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Safe and Compliant Road Freight

Peter Wells, Director, Safety and Compliance

Balancing productivity, safety & asset

Road Safety

Asset Management

Economic Productivity

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NSW Freight Task

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Commodity movement volume growth 2011-2031

NSW Freight Task

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Freight mode share for selected commodities 2011

Freight task across NSW

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Current and forecast freight task on key corridors

Fatalities from Heavy Truck Crashes

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Compliance and Enforcement

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Understanding Chain of Responsibility

You must not encourage, reward or provide an

incentive for the driver or other party in the supply chain to break any road

transport laws. Speeding

Fatigue

Loading

Mass

Dimension

(Maintenance)

Are you a link in the chain?

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Party Mass Dimension Loading Speed Fatigue

Prime contractor

Employer

Operator

Consignor

Loading Manager & Loader

Unloader

Packer

Scheduler

Consignee Conduct that may cause or contribute to a breach

Chain of responsibility in practice

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The road to compliance maturity

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Assess and manage the risk

Business practices:

• Risk identification – What could happen?

• Risk assessment – What is the likelihood it may happen?

• Risk management – What can we do about it, how can it be prevented?

• Risk review – What has happened? What else could occur? Do we need to change what we do?

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Take ‘all reasonable steps'

‘Reasonable steps’ defence:

• did not know; and

• could not reasonably have been expected to know.

The proof:

• what was done; and

• what was a reasonable expectation of what should have been done?

A holistic approach to

regulatory obligations

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Work Health & Safety

legislation

HVNL & other road transport

law

Safety Management

System

Environment & Heritage legislation

Chain of Responsibility obligations

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Speeding Fatigue Loading

Mass Dimension (Maintenance)

ALL: ‘What form of record-keeping do we maintain to document our actions?’

Managing your obligations

Possible considerations

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SPEED: ‘How do my activities impact on the time available for drivers to: do pre-trip check; travel to pick-up or delivery point; ensure correct loading; take prescribed breaks; cope with traffic contingencies; meet deadlines?’

LOADING: ‘Have we communicated our need for appropriate methods of load restraint to our suppliers? What assurances of compliance have we received?’

MASS: ‘How do we know the loads we receive are legal? Have we considered the loads that leave our site? ’

DIMENSION: ‘How do we determine if an oversize load is legal? Have we sighted the permit?

FATIGUE: ‘What contingencies do we have in place to respond to a driver being delayed? Do we know the driver is compliant with work and rest hour limits?’

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CollaborationAn essential part of effective CoR management

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