In Australia, a large part of both the daily travel task and road trauma is connected with work. Most occupational deaths involve vehicles. On 10 August 2001, the committee, together with Queensland Transport, the Department of Industrial Relations and the Queensland University of Technology's Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety - Queensland (CARRS-Q), co-hosted a symposium to examine this area of the road toll and the various fleet safety measures to address it. The symposium's 135 delegates reviewed recent research into the extent of work-related road trauma in Australia, the costs of this trauma and how it can best be prevented or reduced. They also considered how governments, employers and vehicle fleet managers are working to address the problems. This report presents an overview of the papers and the open discussions at the symposium. The report also makes three recommendations for the state government to implement and identifies areas that warrant further work and research. (Author/publisher)
Samenvatting