For immediate release, Wednesday 25 February 2026, Sydney: As part of its longstanding partnership with Road Safety Education Limited (RSE) and its commitment to Zero Harm, extending to the responsibility of road safety and better educating drivers and passengers, Boral Limited (“Boral”) attended delivery of the Ryda road safety program at Deakin University’s Geelong campus and awarded the Boral Supporting Excellence Police Award to Leading Senior Constable Lee-Anne Nelson of Portland Police.
The award was presented to Leading Senior Constable Nelson for her dedication to road safety education and instrumental work in facilitating school, police officer and road safety expert participation in regional Victoria.
Last year, more than 1300 people were killed on Australian roads, a 2 per cent increase on the previous year.1 Traffic injury is the biggest killer of Australian children under 15 and the third-biggest killer of all Australians aged between 15 and 24.2
Duncan Harris, Executive General Manager Concrete and Quarries Victoria, says: “We are proud to be a longstanding partner of RSE and the Ryda program, having students learn from our Boral drivers to better understand risks around trucks and heavy vehicles on the road. As one of the largest suppliers of construction materials in Australia, we have a large heavy vehicle footprint – about 3,500 heavy vehicles – and are on the road everyday delivering to customers. We are committed to better educating the next generation of drivers and passengers with whom we share the road with.
“We are very pleased to present the Boral Supporting Excellence Police Award to Leading Senior Constable Lee-Anne Nelson for her deep level of support and outstanding commitment to road safety education. She has been instrumental in securing school participation as well as local road safety experts and local community support and funding to ensure the program’s delivery in regional Victoria. Lee-Anne has contributed greatly to safer roads for road users and the communities she serves and we’re delighted to present her with this award.”
John Elliott, RSE’s Head of Program Delivery, says: “Leading Senior Constable Nelson and her fellow officers unfortunately have seen first-hand what can go wrong with poor decision-making on the road.
“This award not only recognises the invaluable contribution police make to road safety education across Australia, but the support Boral and our corporate partners provide to ensure life-saving education is accessible to those who need it the most.
Ryda brings together local support with the Australia’s largest and longest-running best practice road safety education program.”
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1 https://www.bitre.gov.au/statistics/safety/fatal_road_crash_database
2 https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/health/causes-death/causes-death-australia/2024
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Boral is the largest vertically-integrated construction materials company in Australia. Our network includes prized quarry and cement infrastructure, bitumen, construction materials recycling, asphalt and concrete batching operations. We employ about 7,500 employees and contractors across our operations that span more than 360 sites nation-wide. For more than 75 years we’ve been building something great in Australia - rarely a day goes by that you wouldn’t pass one of our sites or trucks, enter a building, use a road, bridge, tunnel, footpath or other critical infrastructure that our people and products have helped enable
