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Bringing Safety Conversations to Life – NRSPP Heavy Vehicle Toolbox Talks Articles • June 2022 Safer Together Collaboration Partner, The National Road Safety Partnership Program (NRSPP) has developed a series of Toolbox Talks to help organisations deliver engaging safety messages on topics relevant to heavy vehicle drivers’ daily tasks. The first of these Toolbox Talks, which explores Driver Distraction, was released in May and the next one, which explores Fatigue, was released in June. We encourage all Safer Together Member Companies with transport interests to use these fantastic resources.

All Packed Up And Ready To Go! Packaging, Handling & Movement of Materials Specification Released Articles • June 2022 Here’s a great example of how Standardisation through sharing industry related non-conformance data in a common format is allowing us to more effectively identify issues that subsequently become focus areas to drive industry improvements. In a nutshell, this is what continuous improvement looks like.

New Members Articles • May 2022 We extend a warm welcome to three new member companies that joined our community of safety leaders in May 2022.

Marine Forum and Incident Review Panel – Back in Business Face-to-Face Articles • May 2022 In May our Marine Working Group (MWG) conducted their 5th Marine Forum and Incident Review Panel (IRP) with the theme ‘Lifting Operations on Vessels and Human Organisational Performance’.

Get A Load Of This! Uniform Non-Conformance Reporting Is Delivering The Goods Articles • May 2022 Continued use of the Safer Together UNCR tool by member companies to capture non-conformance data in a common format is allowing our industry to identify and track trends in non-conformance issues related to transport safety and enabling us to target industry-wide improvement efforts.

A Healthy Evolution - Fitness to Work Medical Assessment Guideline Adopted in WA/NT Articles • May 2022 The latest example of effective collaboration to achieve industry alignment is the widespread adoption and roll-out of the Fitness to Work Medical Assessment Guideline in WA/NT.

‘Lunch & Learn’ - Common Industry Competencies: Delivering Consistency and Clarity For Our Industry Articles • May 2022 The latest in our series of bite-sized ‘Lunch and Learn’ Events was held on 18 May, on the topic of ‘Common Industry Competencies’ (CICs). Presenters from Halliburton, Arrow Energy and Upstream Production Solutions stepped through why we need them, how they can best be adopted to improve safety outcomes across our industry, and the Safer Together tools available to member companies.

The Responses Are In - 2021 Safer Together Member Feedback Articles • May 2022 In January 2022 we asked the Senior Line Leader(s) of each of our member companies to give us their feedback so that we could gauge whether Safer Together is meeting the needs of its members. We received a lot of responses – read on to find out more.

Land Transport Incident Review Panel – A Wake Up Call About The Dangers of Driver Fatigue Articles • May 2022 According to the Australian Automobile Association, 20 to 30% of all vehicle crashes in Australia are attributable to fatigue. Fatigue-Related Incidents on the road are not uncommon in our industry, indicating that the need to understand and tackle fatigued driving is greater than ever. So it was appropriate that the latest Safer Together Land Transport Incident Review Panel (LTIRP) was focused on Fatigue.

So Many Tools…Where To Start? Articles • May 2022 Safer Together website users with sharp eyes will notice we’ve moved content on the homepage to make the categorisation and access of our Initiatives more visible.