Who is Church of Christ Queensland?
Churches of Christ in Queensland (CofCQ) is a group of mainstream Christian churches which has been an active part of the Queensland community for over 130 years. It has a significant presence within Queensland, Victoria and Vanuatu with over 300 services in more than 100 communities, touching tens of thousands of lives each year.
What sector does Church of Christ Queensland operate within?
CofCQ operates within the community care and support sector as a church-managed, not-for-profit organisation.
What size is Church of Christ Queensland’s fleet or the number of staff who generate your transport task?
CofCQ has a fleet of around 585 fleet assets. The majority of these are sedans and derivatives, supplemented with a number of buses and trailers and also commercial vehicles. The fleet is managed by myself, a Senior Fleet officer and a Fleet/Insurance officer.
Describe what road safety means to your Church of Christ Queensland?
CofCQ has over 3,300 staff and around 1,500 volunteers, impacting and uplifting lives in community care, foster care, aged care, retirement living, affordable housing, residential youth, and chaplaincy support ranging from community centres to men’s sheds to farmers and even mining.
There are over 1,700 aged care residents, 1,000 retirement living residents, 5,800 home and community care clients, nearly 1,500 affordable housing tenancies, and 3,400 children youth and family clients.
Churches of Christ in Queensland's Contributions to the NRSPP & Points of Contact
- Program Partners
- Working Group – Grey Fleet
- Richard Schuster (Departed)Senior Fleet ManagerCommencement Date: 17/10/2017Sector: Not-for-Profitwww.cofc.com.au/
Why become a Program Partner?
To support such a diverse range of services in over 100 locations, staff and volunteers travelled over 10,752,000 km last financial year, many of those on rural roads. This represents a significant risk. Further, staff and volunteers use private vehicles for work purposes, constituting an additional ‘grey fleet’ risk.
In common with many other care-based organisations, staff may prioritise client and resident care over travel. As a result, the opportunity exists to improve driver safety. Fleet are implementing a number of safety interventions, including:
- Changing vehicle insurer to a supplier that will partner with CofCQ to reduce crashes and incidents.
- Tool Box talks at all major locations with vehicles.
- Roll out an online driver safety programme to all drivers, including family members who drive a Salary Sacrifice vehicle.
- Improve reporting on crashes/incidents/infringements to key levels of the organisation.
- Continually review the safety standard/options/policy when procuring vehicles
- Implement a Grey Fleet policy and procedures and practices to support that policy.
What actions could your organisation do to support road safety through the NRSPP & by when?
1. Support the development of the Grey Fleet working group and Grey Fleet Guide. 2017/18 2. Involvement in NRSPP QBE Grey Fleet trials. Oct 17-May 18 3. Participation in smartphone-based telematics safety trial if launched Delivered 4. Develop case study that explores CofCQ approach to there is no trade-off between safety and the environment. March 18 5. Webinar expanding on case study Placed on Hold Supporting actions delivered by Church of Christ Queensland?
- NRSPP and QBE with several other corporate and government organisations held a trial exploring Grey Fleet use and safety, CoCQ was one of the partners that decided to join the research trial. Other partners included Commonwealth Bank of Australia, NSW State Insurance Regulatory Authority (SIRA), Sanofi and Vodafone.
- Developed with NRSPP the Case Study Churches Of Christ In Queensland: Safety, Sustainability And The Business Case For Building A Road Safety Culture which was released March 2018
- Joined NRSPP for its Safe Work Australia Sponsored Grey Fleet Video Panel – a significant risk with unique challenges
- NRSPP facilitates an Interactive Conversation on the Realities of Grey Fleet Management at AfMA 2019
- Richard Schuster (Departed)Senior Fleet Manager
CoCQ through Richard Schuster joined the NRSPP Grey Fleet Working Group. He attended the Qld Workshop hosted by Sanofi to help provide input from the regulator but also as an employer who has grey fleet on the development of a practical guide. The Working Group supporting activities included:
- CoCQ was also a partner in the QBE Insurance Box Grey Fleet trial supplying 50 vehicles
- CoCQ also joined NRSPP for its Safe Work Australia Sponsored Grey Fleet Video Panel – a significant risk with unique challenges
- NRSPP facilitates an Interactive Conversation on the Realities of Grey Fleet Management at AfMA 2019