Maintaining standards

Key messages

Skill and knowledge can deteriorate over time if good practice is not reinforced. Your workplace needs systems in place that will:

• regularly assess your workers' ability to drive safely;
• maintain agreed fitness standards; and
• respond to the changing needs of individuals.

Supervision: questions to ask

• Who will supervise each worker?
• How will the worker be supervised?
• Who will the supervisor report to?

For further information about supervision and workplace transport safety performance download Measuring Workplace Transport Safety Performance [PDF 817KB]

Maintaining standards

To maintain standards, you need management systems in place that include:

• periodic fitness assessments;
• monitoring sick absences;
• line management supervision
• accurate accident and near-miss reporting

Your company policy and procedure should answer these questions:

• What fitness standards do you need to maintain?
• When – and how often – will you check your workers' physical and mental fitness to drive or operate the vehicle for which they were originally employed?
• How will you decide is a worker is no longer fit to drive or operate that vehicle?
• If this point is reached, what action will you take?