Cor Policy

DSM TRANS PTY LTD
CHAIN OF RESPONSIBILITY (CoR) POLICY.

ABN: 647 075 232

PURPOSE

DSM Trans Pty Ltd is committed to enforcing compliance with the national Chain of Responsibility (CoR) Legislation, by taking all reasonable, practicable measures to provide training of staff, and engage only those Transport Contractors who demonstrate through appropriate work practices, and proven policy documentation, compliance with CoR legislation.

The purpose of this CoR Policy is to document our working commitment to Australian Road Transport participants, and to the broader community in general, that our business complies with, and acknowledges its obligations and responsibilities in keeping people and property, and the environment safe.

SCOPE

This policy forms part of the DSM Transport compliance strategy. It applies to all owners, managers, employees, contractors, and visitors of DSM Transport, that have responsibility for, or involvement in, activities that fall within the scope of Australian road transport laws.

This includes roles within logistics supply chain and support roles, and extends to ALL suppliers to DSM Transport, including its customers.

POLICY

The Chain of Responsibility Policy is relevant for all areas of DSM Transport, particularly in the areas of warehousing and transport operations.

The five main elements of the CoR Policy are:

Mass & Dimension Limits – Ensuring that all vehicles must leave our sites within their mass carrying constraints, and that the mass is distributed appropriately across the loading deck with respect to axle weight limits and safe load mass distribution.
Load Restraint – Ensuring that when vehicles are loaded, cargo is adequately secured for safe road transport; and in the case of goods receiving, that loads are carefully checked for load restraint compliance before handling, to ensure the safety of unload personnel and operations staff generally.
Driver Fatigue – Ensuring that drivers are well rested and provided adequate time to take scheduled rest breaks, ensuring that sub-contractors have in place fatigue management policy and strategies that comply with driver fatigue legislation and hazards, and ensuring all reasonable measures are taken towards effective minimisation of any foreseeable risks to health and safety.
Speed Limits – Ensuring that driver routes are well planned, and that scheduling of collections and deliveries does not impose demands on drivers and staff that may result in breaches of road speed limits or contribute to unsafe work practices. Such planning must always remain operationally dynamic, ensuring unplanned delays encountered during scheduled work do not contribute to driver pressures which could require them to complete work in a shorter timeframe, and to possibly engage in unsafe driving practices as a result.
Vehicle Maintenance – Ensuring that all vehicles are serviced in accordance with the manufacturer’s specifications, and that copies of service or repair invoices, or vehicle inspections are provided to DSM Transport.

VEHICLE COMPLIANCE

DSM Transport Pty Ltd ensures operating vehicles, and those of our subcontractors, are fully compliant.

It is therefore a requirement at DSM Transport that any vehicle(s) has the following information verified prior to engagement of work:

Vehicle is registered.
Vehicle is insured.
Maintenance records are in order and up to date.
Vehicle is fit for purpose on general presentation and inspection.
Vehicle GVM.
Appropriate load restraints in place prior to loading.
Speed limiters are fitted and functional on regulated heavy vehicles (GVM more than 12 tonnes).
Current public liability and vehicle insurances on file and maintained.

DRIVER COMPLIANCE

DSM Transport ensures that any driver engaged in doing work on its behalf has the following information verified prior to commencement, and that it is maintained for the duration of any such engagement:

Appropriate class and current Australian Driver’s License.
Appropriate current insurances.

FATIGUE MANAGEMENT

DSM Transport takes all reasonable steps to ensure all parties in the supply chain with which it is directly involved identify risks associated with fatigue, and that they are minimised and controlled, or wherever possible eliminated through good management and workplace practices.

Compliance and enforced management of this policy requires:

Drivers are educated in road transport fatigue management rules and regulations.
Drivers take statutory rest breaks when required, and those rest breaks are included in trip planning by schedulers.
Contractors have documented fatigue management and training strategies in place in their organisations, and these are maintained.
Commercial arrangements between Miele and drivers and contractors NEVER incentivise breaches of fatigue management laws.

WORK & DRIVER SCHEDULING

DSM Transport is committed to the activation and quality management of transport and workplace scheduling strategies that ensure the safety of employees, contractors, and the environment, and the community, through compliance with all CoR legislation, and associated rules and regulations in the Australian Transport Industry.

Compliance and enforced management of this policy requires:

Schedulers and management to ensure loads are allocated in accordance with statutory vehicle mass limits.
Schedulers and management to ensure driver plans are achievable to the best of their practical experience, and do not contribute to any requirement for drivers to exceed speed limits under any circumstances.
Schedulers to proactively manage unprogrammed delays and scheduling changes that affect drivers’ working hours, fatigue, mass limits, and route speed, to ensure that jobs are added or removed from schedules so that there is full compliance to CoR legislation.
Schedulers to ensure drivers’ fit for duty declarations, and pre-trip vehicle checks are completed before the commencement of activity.

MASS & DIMENSION LIMITS

DSM Transport takes all reasonable steps to ensure that loads direct from its sites, and external loads comply with axle mass limits, and comply with statutory legislation governing mass limits on Australian roads in all states of Australia.

The policy requires that:

All consignment notes are signed before departure by drivers to ensure they are aware of the mass and dimensions of the cargo load they are undertaking.
Drivers shall NEVER be pressured to transport a load they do not feel is compliant in mass or dimension.
All DSM Transport drivers are trained in load restraint, and road mass and dimension limits for Australian Operations.
All equipment for the restraint of mass limit loads is compliant to Australian standards and free of wear or damage that may compromise its effective purpose of use.

SPEED LIMIT MANAGEMENT

DSM Transport takes all reasonable steps to ensure that all its employee and contractor drivers (of any road vehicle) do not breach Australian road speed limits.

This Policy requires that:

Schedulers do not allocate work volumes that are not reasonably achievable in a shift, to ensure drivers are not pressured to breach speed limits.
It is expected that licensed drivers do not need education on Australian road speed limit compliance, and therefore breaches of speed limits resulting in fines will be the responsibility of the driver, and if the offence is severe, the driver will be terminated immediately.
All company and contractor vehicles are fitted where required with functioning speed limiter devices, and records of maintenance of those devices can be provided on request to prove the contractor is operating compliantly.

LOAD RESTRAINT

DSM Transport ensures that all loads undertaken are restrained safely and in accordance with load restraint guidelines and legislation in all states of Australia.