Christina Heffner - Dept of Transport and Main Roads QLD

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Delivering heavy vehicle safetysolutions togetherQueensland’s Heavy Vehicle Safety Strategy 2016-18Presented by: Christina Heffner A/Executive Director (Legislation & Standards) | Transport Regulation Branch Customer Service, Safety and Regulation Division | Department of Transport and Main Roads

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Our values, our diversity

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Overview

1. Queensland Road Safety Strategy2. Heavy Vehicle Road Safety Snapshot3. Heavy Vehicle Action Safety Plan• Summary• Progress to date.

HV & CoR Safety Conference | 14-15 November 2016

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Safer roads, safer Queensland

Queensland’s RoadSafety Strategy 2015-21 • An ambitious vision –

zero road deaths andserious injuries.

• Four guiding principles.


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The true road toll is broader than fatalities


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We need an ambitious vision with interimtargets to inspire and motivate action


• A new vision for the future: zero road deaths and seriousinjuries

• In Queensland, we will aim to:̶ reduce fatalities from 303 (average 2008-2010) to 200 or fewer

by 2020̶ reduce hospitalised casualties from 6670 (average 2008-2010) to

4669 or fewer by 2020.

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Safe system principles are the foundationfor action


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Road safety is everyone’s issue andeveryone’s responsibility


Road Safety

Drivers

Vehicle Manufacturersand Repairers

Road Managers andPolice

Executive Officers andManagers

Consignors Consignees

SchedulersLoadersPackers

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Heavy vehicle road safety

• Heavy Vehicles represent2.3% of registeredvehicles.

• Are involved in over 20 percent of road fatalities.

• 49 lives lost, and hundredsseriously injured, in heavyvehicle crashes in 2015.


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Road fatalities in Queensland


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Hospitalisations in Queensland


Around 7.2% of serious injuries resulting in hospitalisation are forcrashes involving heavy vehicles.

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Delivering heavy vehicle safety solutionstogether

Queensland’s HeavyVehicle Safety ActionPlan 2016-18 • Six key action areas.• 31 initiatives.


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Key action areas

1. Safer roads

2. Safer vehicles

3. Fatigue management

4. Seatbelts

5. Speed

6. Safer road users


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1. Safer roads

Identify and correct unsafe road infrastructure andoperational characteristics:


• Route assessment guideline• Performance Based Scheme (PBS)

route audit• Road Manager ‘Tool box’• Wide centre-line treatment• Road feature involvement in heavy

vehicle crashes analysis• Investigate need for additional

emergency stopping bays.

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Route assessment and road assessment

• Route Assessment• Guideline on target for early 2017.• PBS route audit underway.• ‘Tool box’ funded in 2017-18.

• Wide centre-line treatment• $11.15 million over two years.• 18 Bruce Highway locations from

Cairns to Gympie.• Over 900 km completed.


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2. Safer vehicles

Improve maintenance and adopt safer technology forheavy vehicles:


• Advocate safer technologies• Information for industry and education• Increase use of PBS vehicles• National Heavy Vehicle Accreditation

Scheme (NHVAS) audits• Expand use of telematics• Improve coordination and monitoring

of over-dimensional movements.

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Telematics

Transport and Main Roads Heavy Vehicle Telematics Strategy 2016


Integrated application,critical investigationand early adoption

Enforcement byexception

Focussed andmeaningfulstakeholderengagement

Streamlinedadministration and

evidence-basedreporting

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3. Fatigue management

Reducing fatigue-related crashesthrough:• Rest area audit• Audio tactile line marking• Log book compliance focus• Rest area upgrades• Electronic work diaries• Investigate fatigue-detection

technologies.


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Rest area improvement project

• The rest area and stoppingplaces audit completed.

• 2931 rest areas identifiedstate-wide.

• Two new rest areasplanned for CapricornHighway, with $2.57 millionallocated for delivery in2016-17.


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4. Seatbelts

Increase the rate of seatbelt usage amongst heavyvehicle drivers• Identify causes.• Promote technologies.• Management practices.


In Queensland on average over the last five tosix years, 60.7%of heavy freight vehicle occupant fatalitiesand 10.3% of heavy freight vehicle occupanthospitalised casualties were unrestrained.

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5. Speed

Target speed• Investigate data exchange

opportunities.• Promote speed limiter

guidelines.• Encourage safety focus in

contracts.• Investigate speed limiter

tampering.• Warning letters.


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6. Safer road users

Impaired driving• Promote industry drug policies.• Adopt the WHSQ Framework.• Expand drug testing. Driver distraction• Information for employees on

distracting technologies.


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Shared responsibility

• Chain of responsibility.• Risk management approach.• Everyone plays their part.


Achieving the vision of zero road deaths and serious injurieswill take a serious commitment from everyone involved in theroad network to understand their role in saving a life.

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Thank you

The Queensland Heavy Vehicle Safety Action Plan 2016–18 can be foundat:

http://www.tmr.qld.gov.au/Safety/Road-safety/Strategy-and-action-plans

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