At Boral we take safe driving extremely seriously and have a number of control measures in place to maintain a positive road safety culture for all road users. These include:
- Boral management regularly reminds our drivers to be vigilant and respectful while driving on any roads, regardless of vehicle type.
- All of our Boral vehicles have telematics installed which allows management to monitor truck movements and real time speed.
- Boral's logistics team works diligently with our contractors when conducting site inductions to ensure that trucks engaged by us are operated safely and responsibly.
- Truck behavioural audits take place by our Fleet Supervisor on a regular basis, to verify that all drivers are indeed demonstrating safe driving behaviours. If we identify a driver or contractor who is not upholding these conditions, we record the registration, communicate it to the relevant company and if necessary - ban the truck from our sites.
- Boral is currently implementing training for a Human Error Behaviour Program 'SafeStart' which will be undertaken by all our employees. This program aims to achieve a step-change improvement in safety performance by engaging with workers, so they understand how mistakes are made and what can be done to rectify behaviour in the future. It is a highly successful program that helps drivers understand states such as 'Rushing, Frustration, Fatigue and Complacency', which are the key causes in 95% of incidents that occur.
- All vehicles must use a wheel wash after being loaded before exiting our site to ensure that quarry debris is not put onto public roads.
