This Improving Fleet Safety – Guidance Material report provides guidance material for the transition to best practice and accompanies the Improving Fleet Safety Current Approaches and Best Practice Guidelines report. Both reports were prepared by the Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety Queensland as part of Austroads project SS1026 Review of Safety Practices Used by Commercial Vehicle Purchasers.
The aims of this Improving Fleet Safety – Guidance Material project were to undertake a review and evaluation of the safety practices including, but not limited to, purchasing, safety programs, driver training and safety monitoring used by enterprises using vehicles for commercial purposes. This covers vehicles ranging from passenger cars, to light commercial vehicles through to heavy vehicles; and develop best practice safety guidelines for enterprises and fleet managers including developing guidance material to assist fleet operators manage the transition to best practice