Road safety
Road safety
Almost 30% of workplace fatalities in NSW are the result of road crashes at work, while about 26% of the state road toll involves a vehicle being used for business.
Road Safety and Your Work: A Guide for Employers will help your organisation establish internal policies and practices for safe work-related travel.
Employers have a primary duty of care to provide and supervise a safe system of work under the Work Health and Safety Act 2011.
- a vehicle used for business is considered to be a workplace
- a business must provide workers with the information, instruction, training and supervision necessary to ensure their health and safety, this includes when driving for work
- road safety is a shared responsibility between you and your workers.
In February 2018, the NSW Government released the Road Safety Plan. This was developed to set new road safety priorities and actions to help NSW work toward the State Priority Target for a reduction in road fatalities.
In support of the Road Safety Plan a guide has been developed that provides workplaces with information about key road safety issues and risks, and ways to help you and your workers get around safely while using the road. It also provides information to help you embed road safety within your workplace.
To further support employers, the Road Safety in Your Workplace program has been developed. It consists of an online employer toolkit to aid your organisation in embedding road safety in your workplace. This program also contains an interactive eLearning course for your workers, supporting case study videos that showcase good practice employers, toolbox talks for delivery by your leaders, checklists, templates, as well as fact sheets targeted at your workers.
More information
- Download the Road Safety and Your Work: A Guide for Employers.
- Click through to Road Safety in Your Workplace to complete the road safety employer toolkit.
Further supporting resources have been developed to help organisations to embed road safety in the workplace:
- Road safety in your workplace fact sheet – this fact sheet provides an overview of the main responsibilities of employers, the benefits to employers of adapting a positive road safety culture, and some ways to help employers on engaging with their workers
- Guide for Developing a Road Safety Policy – provides a structure that can be adapted to the specific circumstances and requirements of your organisation
- Online employer toolkit from Transport for NSW