TruckSafe, the Australian Trucking Association’s (ATA) business and risk management system, has released its new 2024 safety management systems – or SMS.
The ATA launched TruckSafe in 1996 in response to government concerns about what the road transport industry was doing to improve safety.
TruckSafe works to create a flexible and proactive risk-based approach to chain of responsibility (CoR), safety and compliance for its 180 members.
According to the ATA, TruckSafe is the first and only industry-led scheme to provide a comprehensive CoR safety management system.
Today’ launch also includes an owner-driver SMS.
TruckSafe chair Paul Fellows said the new TruckSafe SMSs were game changers.
“Not only will TruckSafe members be using best practice methods for the identification and management of safety risks, but they will also have the flexibility to create and use policies, procedures, and processes that suit their business activities rather than the one size fits all approach used by traditional, compliance-based schemes,” he said.
He added that while accredited TruckSafe members already met the majority of the SMS requirements, the requirements for the single vehicle owner-driver SMS would be even less onerous.