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The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) is the world’s leading organization that prepares and publishes International Standards for all electrical, electronic and related technologies.
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The IEC is one of three global sister organizations (IEC, ISO, ITU) that develop International Standards for the world.
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This document provides an overview of the methods used to conduct a literature review on contraceptive stockouts. Published literature was identified through searches of PubMed, JSTOR and Google Scholar. Grey literature was identified through Google searches and reviews of organizational websites. The purpose of the review was to summarize existing data on the impact of contraceptive stockouts and inform research and advocacy efforts. Key findings of the literature review are summarized in the executive summary.
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4. Review controls - ensure controls are working as planned.
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- Requirements for first aid equipment, facilities, signage, and training of first aiders.
- Process for regularly reviewing first aid arrangements as workplace circumstances change.
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3. Table of
Contents
This eBook 4
Prevent Death in your Fleet 5
Introduction 7
Mobile Workers Included 8
Reasonably Practicable 9
How you can Comply 10
Your eyes Everywhere 11
Good for Business too 13
Summary 15
About Navman Wireless 16
Why Navman Wireless 17
4. This is designed to help you understand and comply with
both your corporate and personal obligations for the
health and safety of those mobile workers using vehicles
for your workplace.
It provides an overview of the Work Health and Safety Act
2011 (WHS Act), the penalties that can apply (including
up to 5 years jail) and the specific actions you can take
to prove your compliance should you ever be inspected,
audited or placed before the courts.
And remember, if you go to work, then you have
a duty of care.
This is no longer an issue for the boss alone. With the
legislation now well in place, it’s clear that business
owners, managers, workers, suppliers, and contractors
all have a duty of care under the WHS Act and need to
understand their legal obligations completely.
Helping you stay
in business, and
inside the law.
This
eBook
Specifically, the WHS Act states that regard must be had
to the principle that workers and other persons should be
given the highest level of protection against harm to their
health, safety and welfare from hazards and risks arising
from work as is reasonably practicable.
So you need to act now to put in place any processes,
technology or reporting methods that would demonstrate
you’ve taken such reasonably practicable action, including
that for your mobile workforce.
There’s no doubt the legislative landscape is shifting,
imposing more responsibility on everyone, and the risk of
heavier penalties. Read on to see how you can protect your
organisation, yourself, and the people you work with, from
both workplace risks and hazards, and criminal penalty.
This eBook is focused on helping anyone who is even remotely responsible for a fleet of workplace vehicles
and the people who use them. You might work in or own a courier company, freight business, public
transport organisation, or simply have sales and service people in your cars and trucks delivering advice,
goods or support day in and day out.
This is for you.
4
5. Prevent
Death in
your Fleet
Over the eight years from 2003 – 2011, one-third of worker fatalities arose from injuries sustained in a vehicle
incident on a public road (Traffic incident) and one-third in other incidents involving a vehicle but not on
a public road (Non-traffic vehicle incident). Figure 1 shows that at different points in time each of these
categories have recorded the highest number of fatalities.
Two-thirds of
workplace fatalities
in Australia
involve a vehicle.
Figure 1 Worker fatalities: number by traffic incident status,
2003–04 to 2010–11
Further to this, Machinery Operators and Drivers account
for the largest group of fatalities although encouragingly,
this percentage is trending downward as fleets become
better managed.
Source: Safe Work Australia.
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6. 11x
Average
rate
The Road Freight Transport
industry continues to endure the
highest workplace fatality rates of
all industries at 20.50 deaths per
100,000 workers. This is 11 x the
rate of all other industries.
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7. Intro
duction
If you go to work,
then you must
comply.
The Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (WHS Act) replaces the OHS of most states and is based on the core
principle that workers and other persons should be given the highest level of protection as is reasonably
practical against harm to their health, safety and welfare from hazards and risks arising from work. To
strengthen compliance, the WHS Act now contains three critical implications for anyone who goes to work:
1. The range of people who are liable has been
expanded.
Almost everyone in the workplace is now responsible
for the health and safety of co-workers. Officially,
this includes any person conducting a business or
undertaking (PCBU), designer, manufacturer, importer,
supplier, installer of products or plant used at work
(upstream duty holders), an officer of the organisation,
and all workers. Everyone has a duty of care and there
are no excuses for turning backs or delaying initiatives
that could improve health and safety in the workplace
(see next point).
2. The definition of what a workplace is has been
expanded.
Now the workplace includes “anyplacewherea
workergoesorislikelytobewhileworkiscarriedout
forabusinessorundertaking.Thismayincludeoffices,
factories,shops,constructionsites,vehicles,ships,aircraft
orothermobilestructuresonlandorwater.”
3. The severity of penalties has been expanded and
includes custodial sentences.
Now an individual business owner, manager, company
officer, or worker can be fined up to $600,000 or serve up
to 5 years in jail for a Category 1 breach of the WHS Act.
Corporate entities can be fined anywhere from $500,000
to $3,000,000.
Every person who goes to work must now be aware
of the WHS Act. For fleet managers, you must do
whatever you can to demonstrate you’ve taken
‘reasonably practicable’ means to protect the health
and safety of the your mobile workers.
Find out what it means to have a
mobile workforce with this legislation.
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8. Mobile
Workers
Included
Leaving the
premises, does
not mean leaving
your care.
The WHS Act 2011 is the most recent enactment of a long line of expanding obligations for the health and
safety of the people in your workplace – including mobile workers.
The first major shift came with chain of responsibility
provisions in 2003. These regulations made anybody
in control of a transport operation, not just the driver,
responsible for breaches of road laws.
In 2008, additional chain of responsibility provisions
made employers and business operators liable for
preventing driver fatigue. Until this point, authorities
had only been able to pursue truck drivers or operators,
but this regulation gave them the power to investigate
along the chain of command to hold business owners
accountable.
This shift towards making businesses responsible for
driver safety was mirrored in state-based occupational
health and safety (OHS) legislation. While all Australian
states had their own OHS legislation in place, the focus
was broadly similar.
Now, the WHS Act 2011 is creating a national OHS
standard, and importantly, imposes a significant ‘duty
of care’ on everyone to be able to demonstrate there
have been ‘reasonably practicable’ means to protect
the health and safety of your people, including your
mobile workforce.
So let’s see what it is to be
‘reasonably practicable’.
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9. Reasonably
Practicable
It’s what you must do
to avoid penalty.
The term ‘reasonably practicable’ means an action or investment that could reasonably be performed
at a particular time to ensure that health and safety measures are installed in your workplace.
You need to weigh up the likelihood of a hazard or risk
occurring, the degree of harm that could come for such
a risk or hazard, what the person involved ought to know
about those risks or hazards, and the cost and availability
of ways to eliminate or minimise the same risks or hazards.
Ifweapplythistoyourmobileworkforce,thenweclearly
know there are great risks and hazards at play including the
potential for vehicle failure, poor driver behaviour (such as
speeding, swerving, overtaking dangerously or not taking
breaks), other driver behaviour, road rage, dangerous road
conditions, and fatigue.
So, what actions could you take to mitigate
these risks and hazards:
• Ensure monitoring and management of vehicle use
and driver behaviour
• Ensure the provision of well maintained safe vehicles
• Ensure the provision of safe systems and
expectations of work practices in the vehicle
• Ensure processes to monitor and correct any
dangerous driver attitudes
• Provide information, training, instruction and
supervision to protect employees from risks to their
health and safety.
Specially, read on to see how
you achieve these outcomes.
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10. How you
canComply
Take real action to
staylegal,andstaysafe.
So what simple and practical action could you take right now to ensure you and your organisation comply
with the WHS Act, while truly protecting the health and safety of your mobile workers?
Well, you can put them in safe and well-serviced vehicles.
You can ask them to drive more carefully and comply with all
road rules. Plus, you can ask them to take their breaks, take
the safest routes, and take care wherever they go.
However, you will only ever have their word
for it – unless you take a more affirmative
approach by investing in a GPS Fleet
Management solution.
With this relatively small investment, you’ll be taking a
practical step to the monitoring and management of your
vehicle fleet and driver behaviour. In this way, you are
truly taking active steps to manage the health and safety
of your mobile workforce, whether in on-road vehicles, or
heavy machinery.
So what is a GPS Fleet
Management solution?
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11. Just because people leave the building, does not mean they should leave your sight. A GPS Fleet
Management solution ensures you stay in touch with everything that’s happening when your people hit
the road. It will help you implement and monitor policies around mobile workforce safety, track employee
behaviour and vehicle conditions in real time, and take proactive measures to remedy any risks or hazards.
Your eyes,
Everywhere
Take control of safety
with a GPS Fleet
Management Solution.
Taking such action will not only help protect the people
in your workplace, but also go a long way towards
proving you comply with the WHS Act in taking reasonably
practicable steps to provide and monitor a safe workplace
– even when mobile.
Remember,theWHSActdoesnotjustrequire
businesses to set in place policies around
fleet safety, it also asks you to proactively
monitor compliance with these policies.
Here’showaGPSFleetManagementsolutionwillhelp:
Know
their location
For businesses with a mobile workforce, ‘monitoring
workplace conditions’ means being able to track the
safety conditions and status of vehicles and drivers at all
times. A GPS Fleet Management solution lets you locate
an employee in their vehicles to within four metres.
This means you can track drivers and vehicles wherever
they go. Even where network coverage is poor,
managers can still track an employee’s last recorded
vehicle location, something that reliance on mobile
phones alone cannot provide. In instances of reduced
network coverage, managers can still track an employee’s
last recorded vehicle location, something that reliance
on mobile phones alone cannot provide.
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12. 2. 4.
5.
Provide
safe vehicles
When it comes to monitoring and providing a safe
mobile workplace, you must ensure your vehicles are
well maintained and fit for purpose. This obligation
also extends to any plant and equipment stored in
or on the vehicles.
Fleet tracking technology enables businesses to set
up flags and automatic alerts when vehicles and
equipment are due for maintenance, based on dates,
performance, mileage or engine hours.
These alerts can be set up in advance to ensure
fleet managers have the time to call the vehicle or
equipment in for punctual maintenance. Service
records can also be kept online including dates and
costs against each vehicle.
Prevent
driver fatigue
Australian fleets often transport goods over long
distances, travelling through remote areas at night.
This is particularly true of the mining, communications,
freight and construction industries where a single job
can constitute days of driving across this great land.
With this, you have a proactive duty to manage driver
journeys and ensure they have sufficient rest to prevent
driver fatigue. Fleet tracking enables you to monitor the
entire workday for an individual driver including time
spent driving, loading and stationary. With Navman
Wireless, it’s all done using a personal identification
number (PIN) which is required to turn the ignition on
and off, perfect for when a driver uses multiple vehicles.
Receive
accident alerts
The more advanced solutions monitor G-force giro
and send an automated signal to your organisation on
impact in case the driver cannot make contact. This
system allows fleet managers to take remedial action
and alert emergency services immediately in the case
of an accident.
Track
speeding
Policies alone may not be enough to encourage
employees to change their behaviour. However, fleet
management technologies enable businesses to
monitor and remedy any unacceptable behaviour
such as speeding.
These solutions also enable businesses to build
ongoing records around driver compliance to health
and safety policies. You can then track and manage
performance, build health and safety issues into KPIs,
counsel employees using objective statistics around
their driving behaviour, and improve attitude toward
these important issues.
Replay-a-Day
With Navman Wireless you can even replay-
a-day to see how assets were used, what
speeds were produced and how much
wasted idling took place.
3.
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13. A GPS Fleet Management solution is not only good for the heath and safety of your mobile workforce, it’s
good for your business health too. The ability to improve the way you track and manage your mobile fleet
assets will improve customer service, enhance asset efficiency, reduce costs, and ultimately put more
dollars onto the bottom line.
Good for
Businesstoo
Protects your people,
and your business.
Here are just 5 ways your business benefits:
1. Improve asset utilisation
Manage the overall performance of street vehicles and heavy
equipment assets over their entire life cycle, including job
costing, hours worked, maintenance required and more.
The Navman Wireless solution goes a step further with more
than 40 reports to help you make better decisions around
asset utilisation, lease or buy options, route selection,
maintenance efficiency and much more.
2. Reduce your carbon footprint
Reduce your carbon footprint by reducing your fuel
consumption through a reduction in excessive idling,
curbing excessive speed, controlling unauthorised vehicle
use, and optimising transport routes. You can even reduce
the consumption of paper with the electronic reporting and
timesheets found in most GPS Fleet Management solutions.
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14. 3. Improve maintenance efficiency
Keep your vehicle fleet in safe and efficient condition
with optimal preventative maintenance practices and
by identifying mechanical issues before they cause
safety concerns and downtime. A poorly serviced engine
uses up to 50% more fuel, so it makes sense to manage
maintenance schedules properly.
4. Reduce overtime
Hold the line on overtime costs by verifying timesheets with
accurate, tamper-proof information rather than relying on
self-reported data alone. GPS Fleet Management will also
allow you to build a database of information over time that
can help you streamline and optimise routes for maximum
efficiency whether going across town or across the country.
Set up Geofences around driver homes,
customer sites and other locations to
determine precise start and stop times.
5. Reduce downtime
There’s no good business outcome in having your vehicles
off the road. So keep them and the people inside them
moving safely and efficiently by closely monitoring all
elements of vehicle performance. It will help you reduce
wear and tear and stay ahead of large repairs to reduce
overall maintenance cycles by up to 50%.
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15. You simply cannot afford to avoid or ignore your duty of care as legislated under the Workplace Health and
Safety Act 211. Prosecutions are now run in the District Court, not the Industrial Relations Commission, and
as you read earlier, the penalties are significant and can include a custodial sentence.
Summary
It is a criminal offence.
Take action now.
A Category 1 offence involves ‘reckless conduct’ that
exposes someone to a risk of death or serious injury or
illness. It is the most serious offence. This might be for a
manager who encourages a driver to continue on despite
the fact they know the brakes are seriously worn and at
some risk of failure.
A Category 2 offence is committed where a person has a
health and safety duty under Part 2 of the Work Health and
Safety Act 2011, failed to comply with that duty, and that
failure exposed a person to a risk of death or serious injury or
illness. An example is where a manager knew of a potentially
safer route however did not enforce it due to the efficiencies
gained of the more dangerous route.
A Category 3 offence is committed where the person has
a health and safety duty under Part 2 of the Work Health
and Safety Act 2011 and fails to comply with that duty. A
manager fails in their duty of care to a worker who has been
bullied by other drivers and not taking any action that would
have been reasonable and practicable to prevent what, in
the circumstances, was a foreseeable risk of an ongoing
psychiatric condition.
Type Order
Information
Corporation
Individual as PCBU
or officer
Individual as worker
or other
Category 1 $3 million
$600 000, five years
in jail or both
$300 000, five years
in jail or both
Category 1 $1.5 million $300 000 $150 000
Category 1 $500 000 $100 000 $50 000
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16. Navman Wireless is a global leader in the GPS-based Fleet Management solutions industry. Our tracking,
two-way messaging and integrated satellite navigation systems are improving the productivity, safety and
profits of more than 14,000 organisations around the world with over 175,000 vehicles under management.
About
Navman Wireless fleet tracking customers include local
councils, construction companies, transport companies
and other service companies such has trade supplies,
equipment hire and logistics companies.
In fact, fleet tracking stretches across any
industry with a company-owned fleet.
Our fleet-tracking solutions help these customers derive
significant cost savings from reduced fuel usage, less
vehicle wear and tear and lower maintenance costs.
In addition, Navman Wireless systems provide significant
dispatch, navigation, operating efficiencies and better
communications with every vehicle in the fleet for
improved efficiency and compliance with government
regulations including the Work Health and Safety Act 2011.
Navman Wireless has a broad portfolio of
fleet-management products based on GPS
technology including:
Qube:
The central GPS communication modem and vehicle
tracking base
Qtanium:
The most rugged and durable tracking device on the
market, designed specifically for heavy duty usage
Mobile Data Terminal:
A simple in-vehicle messaging terminal that facilitates
easy and affordable two-way communication
M-Nav:
A vehicle-based messaging and navigation solution
that connects to Qube for office-to-dashboard,
two-way messaging
OnlineAVL2 Fleet Management:
Fully integrated software for real-time control and
management of a mobile workforce and fleet that can
improve productivity and profitability. The system also
provides a full reporting suite with accurate, dynamic
reports whenever and wherever they are needed.
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17. Why
The decision to invest in a fleet-tracking system is not to be taken lightly; nor is the decision about who to
work with. You have dozens of fleet-tracking providers to choose from, so how is Navman Wireless different
and why are we the right choice?
1. Navman Wireless drives the highest quality in
the industry
Our solutions use the highest quality hardware and
software. Telstra Next G® and the Iridium Satellite
Communications network provide the backbone to our
communications network and ensure you stay in touch
with your fleet even when they move into the most
remote locations. Our devices also boast the highest
reliability rate in the industry so you won’t have to worry
about equipment issues hampering your ability to keep
track of you fleet and their safety.
2. Navman Wireless are 100% focused on business
Our research and development team spends its time
coming up with new and better ways for businesses to
gather and use information. This means that all of our
products are commercial-grade and include business
features like truck routing - right out of the box. Further,
we understand how crucial our solution can be to your
business, so we have a network of authorised dealers
and installers nationwide to support you.
3. Navman Wireless has extensive scale and experience
We have been in the GPS-based Fleet Management
industry from inception. Since then, our organisation
has grown to serve customers beyond Australia and
New Zealand. The organisation is now a global company
tracking over 175,000 vehicles across more than 14,000
organisations on five continents.
This makes Navman Wireless one of the largest
fleetandassetmanagementprovidersintheworld.
4. Navman Wireless has the right solution for
your business
Navman Wireless can help your business whether you
have 10 or 1,010 vehicles in your fleet. We offer both
standard and heavy-duty tracking hardware in addition
to messaging and navigation devices – and even a mobile
version of our award-winning OnlineAVL2 software platform.
So whether you’re starting out, refreshing a management
system, or looking to grow your fleet– we can help you.
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18. A national network of accredited installers and authorised
dealers are available to support you with your solution
selection and deployment, so you can be sure of delivery
equal to our rigorous world-class standards.
5. Navman Wireless has the right global partnerships
As a global Certified Partner with Microsoft, we’re able
to develop solutions that are flexible and familiar to most
business environments. This industry-standard approach
ensures an efficient pathway to bridge the gap between
your business demands and your technical capability.
Google leads the way in mapping the planet. That’s why
we’ve leveraged Google Maps API Premier to develop
incredibly productive ways of helping you manage your
fleet. Take Google Street View for example. It allows
dispatchers to zoom, rotate and pan through ground-
level street photos and help drivers navigate complex
locations including parking lots, delivery docks and
building doors when they arrive at their assigned site.
It’s Google helping us help you.
Our long-term partnership with Telstra means we deliver
using the number one network in Australia – without
compromise. Plus, if your business operates in remote
areas, then our partnership with Iridium enables you to
continue managing your fleet no matter where they travel.
6. Navman Wireless supports you into the future
Your solution only ever gets better with Navman
Wireless. Our continual improvement program means
you can receive software updates approximately every
90-days. These are backward-compatible for immediate
implementation and every upgrade includes free training.
It means you can jump in now and implement your
solution knowing your investment is protected into
the future. And when you need help, it’s good to know
that Navman Wireless has the most extensive Service
Level Agreements in the industry to ensure we’re there
whenever you need us.
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