Are you aware of how
to keep your drivers safe
and how to manage risk
in the mobile office?
WORDS BY DANIEL BRAID AND AUSTROADS
W
ork health and safety legislation in
Australia and New Zealand clearly defines
vehicles as a workplace. Vehicle use in
road traffic is by far the most significant contributor
to work-related traumatic injury so it’s important
your organisation is aware of the obligation you
have to keeping your employees safe.
In consultation with Safe Work Australia,
Austroads has initiated a project to reduce
work-related road trauma and contribute to best
practice road safety management by:
• fostering a strategic partnership between WHS
and RTS authorities, and
• raising awareness of WHS duties in road
transport.
This report outlines the “learning by doing”
approach taken in the project – meaning that
the best way to promote change is to put it into
practice. The report includes an engagement
strategy to support ongoing work in the area and
is itself supported by a communications plan and
evaluation plan.
The draft work health and safety guide produced
through this project closes a gap in the provision
of work health and safety guidance on managing
vehicle use in road traffic. Meanwhile the goal
of the engagement strategy is “to help sustain
dialogue amongst national stakeholders through
the remainder of the national road safety, and
workplace health and safety, strategies in Australia
and New Zealand, and ensure work-related
road safety is a principal focus of each of these
strategies through to 2030.”
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