How to improve driver and vehicle safety in councils.

The pioneering FleetSafe Report was published in August 1999 as the result of a joint initiative of the Southern Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils (SSROC) and the New South Wales Roads and Traffic Authority (NSW RTA). FleetSafe is the first collaborative initiative involving a model policy and implementing guidelines in Australia. One large council has achieved a 6% decrease in incidents with a 34% decrease in costs, discounting catastrophic events. Whilst it is too early to attribute this to solely to FleetSafe, the data provides real encouragement to further progress the implementation of FleetSafe. This paper will: 1. briefly explain fleet safety; 2. provide an overview of the FleetSafe Report content; and 3. make some key observations from the experience of the eleven SSROC Councils. (Author/publisher) For the covering entry of this conference, please see ITRD abstract no. E208059.