Road Transport

The laws change the focus from regulating hours to managing fatigue. Working long hours and fighting body clock circadian rhythms at night is widely recognised as high risk. Operators and drivers who comply by managing fatigue risks through accreditation schemes will have greater control over scheduling work and rest breaks. Productivity levels can be maintained and frequently enhanced by better planning trips and rest breaks, maintaining and validating accurate records, and training drivers and schedulers to understand and address the causes of driver fatigue.

Challenges

Fatigue Risk Management – Lip service or one-time training doesn’t provide any protection. Fatigue risk management has to be proactively managed and deeply embedded in your organisation.
Driver Retention – No other 24/7 industry would tolerate the employee turnover rates accepted as the norm in the transport industry.
Logistics Integration – The rapid pace of innovation creates remarkable opportunities for trucking fleets but only if driver performance and safety is part of the optimisation formula. If equipment utilisation and customer service is the only parameter, driver related costs escalate as false optimisation is driven to the max.

How CIRCADIAN AUSTRALIA can help you:

CIRCADIAN has over 27 years of experience of helping trucking companies find effective solutions which reduce accident costs by up to 75%, cut driver turnover in half and increase operational efficiency. We provide driver fatigue training programs, fatigue risk assessments and expert advice in applying for exemptions and waivers.

Fatigue Risk Assessment – Did you know that 10% of your drivers contribute 70% of the excess risks and costs? CIRCADIAN’s CAS software can help you figure out every day who is at risk and how to address the problem.
Fatigue Training Online – The premier online fatigue management training program for the 24/7 workforce. This web-based system offers specialised training programs providing workers with practical solutions to maintain altertness, productivity, safety and high performance on-duty and get better sleep off-duty.
Education and Training Programs for Drivers and Dispatchers – Basic Fatigue Management and Advanced Fatigue Management (BFM/AFM) accredited training, fatigue risk management programs and driver training.
Technology Assessment – CIRCADIAN AUSTRALIA helps you select the alertness monitoring technology most suitable for your operations. In our university-based research labs we test and evaluate technologies from many vendors.