NRSPP Monthly Bulletin – March 2022 – No. 88

Welcome to the latest newsletter from the National Road Safety Partnership Program (NRSPP). NRSPP is a government-supported, industry-led collaborative network which aims to support Australian businesses and organisations to develop a positive road safety culture and help protect their workers and the public, not only during work hours but also when staff are ‘off-duty’.

This Edition Will Cover

  • NRSPP Achievements
  • Welcome to Independent Chair of NRSPP, Professor Jude Charlton and Thanks to Outgoing Professor Barry Watson
  • NRSPP Monthly Focus
  • NRSPP Case Study: McColl’s Transport
  • Blog: ‘Complex environments: A different take on vehicles as a workplace
  • NRSPP News
  • Resources
  • Social Media
  • Useful Links
  • Events

NRSPP Achievements March 2022

  • In 2021 an Evaluation of NRSPP was conducted and has now been released. The evaluation findings helped form the basis for the success Prince Michael International Road Safety Award. 

  • The NRSPP Utilities Forum Executive met on the 24 February and confirmed the 2022 Forum will go ahead which will be planned for October/November in Melbourne hosted by APA.

  • On 23 February the Construction Logistics and Community Safety Australia (CLOCS-A) project formerly commenced with a virtual planning workshop held. Over 67 diverse stakeholders attended, from regulators, major projects, contractors, transport companies, community groups, local government, vulnerable road user associations, industry associations and technology providers.

    • The workshop outlined the project plan, deliverables, timeline and what the proposed standard and governance structure may look like.

    • Gabby O’Neil, Head of the Commonwealth’s Office of Road Safety outlined how CLOCS-A aligns into the new National Road Safety Strategy 2021-2030.

    •  Technical Group leaders for vehicle safety; drier safety; logistics and planning; and communications and advocacy outlined their scope, work plan and delivery to support the CLOCS-A adaption

    • CLOCS-A project is funded by the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator’s Heavy Vehicle Safety Initiative, supported by the Federal Government.

    • See CLOCS-A Workshop summary and PPT

  • Honours project commences at Monash University with an engineer and psychology students to explore indirect/direct vision assessment framework for heavy vehicles. 

  • NRSPP’s Monash Intern Seun Adenipekin concludes his summer internship, over the coming months you will see his work released such as Q&As looking at EcoSafe Driving, Drive in Drive out and a number of Quick Facts and an Ecosafe Tool Box Talk.

  • NRSPP Tool Box Talk Alcohol and other Drugs was updated in collaboration with Jerome Carslake (NRSPP), Jennifer Rivera-Gonzalez (MUARC),
    Tim Roberts (FleetStrategy) Ruby Athanas and Kyla Fantin (NRSPP Swinburne Interns 2021/22).

  • Research peer reviewed and completed for Car Park Safety Organisational Campaign and the design stage began.

  • NRSPP’s activities considerably recognised in TMAA Detours February 2022 Magazine.

  • Re:act road safety program for 2022 kicks off with the theme Driving Safer Vehicle Choices For Young Australians.