Plant & Vehicle Management Manual

Australia’s most comprehensive guide for fleet managers. First developed by IPWEA in 2004, the manual has been substantially revised to address current issues regarding the fleet industry.

Plant & Vehicle Maintenance Safe Practice Guide

Developed with input from practicing Fleet Managers, the Safe Practice Guide provides a practical approach to mechanical workshop and mechanical maintenance health and safety.

Practice Notes: Preamble Document

Practice Note 1: Footpaths & Cycleways

Footpaths and cycleways play an important role in the overall transport and recreational network.

Practice Notes 2: Kerb & Channel

Provide a number of functions for the road and the road drainage.

Practice Note 5: Stormwater Drainage

Assist practitioners in applying best practice for Asset Management, Condition Assessment and Performance Inspection for various asset classes.

Practice Note 6: Long-term Financial Planning

Enable decision makers to be properly informed now and into the future ensuring equity and informed prioritisation so that the organisation can deliver its variety of services to a desired, affordable and sustainable level.

Practice Note 7: Water Supply & Sewerage

An appreciation of how the process sits within the overall framework of good asset management will aid in successful outcomes.

Practice Note 9: Roads Pavement (Visual Assessment Code) Suite

The Suite of Guidelines provide a process for carrying out visual assessment of pavement defects as a basis for assessing the condition of Road Pavement assets and to assist in determining the most appropriate treatment for maintaining the desired level of service for these assets.

Practice Note 10.1: Inventories, Condition & Performance Assessment

It includes an update and replacement of the original “PRAMS” condition grading guideline, providing specific descriptions of how to assess a range of common park assets.

Practice Note 10.2: Renewal Planning, Valuation and Asset Management Plans

This Parks Management Practice Note provides practical advice and guidance to assist parks management practitioners in the application of asset management practices.

Practice Note 10.4: Service Delivery

The subject of this Practice Note is publicly accessible parks, open space and natural areas which are generally defined as any land that is managed for the purposes of public recreation, conservation, amenity or landscape enhancement.

Practice Note 10.5: Planning

Practice Note 10.5 is designed to provide practical, parks specific planning advice and guidance. It uses best practice principles combined with industry examples to implement parks planning tasks.

Practice Note 10.6: Trails, Tracks and Paths

It is intended that these guidelines be applicable for typical local and State governments, parks agencies, roading agencies, tertiary institutions, trusts and other organisations responsible for planning and managing publicly accessible trails, tracks and paths.

Practice Note 12: Useful Life of Infrastructure

The objective of the Practice Note is to provide practitioners with the necessary principles and procedures to understand how useful life is used in asset management and financial management and reporting of infrastructure assets.

Practice Note 12.1: Climate Change Impacts on the Useful Life of Infrastructure

The purpose of this Practice Note 12.1 is to provide the necessary information and instruction to ensure that climate change impacts are incorporated into estimates of asset useful life.

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Practice Note 12.2: Climate Resilient Materials for Infrastructure Assets

This Practice Note acts as an Addendum to Practice Note 12.1 and provides support to finance and asset managers, designers and engineers who are responsible for making decisions on the most climate resilient materials and treatments to use for those assets that have been identified as vulnerable because of their remaining useful life, type and location.

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