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
- NRSPP’s Fitness For Duty Heavy Vehicle Toolbox Talk is Out Now!
- NRSPP Monthly Focus
- Monthly Features:
Ecolab – Technology, Data And Direct Coaching: A Powerful Combination In Improving Safe Driving Behaviour - ARSC2022
- NRSPP Best Paper with Implications for Workplace Road Safety
- NRSPP News
- Social Media
- HV TBT Snippets
- NRSPP Resources
- Events
NRSPP Monthly Achievements October 2022
- NRSPP delivered its ninth webinar, Job At Hand: Practical Ways To Stay Focused (And Safe) Behind The Wheel – NRSPP Australia for the year featuring Black Dog speaker David Westgate. In the webinar, we explored managing how autonomous workers on the road can manage that inner voice.
- Heavy Vehicle Toolbox Talks (HVTBT) October release features Fitness for Duty, the supporting video features drivers from Qube, Alex Fraser and Toll.
- National Bulk Tanker Association held Bulk Tanker Day in Melbourne on 2 September which featured a panel session including NRSPP Director Jerome Carslake and joined Naomi Frauenfelder of Healthy Heads Trucks and Sheds and Keith Govias of Gallagher Workplace Risk. The panel session provided attendees insights into what has changed in 12 months since Bulk Tanker Day 2021.
- Roads Australia Road Worker Working Group who have agreed to become part of the NRSPP Organisational Road Safety Campaign for 2023. The development of the campaign has now commenced and will be released as part of 2023 National Road Safety Week, the team includes:
- Project Leads: Grace Harries and Manal Rizwan – NRSPP Swinburne
Communications and Design interns for 2022/23 - Industry Peer Reviewers: Roads Australia, Traffic Management Association of
Australia and Transurban - Government contributors: Main Roads and TMR
- Design and Communications: SenseMap, Swinburne University Bureau and
International Road Safety Awards
- Project Leads: Grace Harries and Manal Rizwan – NRSPP Swinburne
- The Directors and Officers Course: Safe Mobility Systems Corporate Governance and Responsibilities update:
- The virtual workshop course is a collaboration between Flinders, Griffith and Monash Universities sponsored
by Zurich Insurance. - There are seven units and they will commence on 9 March 2023.
- Attendees will conduct a risk assessment prior, and develop a three-year strategy and six-month action plan
during the course. A six-month virtual workshop will be held with course partners where they can share
successes and learnings.
- The virtual workshop course is a collaboration between Flinders, Griffith and Monash Universities sponsored
- The Australasian Road Safety Conference 2022 (ARSC2022) took place on the 28-30 of September and featured three NRSPP presentations and the winner of NRSPP sponsored award for best paper with implications for workplace road safety went to