A Partnership Program to Improve Road Safety

1. A Partnership Program to Improve Road Safety Jeff Potter National Road Safety Summit 24 August 2012

2. A corporate approach to transport safety • What can private sector organisations do to contribute to the National Road Safety Strategy targets? • Recognise influence of business (not just transport industry) • Identify things entirely within the control of an individual company • Recognise need to benefit company – not just altruistic corporate social responsibility

3. The workplace • Decisions made in the normal course of business can affect how employees, customers and suppliers use the road network. • Legal obligations exist under the work health and safety regulations – road safety should be a natural extension. • Good safety culture goes beyond compliance

4. Objective of the National Road Safety Strategy 2011-20 • …….to reduce annual deaths & serious injuries by at least 30% • Annual number of Australian road deaths TARGET

5. Australian work related fatalities 2/3 of work related fatalities involve vehicles. • Vehicles pose the greatest risk to employees • Source: Safe Work Australia 2012 What is killing our employees?

6. Commuter fatalities • Commuters are consistent portion of work related deaths • Details of commuter deaths not well reported • Nearly two-thirds of bystander fatalities involved a traffic incident • Source: Safe Work Australia 2012

7. Building relationships Discussion Paper July 2011 National workshops August – December 2011 • What needs to be done to implement sustainable solutions? • Who should be involved?

8. Consultation Feedback Overall Themes • Need to link to government and NGO’s safety initiatives • There is a need to get small companies on board • Safety must be driven from the top down within organisations • Need to shift companies from a mind-set of “having to do” to “willing to do” • Do not duplicate what already exists – bring it all together • Build on commercial relationships • Evaluation is essential • Clear benefit for any program

9. Building relationships Discussion Paper July 2011 National workshops August – December 2011 • What needs to be done to implement sustainable solutions? • Who should be involved? Steering Committee June 2012 • ensure content and progress of program aligned with industry needs and expectations

10. Steering Committee

11. Draft Strategy • Prepared from outcome of consultation • Endorsed by steering committee • Release for comment early September

12. Key activities within strategy • Seven key activities identified from our consultation • Central repository for knowledge transfer collaboration forum, case studies, assessment tools, etc • Range of case studies • Alignment of businesses, government and researchers • Road safety topics to be workshopped for solutions • Recognition • Online benchmarking • Present international leading practices

13. Implementation - Framework The program delivery medium

14. To download a copy of the discussion paper please visit www.ntc.gov.au and click on ‘to view reports issued for comments’ in the news section. Please contact project team members at: Dr Jeff Potter jpotter@ntc.gov.au Jerome Carslake jcarslake@ntc.gov.au Jane Cureton jcureton@ntc.gov.au Binh Le ble@ntc.gov.au

15. Who is the National Transport Commission • Purpose • To lead national regulatory and operational reform and implementation strategies for land transport • Work Program • Approved by SCOTI • NTC’s Mission • To champion and facilitate changes that • improve productivity, safety and environmental outcomes