This six-monthly Program Partner Newsletter provides a snapshot of the inner workings of NRSPP in the past six months.

Overview – This Newsletter contains:

  • Welcoming New Partners
  • NRSPP Support
  • Farewell and Acknowledgement
  • Recognising NRSPP Interns & Students
  • Some Key Achievements for July – December 2022
  • Special Feature: Impact of the Coronavirus on Road Safety in Australia: Lessons from the National Lockdown
  • Special Projects Deep Dive
  • Partner Contribution
  • NRSPP Safe Driver Booklet
  • Working Group Updates
    • Construction Logistics and Community Safety – Australia (CLOCS-A)
    • Heavy Vehicle Tool Box Talk Working Group
    • Empowr Mobility
    • Re:act road and workplace safety program
    • 2022 Utilities Forum
  • Q&As
  • New Website Content
  • Heavy Vehicle Toolbox Talk Snippets
  • Road Workers
  • Directors and Officers Course (D&O)
  • What’s in the Pipeline?

Some Key Achievements:

  • NRSPP led two scoping workshops to explore adapting the Utilities Forum model into other sectors. The scoping forums focused on:
    • Independent Contractor Gig Sector: establish a standing consortium of rideshare, food delivery, and parcel delivery companies, safety experts, and researchers focused on improving their workers’ safety on the road.
    • Retail and Grocery Sector: conducted in partnership with Super Retail Group and hosted by EY. Its intent was to initiate discussions between key stakeholders across the retail and grocery sector to understand how a forum could be framed to facilitate improvements to safety practices across the sector.
  • The NRSPP is proud to have sponsored the award for Best Paper With Implications For Workplace Road Safety since its inception five years ago. The award for this year was presented by the NRSPP Independent Chair Professor Emerita Judith Charlton to:
    • OzHelp for their paper “Health in Gear: Improving Health and Wellbeing for the Transport and Logistics Industry”. The paper was presented by Emily Brown and co-authored by Frank Arsegoa and Lesa O’Leary.
  • NRSPP will be taking on the Governance of the Vehicle Safety Research Group (VSRG) which operates a vehicle research program delivered by MUARC. NRSPP will formally take on full governance from 1 July 2023 and is currently building the framework to take it forward. The delivery of VSRG will include collaboration with the Swinburne University Bureau, who will take on the strategic communications and design of reports and the Used Car Safety Ratings, and the governance will be led by Jennifer Rivera-Gonzalez.
  • The online Directors and Officers Course (D&O) “Safe Mobility Systems – Corporate Governance” has been finalised and will commence 9 March 2023.
  • NRSPP signs the Everymind National Communications Charter regarding safe language regarding suicide within the road transport system
    • Everymind is a leading institute dedicated to reducing mental ill-health, reducing suicide and improving wellbeing. Everymind developed national guidelines for communicating about suicide on the road network for government, industry and the media. This is demonstrated when Everymind are developing policy, programs and resources to support our stakeholders and community.
  • NRSPP presented at three conferences in the past six months:
  • NRSPP presented at the Bulk Tanker Field Day, IPEWA Plant and Vehicle Management Workshop and SG Fleet.