatbelt and seat interaction, airbag interaction, and varying injury tolerances with age and sex. The Tokyo workshop aims to develop conceptual ideas for assessing robustness of occupant protection across human and crash-condition variability, define robustness, identify regulatory concepts to address equity issues, establish a roadmap of regulatory solutions, and create an action plan for highest-priority issues.

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