Overview of Package

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 Talk should ideally, take approximately 15-20 minutes. This Toolbox Talk Package is designed to provide Team Leaders/Managers and Facilitators with the required resources and information to conduct a toolbox safety talk about anger and its dangers on the road, to a group of employees within the organisation.

The package contains:

A Generic Overview of Toolbox Talk Discussion including a step-by-step process to assist team leaders/managers and facilitators to lead a Toolbox Talk discussion

  1. Aid for the promotion of discussion
  2. Topic background information and fact sheet
  3. Discussion prompt sheet
  4. Participant attendance record sheet
  5. Participant self-assessment sheet
  6. Discussion review sheet
  7. Drive Well and Driver Well-being poster
  8. Supporting PowerPoint slides
  9. Drive Well and Driver Wellbeing Link (access video here or contact NRSPP to download)

 

Author Acknowledgement

This Toolbox Talk has been developed in collaboration with Jerome Carslake (NRSPP), Jennifer Rivera-Gonzalez (MUARC), Khyati Chandarana (NRSPP Swinburne Intern 2022/23),  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), Amanda Wang (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).

References

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  3. A. N. Stephens, S. Newnam and K. L. Young, “Preliminary evidence of the efficacy of the Reducing Aggressive Driving (RAD) program,” Journal of Safety research, vol. 82, 2022.
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  5. A. Stephens, “Anger and aggressive driving all the rage on our roads,” 2022.
  6. National Road Safety Partnership Program, “Heavy Vehicle Toolbox Talk: Healthy Eating,” 2022.
  7. Austroads, “Vehicles as a Workplace: Work Health and Safety Guide,” 2022.
  8. National Road Safety PartnershipProgram, “Heavy Vehicle Toolbox Talk: Interactions With Other Road Users,” 2023.
  9. National Road Safety Partnership Program, “We Drive The Way We Live – Insights Into Safer Driving For Work,” 2020.
  10. National Road Safety Partnership Program, “Travel time. Your time (aggressive driving),” 2020.
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  13. A. Batson, S. Newnam and S. Koppel, “Health, safety, and wellbeing interventions in the workplace, and how they may assist ageing heavy vehicle drivers: A meta-review,” Safety Science, vol. 150, p. 105676, 2022.

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