Vehicle Safety
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Getting started
Employers and duty holders must make sure that vehicles used in the workplace are: safe, driven safely, and regularly maintained, repaired and inspected.
Key messages
Employers and dutyholders must make sure that vehicles used in the workplace are:
- safe;
- right for the job;
- driven safely;
- accessed safely; and
- regularly maintained, repaired and inspected.
The following links are for workplace transport managers who are responsible for choosing and maintaining vehicles for use in the workplace.
Topics
- Safe vehicles
- Safe manoeuvring
- Ways to stop vehicles from moving
- The right vehicle for the job
- Inspection, maintenance and repair
- Securing loads
- Site-based access to vehicles
- Vehicle-based access to vehicles
- Preventing falls from vehicles
- Safe sites
- Safe drivers