Driver Safety in the Workplace Framework
QFleet's Driver Safety in the Workplace Framework provides a range of resources and training to promote a positive road safety culture in your agency.
The framework is based around 3 main streams:
- Drivers
- Fleet managers and Workplace Health and Safety managers
- Industry and research.
How to use the framework
Under the Work Health and Safety Act 2011, a vehicle used for the purpose of work is classified as a workplace. Drivers are required to act accordingly and follow the agency's WH&S policies and procedures.
Road safety is a shared responsibility, and we all have a role to play in keeping ourselves and others safe on the road. Road incidents make up more than one-third of all occupational fatalities in Australia.
Use this framework to:
- make drivers aware of their responsibilities when driving a vehicle for work
- incorporate content into your agency's existing road safety risk management plan
- complement existing fleet management and WH&S policies and procedures.
Read more about using a vehicle as a workplace in the Austroads publication Vehicles as a workplace – work health and safety guide (PDF, 1.1MB).
Drivers
When you’re driving a Queensland Government vehicle, you must drive safely and take reasonable care for your own and others’ health and safety.
- Learn more about your responsibilities when driving a vehicle for work.
- Ask your fleet manager if your agency offers the QFleet Driving a vehicle for work - induction training.
- Read the online QFleet driver companion or the printed quick guide in your vehicle's glovebox.
- Read the Queensland road rules and other road safety information from the Department of Transport and Main Roads.
Fleet managers and WHS managers
Fleet managers can help improve road safety by adopting a risk management approach to driver safety in the workplace.
Typical risk controls for work-related driving include:
- developing work-related driving safety policies and procedures
- educating drivers on their responsibilities when driving a vehicle for work
- providing additional driver training, such as operating 4WD vehicles and reversing safely
- ensuring drivers are competent and fit to drive
- monitoring driver journey planning
- maintaining a safe and roadworthy fleet.
Driver education and training
Safe driving and workplace health and safety belong together—vehicles driven for work are considered a workplace. Therefore, driver education and training programs should be part of any organisations’ workplace health and safety strategy.
Read our information about driver education and training, including organising driver training, deciding who should attend and knowing the types of driver training available.
Road Safety Focus Network
The QFleet Road Safety Focus Network brings together WHS officers, operations and fleet managers to discuss driver safety concerns and share ideas on how to address driver safety in the workplace (e.g. driver education and how to improve incident reporting).
The network aims to:
- raise the profile of work-related driver safety
- facilitate a strategic and coordinated approach to improving driver safety across government.
A key focus is how to streamline and pool resources to deliver a risk management framework to improve driver safety in workplace (e.g. implementation of the QFleet ‘Driving a vehicle for work’ induction training).
Contact QFleet if you’re interested in attending road safety focus network meetings.
Industry and research
Road safety research
- Australasian College of Road Safety
- Australian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP)
- Australian Road Research Board (ARRB)
- Australian Transport Safety Bureau
- Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety-Queensland (CARRS-Q)
- Monash University Accident Research Centre (MUARC)
- National Road Safety Partnership Program
- Royal Automobile Club of Queensland (RACQ)
Legislation
Contact us
Contact QFleet if you have any questions about the framework.