Workplace Road Safety Leadership

Lead workplace road safety and build safety cultures

Explore new ways to protect staff who drive for work and create a strong road safety culture. Many organisations struggle to manage work-related driving risks effectively, leaving staff vulnerable and organisations exposed to legal and operational consequences.

This two-week course provides essential knowledge for leading workplace road safety. You’ll explore vehicles as workplaces, driver risk factors, safe journey planning, and practical risk management processes tailored to organisational contexts.

Understand vehicles as workplaces and safe systems

Explore the fundamentals of treating vehicles as workplaces under work health and safety laws. You’ll learn the safe system approach including safe vehicles, seatbelts, child restraint systems, and legal responsibilities.

You’ll discover how to identify key road safety hazards and practical ways to minimise risks for work-related driving.

Learn driver factors and safe journey planning

Examine factors affecting safe driving like fatigue, distraction, and journey risks. You’ll learn to implement safe journey planning that removes hazards before staff begin their journeys.

You’ll understand how to activate organisational support and build leadership commitment to road safety across all levels.

Embed road safety culture and develop policies

Learn risk management processes tailored to workplace road safety challenges. Through practical guidance, sample policies, and useful resources, you’ll develop effective road safety procedures.

You’ll gain strategies for good governance, consultation, and creating a positive road safety culture throughout your organisation.

This course is ideal for organisations whose staff drive for work, plus those managing transport for children with disabilities, especially WHS managers, HR leaders, and senior teams responsible for workplace road safety.

This course is ideal for organisations whose staff drive for work, plus those managing transport for children with disabilities, especially WHS managers, HR leaders, and senior teams responsible for workplace road safety.

• Demonstrate knowledge of the vehicle as a workplace and relevant work health and safety laws.
• Identify key workplace road safety hazards and risks and how they can be minimised.
• Discuss how organisations can embed a road safety culture, supported by good governance, consultation and effective policies and procedures.
• Lead the development of road safety policies/processes for your workplace.