Work will soon commence on the IPWEA Fleet Maintenance Safe Practice Guide.
Compliance with Health and Safety obligations is a complex and challenging area for fleet managers. At its recent meeting the IPWEA Systems Plus Panel identified the need for guidance in meeting health and safety obligations for fleet maintenance operations. It was considered that an industry based Fleet Maintenance Safe Practice Guide would provide benefits in terms of efficiency and in demonstrating best practice.
The objective of the Guide is to provide a nationally applicable resource to assist fleet managers meet the requirement for safe work practices in fleet maintenance and workshop operations. In the first instance the Guide would focus on workshop operations (routine or generic workshop activities).
The requirement for employers to provide a safe workplace is inherent in national and state health and safety legislation. In a fleet context, the Fleet Manager, Workshop Supervisor and workshop staff all have responsibilities for legislative compliance.
The objective of the Guide is to provide a nationally applicable resource to assist fleet managers meet the requirement for safe work practices in fleet maintenance and workshop operations.
The guide will cover:
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Workshop Operations
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Fleet Maintenance (including field work)
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Environmental issues
It is planned to launch the Guide in time for the November 2014 series of the IPWEA Plant & Vehicle Professional Development workshops.The project manager is Rob Wilson from 4C Management Solutions.
Anyone interested in providing input into the guide should contact Ross Moody on 0417955394 or email ross.moody@ipwea.org
The IPWEA National Fleet Management Panel at the annual planning meeting in Melbourne. Members of the panel include left to right standing Murray Percasky (WA), Andrew Railz (QLD), Steven Colliver (NSW), Mark Mills (NSW), Greg Fannon (TAS) and left to right sitting Trevor Wicks (VIC), Rob Wilson (guest VIC), Warren Mashford (QLD) and Grant Andrews (Uniqco).