At each general forum meeting we invite speakers to come along and talk about their specific areas of expertise, that the industry may find interesting and helpful.
On this page:
Presentation delivered by Tim Wilson, Tim Wilson Consultancy Ltd
No one goes to work expecting to get hurt, sick or killed. But in New Zealand, far too many people do. In 2013, government announced its Working Safer reform package, aimed at bringing down this country’s workplace injury and death toll by 25 percent by 2020. The most important part of this is the new Health and Safety at Work Legislation, which will make every workplace responsible for the health and safety of all workers.
The new Health and Safety at Work Act has now been passed by Parliament. The new legislation comes into effect on 4 April 2016.
A summary of some of the key changes was provided in the attached presentation given by Tim, who was asked to be part of the Taskforce to review the Commission of Inquiry’s reform recommendations. The minutes from the Hawkes Bay session dated 2 June 2015, or the Gisborne session dated 3 June 2015 may provide more detail to assist you with understanding the presentation.
However for further information on the new Health and Safety at Work Act 2015, visit WorkSafe NZ’s webpage at: www.business.govt.nz/worksafe(external link).
For information on the series of regulations that are being developed to support the new Act, visit the Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment webpage(external link).
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Presentation delivered by Pete Patterson, Nimon & Sons Ltd, 13 February 2015.
In this presentation, Nimon & Sons share their experience on achieving a 12-month certificate of fitness (CoF) and the financial benefit this programme has enabled them to achieve. As of 1 July 2014 the ability to obtain CoFs that last 12 months came into effect on the basis that certain criteria was followed. To be considered for a 12-month CoF the individual vehicle must have passed, first time, all CoF inspections for the last three years, and all other qualifying vehicles in the operator’s fleet must have achieved an average pass rate at least 95%, and the operator must have an ORS RID score of 0.10 or less.
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Presentation delivered by Oliver Postings, NZ Transport Agency, 13 February 2015.
As indicated in the minutes, Oliver provided the audience with an update on the 50MAX/HPMV programme, an overview of road works happening in the next year on the state highway, and work being carried out on the Mōhaka Bridge, all for the Hawke's Bay region.
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Presentation given by Jenni Wilson-Kaio, NZ Transport Agency, 5 June 2013
OnTheMove is a fully customisable online travel information service provided by the NZ Transport Agency. It is a free email service that provides information to travellers before their journey about notable road and driving conditions, incidents and road works taking place on New Zealand’s state highway network.
Visit www.onthemove.govt.nz(external link)
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Presentation given by Tom Logan, NZ Transport Agency, 5 June 2013
The objectives of the vehicle licensing reform is to reduce regulatory burden while maintaining safety, align regulatory intervention with safety risks and benefits, improve customer service, reduce compliance and admin costs and get net benefits from reform changes.
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Presentation given by Paul Sinclair, E-ROADS, 5 June 2013
If you don't measure it, you can't manage it. You can't improve on behaviour of vehicles if you don't know what they are doing. What measures are you taking to mitigate vehicle and driver behaviour, so that your risk is considered acceptable for insurance cover?
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Presentation given by Lynn Williams, NZ Transport Agency, 5 June 2013
An overview of work time and logbook legislation to promote willing compliance from within the industry, with a look at how to complete a logbook, why a logbook should be completed, when should a log book be completed and by whom.
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Find out more about work-time and logbook requirements
Presentation given by Lynn Williams, NZ Transport Agency, 5 June 2013
Information on how transport officers work with transport operators using education first, and how a transport officer uses willing compliance to enhance the transport operator’s compliance with legislation.
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Presentation given by Tracy Clarken & Jennifer Wilson-Kaio, NZ Transport Agency, 5 June 2013
Providing operators with some insight into why we ask applicants for the information that we ask for, and see how we process the applications in order to produce these two types of permits with a demonstration of our overweight permit system.
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Find out more about permits
Presentation given by Sue Ashmore, Opus International Consultants, 5 March 2013
Axle weight flexibility (AWF) is an alternative option for applicants applying for a higher mass HPMV permit, and may be appropriate for loads that are difficult to distribute uniformly and precisely across all axles, for example: logs.
Read more about axle weight flexibility
Presentation given by Sandy Walker, Road Transport Association, 5 March 2013
This presentation looked at the iceberg effect of truck crashes with direct costs versus indirect costs. The indirect costs are 5 to 50 times your direct costs. For every $1 direct cost is a minimum of $5 indirect costs.
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Presentation given by Nathan Meo, ACC, 5 March 2013
This is a multi-agency, Injury Prevention Programme, targeting work related road use, on all vehicle types, as work related incidents make up 25% of the road toll and 30% of all workplace fatalities happen in road crashes. The agencies working in collaboration are ACC, Police, Ministry of Business, Innovation and Enterprise as well as the NZ Transport Agency.
Presentation given by Nathan Meo, ACC, 5 March 2013
This incentive scheme was set up to encourage systematic management practices, such as fuel saving and safer driving.
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Presentation given by Sandy Walker, Road Transport Association, 5 March 2013
The road transport sector is the most regulated industry in New Zealand, and the industry has huge compliance costs, yet suffers continuous negative exposure in the media. Whether the truck is in the right or wrong in any incident, it's share mass makes road transport look like the guilty party. The focus needs to change to promote the road transport industry on the good things we do for New Zealand as a whole, turning negatives into positives.
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Presentation given by Doug Latto, Transport & Mechanical Consulting, 5 September 2012
Learn about how the stability of vehicles can be greatly affected by the way they're loaded, low -peed off-tracking and high-speed off-tracking.
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Presentation given by Bryan Talbot, NZ Transport Agency, 5 September 2012
The cost of using New Zealand’s roads is recovered from road users via levies in the price of some fuels or through road user charges (RUC). Changes to the RUC system came into effect on 1 August 2012, and changes to RUC rates came into effect on 1 July 2013.
Presentation given by Don Hutchinson, NZ Transport Agency, 12 April 2012
The Operator Rating System (ORS) aims to improve the safety of heavy vehicles on our roads, making journeys safer for all. It rates transport operator performance against New Zealand transport standards and regulations.
Presentation given by Sue Ashmore, Opus International Consultants, 12 April 2012
Gross loads affect bridge beams, axle loads affect bridge decks, and wheel loads affect cantilevers on bridges.
