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Agenda

 
Day One: Tuesday 8th March 2011
| Day One | Day Two |
8.30
Registration and refreshments
9.00
Speed networking session

Get to know your peers right from the start in this relaxed and informal networking session. Bring your business cards!

9.20
Opening remarks from the Chair
Dr Jeff Potter, Senior Manager of Safety, National Transport Commission
ROAD SAFETY OVERVIEW
9.30
The cost of road crashes – A review of key issues
  • Is the extent of road crash injuries in Australia truly understood? The social and economic cost of road crashes to the community
  • Approaching road safety as a public health issue
  • Utilising what knowledge we have on the effects of road crash injuries to develop nation-wide strategies for road safety
Dr Richard Tooth, Consulting Principal, LECG
10.10
Supporting Road Safety Leadership – The international development of ISO 3900 Road Traffic Safety Management Standard
Martin Small, Director Road Safety, Safety and Regulation Division, Department for Transport, Energy and Infrastructure, SA
10.50
Morning tea
STATE-BY-STATE PERSPECTIVE OF ROAD SAFETY
11.20
PANEL DISCUSSION

With a shared vision of little to no deaths or serious injuries on Australian roads, hear insights into the programs and policies being deployed at a state level. Addressing safety management systems to improve road safety, specific state presentations will be followed by a general Q&A session.

Martin Small, Director, Road Safety, Department of Transport, Energy and Infrastructure, SA
Julian Lyngcoln, Director, Road User Safety, VicRoads
Q&A session
12.20
Lunch
HEAVY VEHICLE AND FLEET SAFETY
1.20
Performance Based Standards for heavy vehicles
  • Achieving higher productivity and safety through innovative vehicle design
Marcus Coleman, Technical Advisor, PBS Review Panel, National Transport Commission
2.00
Safety driven productivity improvement: A path to fewer heavy vehicle fatalities
  • An overview of heavy vehicle fatalities and the cost to the economy
  • Regulatory frameworks in place to reduce fatigue and speed-related fatalities
Stuart St Clair, Chief Executive, Australian Trucking Association
2.40
Strategies to eliminate avoidable heavy vehicle accidents
  • A review of previously identified and discussed key heavy vehicle accident signatures and the statistical technique to identify
  • Understanding fundamental system dynamic behaviour of air suspensions used on heavy vehicles - both powered and un-powered axles
  • Identifying simple and low-cost strategies to eliminate at least 7 out of 10 HV accidents
Dr Arnold McLean, Senior Partner, McLean Technical Services
3.20
Afternoon tea
3.40
CASE STUDY: Lessons learnt from heavy vehicle crashes at level crossings
Larry Matters, Senior Transport Investigator, Australian Transport Safety Bureau
4.20
Driving improved fleet safety on Australian roads
  • Fleet safety as an emerging issue in Australia – Understanding the social and economic cost of workplace road crashes and the challenges in keeping fleets safe
  • Examples of new fleet safety initiatives and how they apply in an Australian context
  • Viewing fleet safety as an OH&S priority – The path to achieving a strong fleet safety culture in your organisation
  • Building the right framework to address fleet safety at a policy, work environment and driver-practice level
Russell White, Founder, Driversafety.com.au and Fatality Free Friday
5.00
End of day one
 
Day Two: Wednesday 9th March 2011
| Day One | Day Two |
8.30
Morning coffee and networking
9.00
Opening remarks from the Chair
SAFER ROADS
9.10
Progress report: Assessing the effectiveness of a Safe Systems approach to road safety
  • Achieving the shared vision of no deaths or serious injury on our roads – What is working well and what are the challenges to overcome?
  • Options for future provision of infrastructure that meets Safe System objectives in the short, medium and long term
David McTiernan, Team Leader Safe Systems and Congestion, Freight & Productivity, ARRB Group
9.50
Engineering road safety solutions
  • Developing roads and roadside features which prevent or minimises the risk of serious injury or death
  • Anticipating human error in the design stage
Dr George Rechnitzer, Principal Forensic Engineer, Delta-V Experts
10.30
Morning tea and networking break
11.00
CASE STUDY: Victoria's Safer Road Infrastructure Program
  • Techniques to address run-off road crashes
Julian Lyngcoln, Director, Road User Safety, VicRoads
11.40
CASE STUDY: Managing the risk of crashes and fires in tunnels – An operator’s perspective
  • An insight into the work of the Sydney Harbour Tunnel operators in minimising the potential for crashes or fires within the tunnel and approaches
  • Best practice in responding to an emergency
Bob Allen, General Manager, Sydney Harbour Tunnel Company
12.20
Lunch
1.20
CASE STUDY: Prevention strategies for road crashes in regional areas
  • Addressing the behaviors and attitudes of rural drivers that contribute to the higher levels of road risk
  • The development and trial of prevention strategies with people hospitalised following rural road crashes
Gayle Sticher, Rural and Remote Safety Researcher
2.00
Improving safety at schools
Ann Turner, Founding Director, 10,000 Friends of Greater Sydney
2.40
Afternoon tea and networking
SAFER DRIVERS
3.10
Understanding the behavior of high-risk road users
  • Identifying and understanding the road user behavior of unsafe drivers and how they contribute to crashes
  • Techniques to encourage safer driver behavior
Dr Brett Molesworth, Psychologist and Human Factors Specialist, University of NSW
3.50
CASE STUDY: Kilometre-based insurance as a road safety measure
  • Ensuring those who pose the greatest risk of damage pay the higher premiums – The argument for using GPS technology for kilometre-based insurance schemes
Stephen Greaves, Associate Professor in Transportation Management, Institute of Transport & Logistics Studies, University of Sydney
4.30
End of conference
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