This course outlines the requirements and obligations relating to fatigue management, speed compliance, heavy vehicle safety and roadworthiness, and load management, including mass, dimension, and load restraint.

The course explains how these areas relate to the Chain of Responsibility and the Heavy Vehicle National Law and outlines the key risks and practical steps for managing them in accordance with legal requirements.

What the course covers:
This course includes five eLearning modules covering:
Module 1. Fatigue Management – This module includes the Heavy Vehicle National Law (HVNL) and Regulations requirements and obligations for Fatigue Management, an introduction to fatigue, recognising the signs of fatigue, and the causes of fatigue, compliance to the work and rest hours requirements. This module includes an introduction to the options for managing hours which include: Standard Hours, Basic Fatigue Management and Advanced Fatigue Management, record keeping requirements, and practical solutions and the key elements of managing the risks of fatigue in your business.

Module 2. Speed Compliance – This module includes the Heavy Vehicle National Law (HVNL) and Regulations requirements and obligations for Speed Compliance, practical solutions and the key elements of managing the risks of speed compliance in your business, and specific requirements and obligations which include licence requirements, scheduling, speed breeches, monitoring speed compliance and speed limiter tampering.

Module 3. Roadworthiness – This module includes the Heavy Vehicle National Law (HVNL) and Regulations requirements and obligations for managing Heavy Vehicle Safety and Roadworthiness. This module includes practical solutions and the key elements of managing the risks of Heavy Vehicle Safety and Roadworthiness compliance in your business, and specific requirements and obligations which include the Heavy Vehicle Standards and Australian Design Rules, maintenance programs, reporting and management of defects, and record keeping requirements in accordance with the HVNL and the NHVAS Maintenance Management Standard.

Module 4. Load Restraint – This module includes the Heavy Vehicle National Law (HVNL) and Regulations requirements and obligations for Load Restraint and the National Transport Commission Load Restraint Guide and the law, an overview of the requirements of the 5 Load restraint fundamentals which include: Packaging, Friction, Dunnage, Load Configuration and Lashings, and practical solutions to manage the risks of load restraint in your business including packaging, load restraint methods, and load inspections.

Module 5. Mass and Dimension Limits – This module includes the Heavy Vehicle National Law (HVNL) and Regulations requirements and obligations for Mass and Dimension Limits, the requirements for General, Concessional, and Higher Mass Limits, the requirements for a complying Container Weight Declaration or CWD. This module includes general Dimension limits – width, height, length, and rear overhang, requirements for Oversize and/or over-mass loads (OSOM), and practical solutions to manage the risk of mass and dimension limits in your business including scheduling loads, accuracy of information, and monitoring compliance.

Who Should Attend - Supervisors, Schedulers, Consignors, Consignees, Packers, Loading Managers, Loaders/ Unloaders

Duration - Complete online at your own pace (Self-paced) approximately 100 minutes to complete.

Certificate - Upon successful completion of the three Modules and the assessment questions, participants will be issued with a Certificate of Completion.