Current as at 30 of October 2024 as approved by the 28th Steering Committee Meeting

Key:

Q&As under development:

• Compliance verses Safety Culture
• Emotional fatigue
• Unloading and loading of light trucks within the retail and grocery sector

Special Projects Underway

• Commonwealth Funded Project: National Road Safety Partnership Program: Supporting Australian businesses in developing a positive road safety culture
  • ACTIVITY 1:Measuring Workplace Road Safety Culture and Grey Fleet Risk Management:
    • An upgrade to the NRSPP website which digitises Workplace Road Safety (WRS) performance and provides a risk rating for the safety management of grey fleet vehicles.
    • Integration of performance measures into the NRSPP Program Requirement helping partners to annually measure their WRS culture and have it documented on the NRSPP website. 
    • Development of an online Tool for Grey Fleet Risk Maturity Continuum to assist with helping organisations understand where they sit in terms of risk management maturity, they can then understand what actions they can undertake to improve their score.
  • ACTIVITY 2:Grey Fleet Safety Management
    • Re-activation and renewal of the Grey Fleet WG to provide industry governance of the project (which is outlined below). 
    • Literature review.
    • Benchmarking of four diverse Industry Partners with grey fleet.
    • Updated Grey Fleet Guide.
    • Grey Fleet Risk Continuum with key performance measures.
    • Webinar on Grey Fleet Management.
    • 10 grey fleet worker safety packages based on the TBT method but adapted to this sector.
    • A research report.
    • A journal paper on the Grey Fleet Safety Management and Risk Maturity Continuum.
    • Conference presentation at the 2025 Australasian Road Safety Conference.
  • ACTIVITY 3:Development of organisational content such as Toolbox Talks (TBT) and organisational workplace road safety campaigns:
    • Develop 10 TBT specifically for Grey Fleet governed by the Grey Fleet WG.
    • 20 for TBT – updated 13 the current outdated light vehicle TBT to the new format with a supporting videos as per Eco-Driving and develop seven new governed by the Vehicle TBT WG. 
    • WRS Organisational Campaign for 2024 and 2025. 
• Heavy Vehicle Safety Initiative Language: Translation of Heavy Vehicle Toolbox Talks proposal to Heavy Vehicle Safety Initiative 
  • The NRSPP has identified a TBT gap. There are many individuals who have immigrated to Australia, and who have English as a second language, who are entering the heavy vehicle sector as truck drivers and therefore there is an emerging safety ‘translation’ gap. The project would translate the top 13 TBT which are particularly unique to professional truck drivers into the top three languages of English as a second language drivers.  
  • The project outputs will include:
    • Translation of thirteen packages into three languages
    • Update of the NRSPP to reflect language offerings
    • Development of promotional material with Non-English-Speaking truck driver champions from the communities to promote the materials.

Partnerships

• Safe Teams Light Sail integration for NRSPP Toolbox Talks and organisational campaigns
• Network for Employer Transport Safety (NETS) adapting NRSPP TBT for their US members.