WHAT IS TRUCKSAFE ACCREDITATION?

TruckSafe Pty Ltd is a wholly owned subsidiary company of the Australian Trucking Association. TruckSafe is a business and risk management system, which is aimed at improving the safety and professionalism of trucking operator's nation wide.

It is an industry initiative, which delivers competitive advantages to accredited operators.

Management - Aimed at ensuring that a trucking operator has a documented business system which covers each of the standards

Maintenance - Aimed at ensuring vehicles and trailers are kept in a safe and roadworthy condition. This standard covers the requirements for daily checks, fault reporting and recording, fault repair, scheduled maintenance, maintenance records and documentation, maintenance responsibilities, internal review, and maintenance training and education. TruckSafe maintenance also complies with NHVAS maintenance standards

Workplace and Driver Health - Aimed at ensuring that drivers are fit and healthy and Occupational Health and Safety requirements are met. This standard covers requirements for Workplace Health and Safety, Driver Health Screening (including medicals), the role of the medical practitioner, rehabilitation and fatigue management.

Training - Aimed at ensuring that drivers are licensed, authorised and trained for the tasks, which they are undertaking.

These are the minimum standards a trucking business should meet for it to be a safe, responsible operation. For operators, accreditation shows that they are meeting their due diligence and duty of care.

For customers, TruckSafe provides confidence that contractors have responsible work practices, well maintained vehicles, healthy and trained drivers and management systems to meet their transport needs. This also helps customers to meet their due diligence requirements.

HOW DO I BECOME ACCREDITED?

1.  The Application Process

a)   Purchase a TruckSafe Implementation Kit from one of the following TruckSafe endorsed
      retail outlets:

b)  Implement the standards into your business using the implementation kit

c)  Fill out all the required pages in the business rules booklet (supplied with the kit)

d)  Return your application book and application fee to TruckSafe

Please note that prior to entry into TruckSafe, you must have at least four weeks of TruckSafe records and at least 50% of all driver medicals must be completed.

TruckSafe, upon receipt of your application, will schedule your audit and have your auditor contact you to set an appropriate time and date to conduct the audit.

Please note; TruckSafe selects the auditor, so if you have other accreditation programs, please let us know what they are and when your audits are due so that we may synchronise the dates and have as many done by the same auditor in one visit.

2.  The Accreditation Process

Once your audit report is received by TruckSafe, it is assessed by the secretariat staff and then passed on to the TruckSafe Industry Accreditation Council (TIAC).

NB - This process can take up to four weeks to be completed. Once accreditation is granted, you will be issued with the following :

• A letter of accreditation
• A certificate of accreditation
• Identification labels, which will need to be displayed on each hauling unit.
  (Stickers are available for trailing units, if required.)

3.  What Are The Costs?

Level	Powered Units	Fee Type	Fee	Frequency
1	1	Initial Membership  Annual Membership	$ 1,700.00 $ 500.00	One Off Annually
2	2 - 4	Initial Membership  Annual Membership	$ 1,800.00 $ 700.00	One Off Annually
3	5 - 9	Initial Membership  Annual Membership	$ 2,300.00 $ 1,000.00	One Off Annually
4	10 - 19	Initial Membership  Annual Membership	$ 3,200.00 $ 1,400.00	One Off Annually
5	20 - 39	Initial Membership  Annual Membership	$ 4,300.00 $ 1,800.00	One Off Annually
6	40 - 89	Initial Membership  Annual Membership	$ 4,800.00 $ 2,400.00	One Off Annually
7	90 - 249	Initial Membership  Annual Membership	$ 7,500.00 $ 3,400.00	One Off Annually
8	> 249	Initial Membership  Annual Membership	$ 9,500.00 $ 5,100.00	One Off Annually

NOTES:

Initial Membership Fee Includes:
Implementation Kit, Joining Fee, Entry Audit and First Compliance Audit.
These costs apply to a single site audits, extra fees will apply for extra audits.

Annual Membership Fees after first year:
These fees include annual membership to TruckSafe, and your single site bi-annual compliance audits, extra fees will apply for extra audits.

4.  What Are The Benefits?

Commercial

TruckSafe enables you to verify to customers that you are reducing their risks through safe work practices, safe and well maintained trucks, healthy drivers and sound management systems thereby meeting your duty of care and Occupational Health and Safety responsibilities. Additional benefits include:

a)  Reduced maintenance costs

b)  Improved truck insurance benefits

c)  Reduced workers compensation costs

Internal

a)  Standardisation

b)  Eliminate duplication

c)  Reduced down time and re-work

d)  Competency based training

e)  External evaluations

f) . Improved employee health

g)  Increased productivity

5. Other Benefits

a)  Satisfies an increasing trend of customers requiring their suppliers to have Risk
     Management systems in place and included in tenders

b)  Increased business viability

c)  Continuous improvement of Business Systems through process development

For more information on TruckSafe please contact the TruckSafe secretariat on:

Phone:  (02) 6253 6900
Fax:      (02) 6253 6999
Email:   trucksafe@atatruck.net.au