Peak transport industry bodies have come together to form the Transport Industry Safety Group (TISG), which focuses on improving road and occupational safety for all persons within the road transport industry.
The group comprises of senior executives from a number of organisations including – VicRoads, Victoria Police, Victorian WorkCover Authority, Transport Accident Commission, Victorian Transport Association, Bus Association (Victoria), National Transport Commission, Australian Research Board (ARRB), the Transport Workers Union (Victoria/Tasmania) and the Office of the Sate Coroner of Victoria.
The TISG will be chaired by Victorian Transport Association CEO, Peter Anderson (pictured), who said the TISG is the “think tank” for transport industry safety initiatives, having previously produced a number of reference documents that have contributed to improving safety standards.
“The reference documents produced by the TISG were designed to provide guidance to transport operators to improve safety within their businesses and the industry in general,” he said.
“Established in 1995, the group has been reinvigorated and is looking to what it can do now to improve safety and work towards reducing harm to all community members through improved safety methods, processes, technology and best practice benchmarks for the heavy vehicle industry.”
According to Anderson, the TISG will also work closely with industry experts including a number of consultants who voluntarily work with the group to develop proactive strategies to reduce the incidence of death and serious injury within the transport industry. “The TISG is a working group that will produce actions and solutions based on fact to improve community safety and work towards reducing harm to all,” he added.