NATIONAL HEAVY VEHICLE ACCREDITATION SCHEME (NHVAS)
RESILIENCECO can provide your business with everything you need to become accredited and self-managed under your chosen Heavy Vehicle Accreditation Scheme. We provide tailored Manuals, Procedures, Pre-Trip Books, Fault Reporting Books, and Driver Folders uniquely tailored to the requirements of the specific Scheme you wish to become accredited under. One of our experienced consultants personally deliver the materials, resources and trailing for you to become competent in the system management and the necessary steps to become and maintain accredited in the scheme.
Fatigue Management Accreditation
Basic Fatigue Management Accreditation or Advanced Fatigue Management Accreditation encourages heavy vehicle operators to take a greater responsibility for the safety and wellbeing of drivers, the community and other road users. The Fatigue Management modules also provide added flexibility for operators who implement auditable accredited systems to manage driver fatigue, less driver fatigue is a proactive approach by the operator and demonstrates to the community this level of compliance is an initiative to assist with road safety.
As an accredited operator, you must know what your drivers' schedules, trips and rosters are to ensure that they do not exceed the approved work and rest hour times. this needs to be documented and monitored on an ongoing basis. the methods that a business can adopt are of a wide range of which most suits your business and operation, it must be documented and the methods and procedures detailed. This makes up the framework of your Fatigue Management System.
A business is required to have documents to provide evidence that the selected methods are effective and your drivers keep within the specified time frames to maintain accreditation. Essentially, this means keeping records of schedules, rosters, work diaries, and trip information. You must also be able to prove that you consistently follow your documented business practices.
Your Fatigue Management System must comply with the performance standards outlined in the Heavy Vehicle Accreditation Scheme: Business Rules and Standards. As an accredited operator, enrolled in Fatigue Management, you will be audited periodically by an independent auditor to ensure that you are continuing to meet the standards of the scheme. Upon the successful outcome of your audit, your accreditation will be renewed. Alternatively, you may be asked to improve your system before the renewal of your accreditation can take place.
Want to become accredited under the NHVAS Fatigue Management Module? Contact RESILIENCECO today to discuss your own individual business needs. Likewise, need assistance with meeting the requirements of your current NHVAS Accreditation Fatigue Management Module? Contact us for more information.
Mass Management Accreditation
Mass Management Accreditation encourages heavy vehicle fleet operators to take greater responsibility for the loading of their trucks correctly and ensuring that their vehicles are compliant. This assists business operators in ensuring that their business is managed more efficiently. Initially, by having clear procedures in place to ensure that your vehicles are compliant and achieving legal masses and also reducing the risk of mass breaches. Improved Mass Management procedures will also lead to improved road safety.
The benefits to operators may include:
- Productivity and efficiency improvements
- Complying with the requirements of Concessional Mass Limits (CML) and Higher Mass Limits (HML)
- Complying to Level 2 GML mass limits and network access
- Increased customer confidence with the better loading of vehicles
- Better driver morale
- Reduced impact of enforcement
- Better relationships with enforcement agencies
Benefits to the community include better and more consistent compliance with road safety standards.
As an accredited operator under Mass Management, you are required to know what your trucks weigh when they are loaded to ensure that they do not exceed the relevant mass limits. Accurate records of your mass procedures are required to be created and maintained as evidence that correct loading of your vehicles is taking place. How you create these records and monitor these records as evidence are at your individual business discretion. For example, you could use a weighbridge, use on-board scales, estimate the weight from the volume of the load, or a combination of these methods. It is necessary to document the system or systems you intend to follow and explain how it works. This will be your Mass Management System.
You are required to have documents of vehicle weights that prove your procedures and methods are effective and that your vehicles are not overloaded to maintain accreditation. Essentially, this means that your vehicle weight records are current and retained and you must support this by demonstrating that you have followed your written procedures.
Your Mass Management System must comply with the performance standards outlined in the Heavy Vehicle Accreditation Scheme: Business Rules and Standards. As an accredited operator, enrolled in Mass Management, you will be audited periodically by an independent auditor to ensure that you are continuing to meet the standards of the scheme. Upon the successful outcome of your audit, your accreditation will be renewed. Alternatively, you may be asked to improve your system before the renewal of your accreditation can take place.
You may be audited at any time with your vehicles subject to on-road checks to ensure conformance to the performance standards. Mass Management Accreditation will ensure that vehicle mass and loading is proactively managed within your business, especially when subject to an on-road check by enforcement agencies, identified by an Accreditation Sticker displayed on your vehicles.
Want to become accredited under the NHVAS Mass Management Module? Contact RESILIENCECO today to discuss your own individual business needs. Likewise, need assistance with meeting the requirements of your current NHVAS Accreditation Mass Management Module? Contact us for more information.
Maintenance Management Accreditation
Maintenance Management Accreditation encourages heavy vehicle operators to take greater responsibility for maintaining their vehicles correctly to ensure they maintain the vehicles to the manufacturer’s specifications and recommendations or better. This will also assist you to manage your business assets more efficiently. Having clear procedures in place to ensure that your vehicles and trailers are periodically maintained and also reducing the risk of penalties for unroadworthy equipment. Improved maintenance means fewer delays caused by breakdowns and will also lead to improved road safety.
The benefits to operators include:
- Productivity and efficiency improvements due to fewer breakdowns or mechanical faults
- Correct maintenance of your vehicles at all times with consequent savings minimising the likelihood of major repairs.
- Prolonged vehicle life
- Increased customer confidence with better maintained vehicles
- Better driver confidence
- Reduced impact of enforcement
- Better relationships with enforcement agencies
Benefits to the community include better and more consistent compliance with road safety standards.
As an accredited operator under Maintenance Management, you are required to know that your vehicles are maintained in good working mechanical order at all times with faults being noted, diagnosed and fixed as and when they occur. Accurate records of your maintenance procedures are required to be created and maintained as evidence that the correct maintenance of your vehicles is taking place. How you create and monitor these records as evidence are at your individual business discretion. For example, you could use a service record book in each vehicle signed by the service dealer or your own workshop records combined with dated stickers of last service/inspection details attached to the vehicle’ windscreens. It is necessary to document the system you intend to follow and explain how it works. This will be your Maintenance Management System.
You are required to have documents that prove your procedures are effective and your vehicles are properly maintained with faults observed, recorded and repaired as necessary to maintain accreditation. Essentially, this means that your vehicle servicing and repair records are current and retained and you must support this by demonstrating that you have followed all your written procedures.
Your Maintenance Management System must comply with the performance standards outlined in the Heavy Vehicle Accreditation Scheme: Business Rules and Standards. As an accredited operator, enrolled in Maintenance Management, you will be audited periodically by an independent auditor to ensure that you are continuing to meet the standards of the scheme. Upon the successful outcome of your audit, your accreditation will be renewed. Alternatively, you may be asked to improve your system before the renewal of your accreditation can take place.
Accreditation does not exempt you from the law. You can be audited at any time with your vehicles subject to on-road checks to ensure conformance to the performance standards. Maintenance Management Accreditation will ensure that vehicle maintenance and standards are managed within your business, especially when subject to an on-road check by enforcement agencies, identified by an Accreditation Sticker displayed on your vehicles.
Want to become accredited under the NHVAS Maintenance Management Module? Contact RESILIENCECO today to discuss your own individual business needs. Likewise, need assistance with meeting the requirements of your current NHVAS Accreditation Maintenance Management Module? Contact us for more information.
RESILIENCECO Compliance Manager Assistance Packages
Sometimes through staff changes or other reasons, such as new contracts or a growing business, systems can get let go. Sometimes companies just simply lose control of their systems due to heavy workloads or other influencing factors. Compliance being a component that requires some effort, and also a certain amount of attention and commitment, we have a solution that can alleviate the pressure from businesses, the RESILIENCECO-Assist Compliance Package. What RESILIENCECO offers is a service that keeps you at the core of running your business, out on the job and onsite, rather than snowed under in the office. The advantage of regular engagement of compliance administration support also removes the headache of gathering and updating the necessary paperwork in readiness for an impending audit.
The RESILIENCECO-Assist Compliance Package provides peace of mind knowing that all your compliance obligations are under control within your operation, with support available 7 days a week.
Some of the generic support services included in this package include:
- Independent Chain of Responsibility and Work Health & Safety Audits.
- Independent Monthly/Quarterly/Annual Internal Reviews on NHVAS and Accreditation Systems.
- Organisation & Scheduling of, and Preparation for Accreditation Compliance and Renewal Audits.
- Developing policies, safe work procedures, and work instructions tailored to your operations.
- Preparation for upcoming audits from Clients, Regulators, and Scheme Auditors.
- Support for Toolbox Meetings or Training Sessions with Employees and Contractors.
- Non-Conformance reporting & follow up, Incident/Accident review, investigation, and corrective actions reporting.
- Review and update of records for compliance with Chain of Responsibility, NHVAS and Work Health and Safety Legislation.
- Subscription to Weekly Mailing List for Industry Updates, Safety Alerts & Reminders, Accreditation Updates, Toolbox Talk Topics, Internal Staff Training Materials, and Special Offers.
A RESILIENCECO representative will be on hand 7 days a week to assist with any queries and questions and assist where required. The RESILIENCECO Compliance Manager Assistance Package is uniquely tailored to your business operations, so as your business can remain compliant with Heavy Vehicle & WHS Legislation, Accreditation Rules & Requirements, and other Regulatory Requirements.
At RESILIENCECO, we believe that a tailored approach is far more beneficial and effective as opposed to a general approach. When structuring RESILIENCECO-Assist Compliance Packages, we assess your individual business needs and requirements to determine the best possible service that we can provide to you. For more information and a detailed outline about the RESILIENCECO-Assist Compliance Manager Assistance Package, please contact us on 0417 002 008 or send us an email on info@resilienceco.com.au
