Frequently Asked Questions

TruckSafe has a minimum set of requirements that must be met in order to be accredited. These requirements are grouped within components that include safety and compliance, risk management, training, assurance, and more.

TruckSafe accreditation helps to promote a safety culture within your business as it is not cost driven. TruckSafe is about having the right systems in place to promote a safe working environment through regular vehicle maintenance, ongoing risk assessment, training, and the welfare of employees.

Businesses of all sizes, tasks and sectors can use the TruckSafe system. Businesses choose TruckSafe for a variety of reasons – operational efficiency and system management, insurance and compliance needs, customer driven requirements or just to guide and support their business during either consolidation and/or expansion periods. A business is as good as the foundation it rests upon – TruckSafe provides a good foundation for quality and safety standards.

No problem! TruckSafe is suitable for any size business, be it a large corporation or a small mum-and-dad operation. Even more important for single operators, it gives them the structure and systems that the larger companies have. When something goes wrong the authorities don’t discriminate between larger and smaller operators.

Through the implementation of the TruckSafe system, your business will benefit from a more structured environment. TruckSafe sets a standard where everyone from the owner down must lift their standards to perform to a certain level.

TruckSafe businesses are regarded as the best in the industry which helps when working with other companies – they can be assured that a TruckSafe accredited member will have superior standards set in place. Being a TruckSafe member can potentially put your business in front of another when tendering for a contract.

Being accredited with TruckSafe will help to ensure that your business has the right systems in place to minimise any breaches under Chain of Responsibility laws. Be aware though, that your business is only one link in the supply chain, and that breaches from other businesses in the chain may have an effect on you.

To help minimise this even further, it is strongly encouraged that any contractors you engage also be TruckSafe accredited to maintain the high level of compliance that you have set with your business.

For our members we have a members access area here on the website that contains sample policies & procedures, sample manuals, along with forms and guides. Additional information is being added to members access all the time. Additionally we can refer you to a consultant that will be able to set the TruckSafe system up in your organisation. These consultants are independent of TruckSafe and will charge a fee for this service.

This is a tough question to answer because it depends on:

a) what you already have in place and documented; and

b) what resources you have to focus on it.

General estimates show most members have needed a few months to plan, document, train and check their systems before applying for an entry audit. However, if you already have almost everything in place or are already using a risk-based approach, the whole process can be done in a matter of weeks.

Once your system is in place, you will need someone to capture the data (or tracking evidence) and you will also need to run an internal review program to make sure everything is operating as you expected. If you find any issues, you can get them corrected along the way.

These systems will take some time out of your day / week / month end processes. Most small organisations are able to incorporate these tasks within the existing administrative and operational roles. Larger organisations will have dedicated resources. There are also some technology systems that can further refine and reduce the administrative tasks for data collection.