Sandra Nelson Accident Compensation Corporation 18 Sale Street, Auckland, New Zealand Sandra.nelson@acc.co.nz (P03, Wednesday 26, Civic Room 1, 12.00)

1. Fleet Safety
Programme Overview

2. Introducing Fleet Safety

3. What is the Fleet Safety Programme?
Positive and proactive injury prevention programme targeting
work related road use
• Four government agencies working to make our roads safer
• Uses technology and data to identify organisations that can best benefit
from our help to improve fleet safety
• Tailored interventions for those organisations with highest risk of road
crashes
• Best practice Fleet Safety information available via website
fleetsafety.govt.nz

4. Who is involved in Fleet Safety?
Four government agencies are working together to deliver the
programme as part of Safer Journeys strategy
• New Zealand Transport Agency
• Department of Labour
• ACC
• Police

5. Why do we need the programme?
The injury and death toll for work related road crashes is too high
• On average, 31 New Zealanders die in work-related road crashes each year
and many more are injured
• Internationally, it is estimated work related incidents make up 25% of the road
toll
• 18,000 fleets of 5 or more vehicles
• 12,500 fleets of 10 or more vehicles

6. Who is covered by the programme?
Fleet Safety covers any person who drives as part of their job
• All vehicle types – cars, vans, light commercial and trucks
• Organisational fleets of five vehicles or more
• Fleet managers and business owners are responsible for work road safety
under Health and Safety in Employment Amendment Act 2002

7. Road safety and HSE Act 2002
The 2002 amendment to HSE Act made it clear that people who
are mobile at work are covered by the Act
• Drivers’ personal behaviours covered as potential work hazards and
sources of harm
• Act covers employees in their own
or rented vehicles not just work vehicles
• Identifies that certain behaviour
may create a hazard

8. How Fleet Safety works

9. How does the programme work?
Fleet Safety follows three key steps
• Collect data and analyse to produce crash risk score
• Alert companies to their crash risk and point to website for self help
• Offer tailored assistance to improve safety to companies at highest risk

10. Step 1 – collect data
Initial data is provided by NZ Police and New Zealand Transport Agency
NZTA data includes:
• Warrant and Certificate of fitness failure rates
• Vehicle kilometres travelled
• Driver hours
Infringement data includes:
• Alcohol and drug impairment
• Dangerous driving
• Speed
• Restraints
• Fatigue
Crash data

11. Research showed that companies had little understanding of their
crash risk and their responsibilities to manage on road health and
safety
• Letter sent to companies that have amber or red risk ratings or that have
a vehicle involved in serious traffic incident
• Provided log on details to access their fleet data in secure section of
fleetsafety.govt.nz
• Prompted to use the tools and resources
on website to improve their health and
safety practices
Step 2 – alert companies

12. Step 3 – offer tailored assistance
For those companies at highest risk, staff from the partner agencies
can come and assist to help improve fleet safety
• One or more of the agencies proactively working face to face with
company
• Range of interventions and tools to help improve safety performance
• Regular review and continued involvement
as crash risk improves to acceptable level

13. Benefits of Fleet Safety

14. For companies
Fleet managers getting the information they need to manage their risk
• Alerted to their risk rating proactively
• Can access data about their fleet previously not available
• Range of resources and tools available in one place to make change if
needed
• Tailored help from agencies if needed
• Improved fleet safety benefits the
bottom line

15. For partner agencies
Targeting resources to help those most at risk
• Sharing data more effectively than ever before – working from evidence
base
• Working collaboratively to match best resources and skill sets to those
who need it most
• Improved safety through safer drivers and safer vehicles

16. What next?

17. Phased roll out
The Fleet Safety programme will be rolled out district by district
• Starting with Waikato and Bay of Plenty in January 2012

18. Questions?