Did you know that the National Heavy Vehicle Law (NSW) s 26D(1) states ‘If a legal entity has a safety duty, an executive of the legal entity must exercise due diligence to ensure the legal entity complies with the safety duty’? Read more…
Both the National Heavy Vehicle Law and Work Heath and Safety law impose a safety duty on truck driver employers and other persons conducting a business or undertaking. Penalties are significant for non compliance. Further, Transport companies risk being vicariously liable for the non-competence of their truck drivers.
An obvious benefit of truck driver verification of competency is to identify poor driving that leads to vehicle damage. Verifico can assess a truck drivers training needs and intervene with corrective training all in the one session. The team at Verifico are highly experience in heavy vehicle driver training and assessment.
Any reasonable person would agree that anything that can improve the safety for truck drivers and other road users is good thing. As a family-company, Verifico places significant emphasis on this duty in our own staffing arrangements. We all want our workmates to arrive home alive, and a verification of competency can support that.
Services are provided intensively which reduces costs. ELearning promotes positive assessment results which leads to cost savings. The cost of legal fees, vehicle damage, insurance premium rises and reputation damage should be considered when analysing the benefits of verifying the competency of truck drivers.
Driver Solutions Pty Ltd is recognised by Transport for NSW under the Heavy Vehicle Competency Based Assessment (HVCBA) Program as a provider of heavy vehicle training and assessments for drivers wishing to obtain heavy vehicle driver licences. Verifico is the verification of competency division of the business.
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