1. CHAIN OF RESPONSIBILITY
The role and responsibilities of sales loader drivers, weighbridge operators and batchers
Handout the notes
An industry committee was formed and identified the main issues and problems relating to the control of ex bin customers and developed solutions to those issues. However it was soon apparent that the same solutions should be applied to all drivers as a matter of consistency and overall risk management policy. It also was noted that although the initial scope was aimed at quarry customers the same concerns existed for concrete plants.
This presentation focuses on the roles and responsibilities of sales loader drivers, weighbridge operators and batchers in relation to the CoR regulations.
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2. CoR
Each company, their employees, managers and directors are obligated under Chain of Responsibility legislation to take reasonable steps to prevent breaches of the regulations.
The CoR regulations extend the scope of liability to those parties who know or ought to know that their actions or inactions may, cause, encourage or contribute to any breach and therefore bear a level of responsibility for any such breach.
The laws also prohibits any person from –
Making demands that they know or ought to know would cause a breach,
Entering into contracts that they know or ought to know would cause, encourage or give an incentive for a breach,
Coercing, inducing, causing, contributing to causing or encouraging breaches,
Passing on false or misleading information that could cause a breach.
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3. CoR CoR legislation deals with 4 main areas of road transport –
fatigue
mass, dimension and load restraint
speeding
dangerous goods
Sales Loader Drivers, Weighbridge Operators and batchers have roles and responsibilities in 3 of those areas –
Fatigue
Mass and load restraint
Speeding
Fatigue affects everyone sometime.
Studies have shown that a driver who is fatigued has impaired motor and judgement skills and is a danger to himself and the general public.
We are responsible for the safe loading of all trucks leaving our sites. We are also responsible if we condone a breach by accepting a delivery if the truck is overloaded or the load not restrained safely. We are also encouraging the driver to repeat the breach later.
If you tell a driver that he needs to hurry to get to a site in time you have committed a breach.
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4. CoR - Fatigue
Do not load any truck, or issue any delivery docket if the driver appears fatigued. Signs or indicators of fatigue include the driver being irritable, inattentive, or yawning. Contact your direct supervisor or manager and advise him of the situation.
If such a driver can produce a valid fatigue management plan loading may be undertaken after consultation with your direct supervisor or manager.
This could apply to a pre load situation where the driver is loading then parking the truck so that he can take a stationary rest break or extended rest break before completing delivery.
If a driver appears fatigued the general rule would be – don’t load the truck.
However tippers could be preloaded – either for the next day or for a shift partner. If a driver indicates that this is the case then ensure that this is documented by recording the statement and getting the driver to sign the statement. An ideal place would be a diary, day sheet or the docket itself. The stamp may also be used.
If the driver indicates that he is taking a scheduled rest break straight after loading then document that as above
It would be extremely rare for a concrete truck to be preloaded – any relief driver should be in the yard before you accept this as a reason to load.
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5. CoR - Fatigue
Do not load any truck, or issue any delivery docket if you believe that a driver should be able to produce a record of work and rest hours such as the National Work Diary. A driver must record his work and rest hours if he –
Is more than a 100 kilometre radius from his base
Has travelled or expects to travel more than 500 kilometres on the current delivery
Note some sectors operate under an exemption – if a driver claims he operates under such exemption he must be able to produce that exemption. Contact your direct supervisor or manager and advise the situation.
If you check any drivers record of work and rest hours then document that in your diary or on the day sheet.
A driver can still be fatigued and complying with the work hour regulations. Again - if a driver appears fatigued the general rule would be – don’t load the truck.
An example of a Work Diary exemption is that primary producers can be 160 kilometres radius from their base before being required to complete a Work Diary.
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6. CoR – drivers hours
Drivers can operate under 3 options for work and rest hours. Standard hours are the base option and regulate all drivers and operators who are not accredited under either Basic Fatigue Management (BFM) or Advanced Fatigue Management (AFM)
Either BFM or AFM offer drivers and operators increased work hours in return for a higher level of fatigue management.
Note – 24 hours is not restricted to a calendar day – it means any 24 hour period.
Any period of less than 15 continuous minutes cannot be recorded as a rest break.
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7. CoR – driver hours definitions
Refer to the operator’s own plan if they are accredited under “Advanced Fatigue Management – AFM”
Definitions
Work – time spent driving a regulated heavy vehicle and includes loading or unloading, inspecting or repairing the vehicle, Inspecting or attending to the load, Cleaning or refuelling, helping with or supervising any of the above, recording information or completing paperwork relating to vehicle operation, time spent training or supervising another driver, whilst in the vehicle.
Rest Break – any continuous period of at least 15 minutes that does not involve work. Rest breaks can be taken at suitable locations on the job site, the driver’s base or at the side of the road, in the driver’s seat with the engine running for the driver’s comfort or where this is necessary to rotate the barrel, when queuing to load or unload
Regulated Heavy Vehicle – a vehicle or combination of vehicles with a Gross Vehicle Mass (GVM) over 12 tonnes.
Stationary Rest - rest time that the driver spends out of a heavy vehicle or in an approved sleeper berth of a stationary regulated heavy vehicle.
Night Rest - 7 hours continuous stationary rest taken between 10 pm on a day and 8 am on the next day (using the time zone of the base of the driver) or 24 continuous hours stationary rest.
A “long” hour -any hour worked in excess of 12 hours in a 24 hour period and a “night” hour is any hour worked between midnight and 6am (or the equivalent hours in the time zone of the base of a driver).
AFM drivers must also be able to produce a Work Diary if more than 100 kilometres from their base and the truck must show an accreditation label.
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8. CoR – BFM drivers hours
Under BFM a driver may work up to 14 hours in a 24 hour period. A driver operating under a BFM plan must be able to produce accreditation papers, and a Work Diary if more than 100 kilometres from their base. The truck should display an accreditation label.
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9. CoR – Fitness for Duty
Do not load any truck, or issue any delivery docket if a driver appears to be under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol. Some indicators are slurred words, bloodshot or glazed eyes, unsteady on feet.
Contact your direct supervisor or manager and advise the situation.
Refer to the Fitness for Duty policy – This would be a “for cause” reason to ask the driver to undergo drug and alcohol testing.
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10. CoR - Fatigue
Do not load any truck, or issue any delivery docket if a driver refuses to sign driver’s declaration.
“I am fit for duty, I am not fatigued and I am complying with all applicable work and rest requirements”
Contact your direct supervisor or manager and advise the situation.
The drivers declaration may be on the delivery docket or a separate form depending upon the needs of the business.
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11. CoR – Mass Do not cause or allow overloading of trucks.
If a truck is overloaded the driver must partially discharge or tip enough material so that the load is within the legal limit for that vehicle.
If the driver refuses to adjust the load, do not issue a docket and contact your direct supervisor or manager.
Loader drivers – check for load signs and indicators on truck and trailer bodies – many are marked with allowable load size, some have indicators for load positioning.
If a truck is over its mass limits the driver has to tip some load off – do not issue docket or issue two dockets for an over mass load.
If a batching error occurs the driver has to partially discharge the load so that he leaves the yard within the legal mass limits
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12. CoR – Load Restraint
Do not load any truck, or issue any delivery docket if a vehicle’s load restraint system appears unsafe or unsuitable for the proposed load, e.g. the tarping system appears damaged, inoperative or missing.
As well as ensuring that vehicles are loaded to within the legal mass limits we also need to ensure that the vehicle is suitable for the load to be carried.
Don’t load a truck if the load is not suitable for the vehicle. An example would be loading wet wash out material onto a tipper.
Don’t load a truck if the tarp is damaged, torn, too short, or not operative.
Don’t issue dockets if the driver refuses to tarp the load or the tarp can’t cover the load because of the height of the load above the gunnels. In this instance the load is over dimension for that truck.
Contact your direct supervisor or manager and advise the situation.
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13. CoR - Speeding
Do not cause any unnecessarily delay or delay loading any truck that is ready to accept a load. Unnecessary delays may cause the driver to feel that he has to speed or forego a break to make up lost time. If delays are expected inform any waiting drivers so that they can take a short break.
Do not ask, tell or infer to any driver that they need to deliver any load at or by a certain time so that they feel that they need to speed or forego any required rest breaks.
If there is any reason for a delay in loading inform any waiting drivers that there will be a delay, the expected length if known and the reason if known.
This may give the driver the opportunity to take a short rest break so as to manage his fatigue and his work and rest hours.
Don’t give driver’s unreasonable deadlines or tell them to hurry to a job. If drivers are delayed enroute to a delivery they should inform the allocator or scheduler so that the customer can be updated.
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14. CoR - signage SITE ENTRY NOTICE
All drivers must comply with Chain of Responsibility requirements:
Fatigue Management
Mass & Load Restraint
Speed Compliance
Dangerous Goods
This sign is to be placed at entrance to quarry and concrete plants to give notice to all drivers that they are to comply with the CoR regulations
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15. CoR - signage
NOTICE
This Company reserves the right to refuse to load or unload any vehicle when –
The driver appears fatigued
Or the driver cannot produce any fatigue management plan
Or the driver cannot produce any record of work/rest hours
Or the driver appears to be under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol
Or the vehicle’s load restraint system appears unsafe or unsuitable for the proposed load
Or the vehicle is overloaded
Drivers may be required to complete and sign a declaration that they are fit for duty, they are not fatigued and they are complying with all applicable work and rest requirements.
This sign is to be placed on or in weighbridge offices and batch rooms to give notice to all drivers that the company reserves the right to refuse to load or unload trucks or trailers if they believe the driver to be fatigued, affected by drugs or alcohol, or that they believe the load restraint system is unsafe or unsuitable, or if they believe that the truck or trailer is overloaded, or the driver refuses to sign the driver’s declaration.
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16. CoR – Checklist
Checklist to be displayed in batch rooms and weighbridge offices as a instant reference chart for employees.
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17. Shared responsibility = same result for all
CoR
Chain of responsibility affects everyone – we all need to work at the issues.
End of presentation. Questions?
Ensure that the record of training is completed and signed by each participant.
Shared responsibility = same result for all
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