On August 16, 2024, CLOCS-A (by CILT Australia) presented at Sydney Metro Safety Industry Forum on the importance of Construction and Logistics Safety especially in relation to Heavy construction vehicles. NSW’s Carmel Soccorsi showed combined data for construction and gravel carrying vehicles had the highest involvement in fatal and serious injuries being some 27.5% of heavy vehicles incidents in NSW over the 10-year period to 2022. This statistic certainly underpinned the need for a CLOCS-A standard.
BINGO’s National Transport Compliance Manager Matthew Collaros presented at the Sydney Metro Industry Safety Forum, sharing with participants BINGO’s approach to heavy vehicle safety and compliance. With a fleet of over 440 trucks and approximately 470 heavy vehicle drivers on our roads, BINGO is consistently looking at ways to improve industry standards in protecting our drivers and the community. Their number of truck and driver audits have increased year on year, and we aspire to achieve Zero Harm across all parts of our operation.
Daniel Deveney-Kelly also attended and focussed his presentation on Heavy Vehicle Safety on behalf of the Gamuda Australia Laing O’Rourke consortium who are delivering the Sydney Metro West – Western Tunnelling Package (WTP). In his presentation, “Improving Heavy Vehicle Safety with Technology Integration”, Daniel focused on how they had implemented technology-enabled solutions to drive safety and productivity improvements across the organisation and how they were using AI to improve the safety aspects of the technology.
Scott Knowles from NHVR presented National Heavy Vehicle Regulator updates, Ken Edwards from Acciona Ferrovial presented Chain of Responsibility focussing on the Central Tunnelling Project Safety Management System. Divinia Eather from Eather Transport focussed her presentation on Driving a Safety-first Culture, followed by CLOCS-A, Select Plant Australia and Bingo industries. Melissa Weller from Healthy Heads in Trucks and Sheds focussed her presentation on Supporting Healthy Heads and thriving workplaces in Transport and Warehouse and Logistics. Holly Fletcher from Sydney Metro concluded with the Metro Milestones: Looking Forward, Looking Back.
How CLOCS-A sits with other current certifications was of interest as were existing non-compliance issues such as: lack of compliance to mass, load restraint impacting load shift and loss, road worthiness, and problems with recording trip details.
The day leant itself to be highly informative to both construction companies and construction transport operators, as well as for potential auditors and attending regulators. Congratulations go to the Sydney Metro organizers for this step in promoting the CLOCS-A standard.