Road freight transport resources

Industry Guides

A guide to what every transport worker needs to know if you prepare, ship, load or carry dangerous goods, or supervise others to do so.  Also a manual, produced by the Road Freight Transport Industry Occupational Health and Safety Committee, to provide a step-by-step approach in dealing with occupational health and safety in the workplace.

• Transporting dangerous goods - What every transport worker needs to know [386KB]
• Road freight transport industry occupational health and safety: Employer's manual [522KB]

OHS Resources

• A transport worker's guide to keeping safe at work [1286KB]
• A health and safety guide for operators of small sized bus and coach businesses [476KB]
• SAfer Industries Strategic Plan 2004-2006 [199KB]
• Road freight transport industry guide to meeting the occupational health and safety duty of care [270KB]
• Simple Steps for an Owner Driver to Manage Health and Safety [1,819KB]

Industry Specific Resources

• Safe work sheet: Heavy truck driver [363KB]
• Safe work sheet: Road freight transport [57KB]
• How an injury affects your levy payments [13KB]
• Road transport falls prevention manual [435KB]

Hazard Specific Resources

• Hazard alert 28 - Operation of convertible tipping trailers [124KB]
• Hazard alert 18 - Inadvertent operation of hydraulic equipment [46KB]

Industry specific workers compensation information sheets

• Road freight transport industry OHS Committee - Providing injured workers with suitable alternative duties [26KB]
• What are claims agents? [27KB]
• Road Freight Transport Industry OHS Committee - Rights and responsibilities for employers and workers in workers compensation newsletter [31KB]
• Save your business money by getting injured employees back to work newsletter [29KB]
• The Workers Compensation System newsletter [41KB]