The Draft Guide was developed through partial funding provided by the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator’s Heavy Vehicle Safety Initiative Stage 3 to the NRSPP. The proposal was not fully funded resulting in the project occurring in two stages. The Stage 1 was delivered by ARRB where the NRSPP was housed until February 2020.
What is CLOCS-A?
CLOCS-A or Construction Logistics and Community Safety – Australia, is a national good practice approach for managing the risks and impacts associated with a construction project’s on-road transport and logistics activities to community road safety. Once developed it will provide a consistent framework for industry to achieve and has been inspired by the success of the CLOCS Program established in the United Kingdom in reducing road trauma associated with construction logistics. The primary goal of CLOCS-A, is that a similar reduction in lives lost and serious injuries can be achieved locally on our roads in Australia.
Purpose of the document
The purpose of this document is to provide government and industry with a draft practical framework for the management of risks and impacts to community road safety associated with a construction project’s road transport and logistics activities. The draft guide will act as a starting point and is primarily an engineering and policy document, it is based on the Safe System approach to improving road safety.
This document has been developed with input from a range of stakeholders including representatives from government, industry, and the community with the aim to go beyond legal minimums in Australia’s efforts to improve the safety of pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists (collectively known as Vulnerable Road Users (VRU)) around trucks. The ultimate objectives are to:
- Eliminate collisions between heavy vehicles and the community
- Improve efficiencies through fewer vehicle journeys
- Establish a single national standard for industry to meet
- Reduce reputational risk
