This six-monthly Partner newsletter provides an update on the inner workings of NRSPP and is designed for our current and prospective partners.

Overview – This Newsletter Contains:

  • Welcoming New Partners
  • Recognising NRSPP Swinburne Intern Students
  • Some Key Achievements for 2019/20
  • Working Group Updates
  • 2019 Utilities Forum
  • Suicide in Road Transport (SiRT)
  • Empowr Mobility
  • New Website Content for 2019/20
    • Case Studies
    • Posters
    • Did You Know?
    • Throwback Thursdays
    • Q&A
    • Reports
    • Research
    • Videos
    • Thought Leadership
    • Webinars
    • Fact Sheets
    • Quick Facts
    • Tool Box Talks
  • What’s On Your Mind? No Distraction
  • In the Pipeline

Some Key Achievements:

  • NRSPP presented at numerous events in 2019 and 2020, including TMR’s National Driver Distraction Summit, Embedding a pPositive Road Safety Culture in Your Workplace webinar, , Safe People’s Injury Management Summit: Toward 2030, to name a few.
  • Michael Holmes, Sydney Metro’s Road Transport Safety Advisor, won NRSPP’s Best Paper with Implications for Improving Workplace Road Safety at ARSC2019 for his paper A Review on International Best Practices to Improve Heavy Vehicle Safety in Urban Environments and was our first Thought Leadership and webinar presented through Monash University
  • NRSPP secured NHVR Safety Funding for Stage 1 of Adapting Transport for London’s Construction Logistics and Community Safety initiative to Australia. The draft framework to be launched November 2020 as part of Road Safety Week.
  • NRSPP is delivering Stage 2 of Suicide in Road Transport Project, funded by Austroads, which commenced April 2020 and will conclude early 2021.
  • Delivery of 16 webinars reaching more than 4,450 registered attendees.
  • NRSPP Utilities Forum 2019 was kindly hosted by Santos in Brisbane and was linked with the Safer Together Road Incident Review forum on the previous day. The Australian Automobile Association attended to help inform its newly released Road Safety Research Fund. The 2020 forum was to be hosted by Optus in Sydney and has been delayed until 2021.
  • NRSPP Program Partner Hard Edge expanded Re:act into NSW in 2019, with Queensland and England joining in 2020.
    • oOh!media adds a ‘wow’ factor to Re:act resulting in Re:act featuring on more than 300 digital screens in universities, bars, retail outlets and roadside locations, across inner city Melbourne and Sydney
    • Young people’s attitudes and behaviour on our roads changing before your eyes
  • NRSPP Program Manager Jerome Carslake became a first-year judge on the Vero Advancer Awards, presented in Sydney on October 24, and the 2019 Brake Fleet Awards.
  • NRSPP’s social initiative Empowr Mobility has been accepted into the Monash 2020 Generator.