Registrations of interest are being sought from drivers, management and staff in the timber industry to take part in the Australian Forest Contractors Association’s Professional Ownership and Driver Wellbeing program. Source: Timberbiz
The program will be delivered via a series of 30 free forestry sessions across Australia specifically targeting drivers, management and staff within the industry.
AFCA has been allocated $140,000 in heavy vehicle safety funding to support the program through the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator’s (NHVR) 2019 Heavy Vehicle Safety Initiative, supported by the Federal Government.
The program has been developed by Australian Trucking Safety Services & Solutions and KJ Training and Consulting to address the ‘human factor’s such as fatigue, inattention and complacency.
These ‘human factors’ have been identified as the underlying causes of several recent crashes in heavy and light vehicles in the forest industry.
The program will provide an opportunity to address these factors and complements work already occurring within the industry relating to Chain of Responsibility, Registered Codes of Practice and training about significant risks such as truck rollovers.
The aim of the program is to guide participants to adopt a proactive, intrinsically motivated view of solutions to driving challenges.
The 30 sessions will be delivered over a 2½ hour session by two facilitators to assist drivers and management to collaboratively develop personal management tools, challenge participants to examine personal ownership and responsibility for their own and the community’s safety and show them how to develop a personal risk reduction plan and build on key learning outcomes from the Heavy Vehicle Rollover Awareness Program.
Sessions will be limited to a maximum of 40 participants per session.
To register your interest visit https://www.afca.asn.au/podw-program-1/podw-program
