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Overview of Package

Heavy vehicle driving is in nature a solitary activity, with drivers often experiencing loneliness, boredom, and declining vigilance, leading them to engage in secondary tasks. Driver distraction can be defined as something that can occur in situations where the driver allocates resources to a non-safety critical activity. It has been classified as vehicle-external or vehicle internal distraction. This Toolbox Talk focuses on driver distraction.

Toolbox Talks are an effective and cost-efficient way to communicate information and knowledge about driving safety, health and safety, and operational issues within a workplace. A Toolbox Talks should ideally take approximately 15-20 minutes. This Toolbox Talks Package is designed to provide Team Leaders/Managers and Facilitators with the required resources and information to conduct a toolbox safety talk about dangers of mobile phone use when while driving, to a group of employees within the organisation.

The package contains:

  • A generic overview of Toolbox Talk Discussion and how it can be applied to work driving safety, including a step by step process to assist team leaders/managers and facilitators to lead a Toolbox Talk discussion.

    • Aid for the promotion of discussion

    • Topic background information and fact sheet

    • Discussion prompt sheet

    • Participant attendance record sheet

    • Participant self-assessment sheet

    • Discussion review sheet

    • Distraction risks when driving poster

    • Supporting PowerPoint Slides

    • Distraction risks when driving video

Author Acknowledgement

This Toolbox Talk has been developed in collaboration with Jerome Carslake (NRSPP), Jennifer Rivera-Gonzalez (MUARC), Kyla Fantin (NRSPP Swinburne Intern 2021/22), Ruby Athanas (NRSPP Swinburne Intern 2021/22),  Tim Roberts (FleetStrategy).

Toolbox Talks Branding, marketing and promotional videos were completed by the Swinburne Design Bureau: Dr Shivani Tyagi (Communication Design Lecturer Swinburne and Director of Design Bureau), Kai Djeng (videos and editing), Emelia Cox (videos and editing), Lachlan Tobin (marketing and communications), Lauren Gualano (branding and logo design).

Toolbox Talks Steering Group includes: James Zarb (Viva Energy), Craig Beikoff (BINGO Industries), Jim Sarkis (BINGO Industries), Mark Noble (Holcim), Daniel Brain (Toll Group), Adam Ritzinger (Toll Group), Peter Johansson (Zurich), Steve Power (Heavy Vehicle Industry Australia), Mike Mulligan (Qube).

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