Road safety in the workplace : the likely savings of a more extensive road safety training campaign for employees.

This paper raises the estimated savings if Western Australian employers, acknowledging legal responsibility, undertook more extensive road safety training for employees. The paper argues that if employers acted within the spirit of section 19 of the Occupational Health Safety and Welfare Act, providing a holistic approach to employee driver training, there would be a much greater likelihood of a reduction in the annual cost of work related road crashes, resulting in a happier workforce and a better bottom line for employers. The paper proceeds on the basis that courts will tend to find employers have a duty to implement a holistic approach to employee driver training. The paper highlights dealing with fatigue as one aspect of the holistic approach and cites as an example the BHP Road Safety Challenge. (Author/publisher) For the covering entry of this conference, please see ITRD abstract no. E205827.