Welcome to the latest newsletter from the National Road Safety Partnership Program (NRSPP). NRSPP is a government-supported, industry-led collaborative network which aims to support Australian businesses and organisations to develop a positive road safety culture and help protect their workers and the public, not only during work hours but also when staff are ‘off-duty’.

This Edition Will Cover

• NRSPP Achievements
• NRSPP’s First Heavy Vehicle Toolbox Talk is Out Now!
• Monthly Feature: NRSPP Organisational Campaign: Car Park Safety
• NRSPP Monthly Focus
• Blog: Hidden Dangers: Don’t Park Safety When You Park Your Vehicle
• NRSPP News
• Social Media
• NRSPP Resources
• Events

NRSPP Monthly Achievements May 2022

• NRSPP released its fourth organisational road safety campaign on Car Park Road Safety in time for National Road Safety Week. So if you have nothing planned for 15-20 May to engage your workers on road safety—check out the campaign.

• NRSPP held two webinars during April which included and featured: 

  • The Secret Road Safety Ingredient That Flies Under The Radar where Sonja Mackay provides the science behind how breathing relates to safe driver and simple tools to create new habits, “I put the seatbelt on and take three deep breaths.”

  • Systems Thinking In Action: A Tool To Optimise Learnings In Work-Related Driving Incidents with Associate Professor Sharon Newnam, consider for incentive to listen, “What you look for is what you find, where as what you find is what you fix.”

• Commencing 5 May, NRSPP launched its first of 22 Heavy Vehicle Toolbox Talk (HVTBT) on Driver Distraction. Each month the NRSPP will release a collaborative HVTBT which includes a video summarising the facts and drawing on driver interviews—drivers talking to drivers. 

• The NRSPP Steering Committee met on the 27 April, some key outcomes:

  • Review of the NRSPP Strategic Plan for 2023–25 which included a nuancing of the NRSPP vision, development of two new objectives, a plan on a page and performance measures. A key action being exploring future business and delivery models for NRSPP to help grow the program and its sustainability.

  • Approval of the fourth NRSPP organisational road safety on Car Park Safety which was developed and presented by Kyla Fantin and Ruby Athanas.

  • Dr Sarah Jones following her deep dive analysis of data, presented Covid 19, Road Freight and Safety—Emerging Impacts and Predictions.

  • Confirmation of the Directors and Officers Course: Safe Workers Behind the Wheel, an NRSPP initiative in collaboration with Flinders, Griffith and Monash Universities funded by Zurich Insurance.  The seven-unit online course will commence mid-October with one 90 minute unit a month. Griffith University has commissioned a Masters student to evaluate the course.

• CLOCS-A achieved a number of deliverables:

  • Kevin Webster was appointed the Logistics and Planning Masters student from Swinburne University supporting the CLOCS-A Technical Group 3. 

  • Lime and McConnell Dowell have signed onto the CLOCS-A Memorandum of Understanding.

  • Technical Group 5: Consolidation commenced