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Chain of Responsibilities Management Plan

Management plan · PLAN-20229

  • Version 3

This Chain of Responsibilities Management Plan promotes your business's compliance and safety within the transport and warehousing industry. It covers the important aspects of the Heavy Vehicle National Law (HVNL) and Chain of Responsibility (CoR) obligations, and gives you a framework to manage them.

It sets out the Chain of Responsibility policy and the duties of executive officers, operators, managers and schedulers, consignors and consignees, loading managers, loaders and packers, drivers and other workers, with policies and procedures for the safe driving plan, driver fatigue management, speed, mass, dimension, load restraint, traffic management, vehicle maintenance, drugs and alcohol, falls prevention from vehicles and hazardous manual handling.

The administration sections cover induction, training, licences, log books, the code of conduct, reporting, incident and injury reporting, transporting hazardous substances and dangerous goods, and minor fuel and oil spill response. Fifteen appendices put it into practice: risk assessment forms, a non-conformance form, checklists, registers, incident and vehicle accident report forms and a load manifest.

It suits transport operators, warehouse managers, fleet managers and safety officers, and can be added to an existing management system.

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Chain of Responsibilities Management Plan

Management planVersion 3

Introduction

Chain of Responsibility (CoR) laws provide that every party in the heavy vehicle transport supply chain must ensure the safety of persons associated with their transport activities.

All parties who influence, direct or control transport operations in the supply chain share responsibility for the safety of heavy vehicle operations, even if they have no direct role in driving or operating a heavy vehicle.

This responsibility entails an obligation to eliminate or minimise potential harm or loss (risk) by doing all that is reasonably practicable to ensure the safe and legal transport of goods.

CoR components

Fatigue Management: Each person in the CoR must take all reasonable steps to ensure the driver of a fatigue-regulated heavy vehicle does not drive while impaired by fatigue or, breach road transport laws relating to fatigue.

Speed Management: Each person in the CoR must take all reasonable steps to ensure that all journeys can be completed in a timeframe that allows completion within legal speed limits.

Mass: Each person in the CoR must take all reasonable steps to ensure that loads are within the maximum legal gross vehicle and axle load limits and, that loads are within the maximum load mass of any freight container

43 more sections

  1. Management commitment and approval
  2. Scope
  3. Review procedure
  4. Document control
  5. References and applicable documents
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What it covers

44 sections

  1. Management commitment and approval
  2. Chain of responsibility policy
  3. Chain of responsibilities duties
  4. Safe driving plan
  5. Driver fatigue management
  6. Speed management
  7. Mass
  8. Dimension
  9. Load restraint
  10. Traffic management
  11. Maintenance
  12. Drugs and alcohol

and 26 more

Plus an introduction, document control, a review procedure, definitions and references

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