When it comes to heavy vehicle safety, is your organisation doing all that it can in 2022 to save the lives of its drivers and others?
A 2021 study by Monash University anticipates the number of heavy vehicle drivers involved and injured in road crashes will increase by 23% by 2030 (over 2017) figures.
With such worrying figures, here are our Top 10 Heavy Vehicle Safety Tips for Fleet Managers to improve safety around heavy vehicles.
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EMPLOY SAFETY SOLUTIONS, TOOLBOX AND SAFETY TIPS
Over the past two decades and in the coming two decades there will be a growing number of people becoming heavy vehicle drivers, for example, people working for supermarket deliveries around our towns and the increasing reliance on freight given our growing population and regional centres. Unlike the past, many will not have come from an environment where they grew up driving heavy vehicles, e.g., farmers. They won’t have the years of lived experience that truck drivers in the past have had. Becoming a good and safe truck driver takes time and experience. Ensuring organisations and fleet managers are providing the best safety solutions for their heavy vehicle fleets is a critical measure in reducing the road toll and the costs – actual and personal (injuries, PSTD) – related to heavy vehicle accidents.