NHVAS Accreditation and Compliance & Enforcement Laws
SAMS can Provide tailored programs that meet your business's specific needs under the:
- NHVAS MASS Management Accreditation;
- NHVAS MAINTENANCE Management Accreditation;
- NHVAS Fatigue Management (Standard, BFM, AFM) scheme
- OH&S Policies and Programs;
- C&E Programs;
- Any Combination of the above; and
- TruckSafe Accreditation.
SAMS recommends that you incorporate C&E compliance into your Accreditation program. The ideal approach is to have just one fully integrated Compliance & Accreditation Program. This can even include your OH&S policies and procedures. See SAMS Order Form
Under the new Fatigue Management laws, all truck operators and Customers need to be able to prove that they took All Reasonable Steps to avoid driving hours/fatigue breaches. The best way to do this, even for standard hours, is with one of SAMS Fatigue Management Programs.
For more information or our order form click here.
SAMS Compliance & Enforcement ABC&E services for truck operators and customers include:
- C&E Briefings – for your staff, Customers or Transport Operators;
- C&E Training;
- C&E Risk Assessments;
- C&E Systems and procedures development and implementation;
- FATIGUE Management and/or C&E Programs
- ABC&E How-to-Guides and tools.
SAMS ABC&E services and products can help you understand and deal effectively with the Compliance & Enforcement (C&E) laws that impose legal liabilities on all CUSTOMERS who send or receive freight on trucks as well as on all people in the trucking industry whenever:
- Trucks are OVERLOADED;
- Trucks breach DIMENSION limits, including by going off Approved Routes;
- A Truck’s load breaches the LOAD RESTRAINT rules; or from 28 September 2008
- The operation involves breaches of the Driving Hours/FATIGUE Management laws; or
- The operation involves breaches of the SPEED laws covering Heavy Vehicles.
All parties involved in a breach, through their acts or omissions, are held Absolutely Liable: ie GUILTY until you PROVE your innocence through a Reasonable Steps Defence.
Fines of up to $50,000 apply to companies and up to $10,000 for individuals. It is therefore essential for all handlers, packers, loaders, carriers, senders and receivers of road freight on vehicles weighing 4.5 tonne or more when loaded, can PROVE that they:
- Understand the C&E laws and their responsibilities under them;
- Assess their C&E Risks;
- Develop and Implement effective C&E procedures; and
- Train staff and monitor performance.
SAMS can help you with all of this. SAMS has had extensive involvement in the development and the implementationof the C&E and Fatigue laws. Our expert advice and range of ABC&E services, Accreditation Programs and Fatigue Management Tools will help your business comply and be able to prove a Reasonable Steps Defence in the event of breaches.
For help in complying with the C&E and Fatigue Laws and protecting your business, call SAMS on 08 8445 9777 or email us at sams@sams.net.au or fax on 08 8445 8199.
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