Employer Toolkit

Around 1 in 4 workplace fatalities occurred while driving or riding for work.

26% of road fatalities from crashes involve a vehicle being used for business.

Between 2018-2021, 331 people lost their lives from crashes involved a vehicle being used for business. These figures can be further broken down here.

With changes to our lifestyle, food delivery riders are an emerging group in injuries and fatalities in 2020.

There are many benefits to embedding road safety in your workplace. Some of these benefits include:

• reducing the risk of your workers (and others) being injured or killed
• minimising lost working days and lost time injuries (LTIs) due to worker injuries
• helping your workplace to meet Work Health and Safety (WHS) requirements
• motivating your workers and demonstrating that you value their safety
• improving employer / worker engagement
• fulfilling your Corporate Social Responsibility
• the opportunity to reduce the cost of:

1. insurance premiums (for example, vehicle and workers compensation)
2. vehicle maintenance
3. regulatory fees
4. fuel consumption

The real cost of a crash to your workplace is often three to four times that of what your insurance pays out. These costs can include the cost of damage to a vehicle, lost time and workers compensation of your workers, and decreased efficiency due to a vehicle being off the road. Embedding road safety is simply good business.

As an employer, you have a primary duty of care to provide and supervise a safe system of work under the Work Health and Safety Act 2011.

A vehicle used for work is considered to be a workplace.

A workplace must provide workers with the information, instruction, training and supervision necessary to ensure their health and safety.

For more information, visit SafeWork NSW or contact your local SafeWork NSW Inspector.

Road safety is a shared responsibility between both employers and workers.

This table outlines the responsibilities of you and your workers. When developing any policies, guidelines, or engagement activities with your workers, consider using these responsibilities to shape your key messages.