Hanson has operations and vehicles in all Australian states. This paper focuses on what Hanson has done and is doing to improve the safety of its road fleet, the drivers of those vehicles and the general public as the Hanson vehicles and drivers interact with the general population either on roads or sites. The Hanson operation also includes the Hymix plants and fleet. This paper looks briefly at various safety programs and initiatives that relate to road transport and well as general business and management procedures that relate to road transport. Fleet safety to Hanson means providing our drivers with properly specified equipment capable of performing the task asked of it, maintaining that equipment to a safe standard and providing drivers and the people that influence them with the necessary knowledge, awareness and training to safely perform their duties and return home safely

What does fleet safety mean to Hanson?

 Hanson has operations and vehicles in all Australian states. This paper focuses on what Hanson has done and is doing to improve the safety of its road fleet, the drivers of those vehicles and the general public as the Hanson vehicles and drivers interact with the general population either on roads or sites.

 The Hanson operation also includes the Hymix plants and fleet.

 This paper looks briefly at various safety programs and initiatives that relate to road transport and well as general business and management procedures that relate to road transport.

 Fleet safety to Hanson means providing our drivers with properly specified equipment capable of performing the task asked of it, maintaining that equipment to a safe standard and providing drivers and the people that influence them with the necessary knowledge, awareness and training to safely perform their duties and return home safely.

Heavy Fleet

 The Hanson heavy vehicle fleet in Australia comprises some 370 tippers, 20 tankers and 1180 agitators. The tipper fleet includes rigid trucks, truck and dog combinations, semi-trailers, B doubles and pocket road trains. The agitator fleet includes mini trucks, 3 axle rigid trucks, 4 axle rigid trucks and semi-trailers.

The Hanson fleet includes 1060 company trucks and over 500 contracted owner drivers. This fleet is augmented by use of casual sub-contractors during peak demand.

Hanson has 260 concrete plants and 56 quarries in Australia with operations in every state. Deliveries are made to a wide range of sites ranging from private customers own yards, council work, road construction sites, high rise developments, farms, dam sites to mine sites – including underground mines.

The Hanson approach to heavy vehicle fleet safety is aligned to the Chain of Responsibility regulations.

Chain of Responsibility

CoR legislation deals with 4 main areas of road transport:

  • Fatigue management
  • Mass, dimension and load restraint
  • Speeding compliance
  • Dangerous goods

 Hanson has developed a CoR management manual which deals with the responsibilities and duties of all persons who have a role in the Chain of Responsibility.

We have also been heavily involved in producing guidelines for the industry via the CCAA to raise awareness of the CoR regulations and what minimum actions member companies should be taking.

Hanson has recently rolled out a CoR training and awareness program across all operations. In NSW this involved a Compliance Manager visiting each site and training drivers, supervisors, batchers, weighbridge operators, sales loader drivers, allocators, schedulers and site managers on the CoR requirements, their responsibilities and duties. This program highlighted to each person what role they play in the CoR and what responsible steps they must take to ensure compliance. Equally importantly the program also addressed what each of the persons cannot do or what they cannot instruct another person to do.

This program was recently awarded an Industry Award at the recent NSW Environment, Health & Safety Awards night held by Cement Concrete and Aggregates Australia

Hanson has offered all CCAA members free access to this training program including copies of all presentations and supporting documentation.

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