1. State of play on legislation and standards in Europe and importance of skilled professionals to ensure compliance with safe loading & cargo securing:
Vilnius, November 29th, 2012
Patrick Philipp
Head - IRU Academy
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2. I - Current Situation No Regulation
Several standards - European Best Practices Guidelines, IMO / ILO / UNECE Guidelines, CEN Standard :2010 and national standards, such as VDI 2700
Discriminatory Enforcement
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3. Cargo Securing Standards
IMO/ILO/UN ECE
(2001)
Rev prEN
(Jan 2009) EN
(Dec 2003)
Standard adopted at EU
Level in April 2010 and
Implemented on May
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4. Cargo Securing – EN Standards
EVS-EN :2010
Load restraining on road vehicles - Safety - Part 1: Calculation of securing forces
 EVS-EN :2001
Load restraint assemblies on road vehicles - Safety - Part 2: Web lashing made from man-made fibres
  EVS-EN :2001
Load restraint assemblies on road vehicles - Safety - Part 3: Lashing chains
  EVS-EN :2004
Load restraint assemblies on road vehicles - Safety - Part 4: Lashing steel wire ropes
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5. Harmonised regulations / standards
II - What does the road transport industry need to ensure efficient trade?
Harmonised regulations / standards
Legal liability for all persons involved in the freight chain
Load securing based on CEN Standard :2010, including for ADR transport.
Standardisation of technical devices for load securing, such as anchor points, blocking devices on freight vehicles based on CEN standard 12642
Harmonised regulations for different modes of transport (maritime, rail, road) to facilitate and promote co-modality
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6. Harmonised Enforcement
= No discrimination
= No physical trade barriers
Harmonised Rules
…for roadside checks
…for penalties for infringements
Should be based on harmonised regulations/standards
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7. III – IRU Actions
The IRU monitors and informs its Members about the changing situation
The IRU requires its Members to lobby their authorities to support, implement and apply the CEN Standard
The IRU surveys different enforcement methods and sanctions
The IRU develops training programmes and best practices (IRU Academy)
IRU position:
The IRU and its Members support the revised EN Standard as it ensures optimum conditions for all parties involved in a transport chain concerning the lashing of cargoes.
Every person responsible for the vehicle loading process, in other words both the vehicle driver and the loading staff in the transport industry, are required to comply with these basic safety regulations.
Vehicles should be used so that the technical gross vehicle weight is never exceeded and the body structure needs to meet safety requirements.
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8. III – IRU Actions
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9. Worldwide Excellence in Road Transport Training
The objective of the IRU Academy, the training arm of the IRU is to develop and disseminate high quality training programmes that will help to provide the necessary knowledge and skills to the professional active in the road transport industry.
(Our role as Road Transport Training Professionals is key in transferring the knowledge and the skills to road users. In order to ensure that this endeavor is successful, an efficient transfer mechanism of competence development relying on high level and harmonized training capabilities is extremely important. )
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10. IRU Academy Objectives
Sustainable Development
Safety
Compliance
Performance
We speak here about:
Fatality decrease
Laws & regulations
Improved competitiveness
Environment and social development

11. Resulting in loss of Revenues
Compliance
Not complying with the rules will lead to fines and a negative impact on your reputation!
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12. Performance
Improving safety record - Identifying and manage “risk” for the employees
Improving regulatory compliance
Improving efficiency
Increasing employee and customer satisfaction
Increasing competitiveness
In today's environment not being able to adapt in order to effectively deal with change doesn’t give a very positive outlook. It has become essential to be constantly adapting and encapsulating the changes incurred by legislative, technology or market changes.
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13. Safety Damages to: The Population The Economy The Environment
In an industry where most companies are small businesses, aside the cost on human being directly involved in a tragedy and the impact on their relatives, most businesses will collapse and therefore any incident or accident will have large collateral damages.
Source: Centre d’Estudis del Risc Tecnològic (CERTEC), Department of Chemical Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Diagonal 647, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
A study of 1932 accidents that occurred during the transport of hazardous substances by road and rail from the beginning of the 20th century to July 2004 was carried out. The results obtained show an increase in the frequency of accidents over time. More than half of the accidents happened on roads (63%). The most frequent accidents were releases (78%), followed by fires (28%), explosions (14%) and gas clouds (6%). The various causes of the accidents, the type of substance involved and the consequences for the population (number of people killed, injured or evacuated) were also analysed. Among the diverse measures taken to improve this situation, the training of professional people involved in transportation seems to be of major importance.
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According to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labour Statistics (BLS), the workers most likely to be killed at work aren't the ones donning bullet-proof vests to capture criminals or saving victims from fire-engulfed buildings. Instead, the workers most likely to die on the job are the ones who help provide us with our daily needs like a safe home, food and electricity.
Truck drivers transport goods including cars and livestock, and driver/sales workers deliver and sell their firm’s products over established routes. Both groups spend the majority of their time on the road, putting them at high risk of highway vehicle crashes.
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers Fatalities: 27.6 per 100,000 employed Truck driver median pay: $33,520 Driver/sales worker median pay: $20,090

14. IRU Commitment Road Safety – Highest Priority
The IRU supports all measures that improve road safety if
they effectively target the main causes of accidents involving trucks.
Our involvement in the EU Road Safety Charter as well as the IRU Road Safety Charter, signed during the IRU World Congress in Yokohama in 2004 and which is progressively implemented by numerous transport companies, has shown our commitment to promote a road safety culture in our industry and to implement various road safety tools, such as the IRU Taxi, Coach and Truck Driver Check Lists.
While road transport, like every transport mode and transport activity, is subject to human error and technical failure, it must be underlined that the involvement of a commercial vehicle in an accident in no way implies automatically that it is the cause of the accident. Today, professionally driven commercial vehicles are involved in fewer accidents per km travelled than any other vehicles.
Despite these positive developments, the road transport sector is increasingly confronted with ever new restrictive regulations where their effectiveness is rarely taken into consideration. It seems that there is a tendency to prefer the implementation of new restrictions and limitations, rather to develop true professionalism and a higher sense of responsibilities among the fleet operators, their drivers and the shippers.
The IRU position has always been to support all measures that improve road safety if they are effective and target the main of accidents involving trucks. To identify these main cause the European Commission and the IRU have commissioned the scientific European Truck Accident Causation Study (ETAC). 14

15. Main Cause: The Human Factor
Investigation of 624 accidents showed the main cause of the accident is human error
The ETAC study results show that human error, whether by the truck driver or another road user, is the main cause of 85,2 % of accidents. However, among accidents linked to the human factor, 75% are caused by other road user versus 25% by the truck driver.
Other factors such as technical failures, infrastructure conditions and weather conditions comparatively play a minor role, representing 5,3%, 5,1% and 4,4% respectively of the principal causes of accidents.
When IRU shared this finding with the European Commission their logic comment was that with this in mind, the EU policy should mainly target the human factor efficiently.
However, from the 85.2% linked to human error, 75% were caused by other road users!
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17. IRU Academy Programmes
Competence
Compliance
The objective of the IRU Academy is to work against the values of harmonisation, standardisation, coordination and cooperation and to provide high level harmonised quality training programmes and the recognition to road transport professionals through the obtainment of IRU Academy Diplomas and Certificates which helps them to promote their skills and achievements and differentiate themselves in an industry which is more and more competitive.
Originally the IRU Academy launched one programme in 1999 – The CPC Manager programme based on the EC directive EC98/76. Today the IRU Academy manages a portfolio of training programmes both in terms of regional and subject matter scope.
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18. Safe Loading & Cargo Securing
Highly interactive programme with simulations based on the latest EU CEN standard
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19. Программы Академии IRU Безопасная погрузка и крепление груза
В центре внимания
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20. IRU Academy Interactive Programme on Safe Loading and Cargo Securing
Interactive simulation environment
Specific and practical advices
Latest IRU Academy programmes developed to address key Industry concerns of road safety and professionalism
Latest International Reference Standard
CEN :2010
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21. IRU Academy Checklist on Safe Loading and Cargo Securing
Multilingual best practices with
key tips for safe and
Secure cargo transport
Free download from:
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22. IV - Conclusion
The road transport industry needs a harmonised framework in order to ensure that safe loading and cargo securing is applied throughout Europe, CIS countries and beyond to increase road safety on a level playing field. The road transport industry urges the European Commission and CIS competent authorities to address this issue through harmonised regulation.
Level playing field: all transport operations are conducted in the same way and under the same rules + all people involved in the transport chain share the liability.
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