We understand that the main fundamental reason of CoR is looking after the team workers on the roads and other road users who share the road with us. The aim of COR is to make sure everyone in the supply chain in Sahib Transport shares equal responsibility for ensuring the risk are eliminated or reduced if possible and making sure that breaches of the Heavy Vehicle National Law do not occur.

As a party in the supply chain, we have implemented the best way to minimise risk is reasonably practicable is to have safety management systems and controls in place, such as sound business practices, training, procedures and review processes that:

• Recognize, survey, assess, and control hazard
• Manage compliance with speed, fatigue, dimension, mass, loading and unloading, vehicle maintenance
• Report or record activities taken into account
• Regular reporting

Eliminating risks

• To eliminate the risk with the tasks associated with heavy vehicle, we have implemented the risk management approach which helps reduce the pressure off the driver and target:
  Heavy vehicle Maintenance
• Heavy vehicle Mass and Dimension
• Fatigue Management
• Vehicle Speed
• Driver’s Work Hour
• Loads Restraint

Steps taken in relation to CoR

The law recognises that multiple parties may be responsible for offences committed by the drivers and operators of heavy vehicles. A person may be a party in the supply chain in more than one way. For example they may have duties as the employer, the operator and the consignor of goods.

• To reduce the effect and part of CoR we have taken steps as :
• Regular drug and alcohol testing
• Regular discussion on safety and CoR with the customers, team members, sub-contractors and all other parties.
• Regular vehicle inspections
• Mandatory policies, procedures and standards on vehicle mass, dimensions and maintenance
• Awaring our customers
• Guiding our drivers through many programs about safety and managing fatigue

NHVR Guidelines 

Legal liability applies to all parties for their actions or inactions.

Who are parties in the supply chain?

The parties in the Chain of Responsibility for a heavy vehicle are:

• an employer of a driver
• a prime contractor for the driver – if the vehicle’s driver is self-employed
• an operator of the vehicle
• a scheduler for the vehicle
• a loading manager for any goods in the vehicle
• a loader and/or unloader of a vehicle
• a consignor of any goods for transport by the vehicle
• a consignee of any goods in the vehicle
• a loader and/or unloader of any goods in the vehicle.

When could COR apply?

Some examples include:

• when a party has control or influence over a transport activity and fails to manage, so far as reasonably practicable, the risk it creates
• when a party’s business practices cause or encourage the driver of a heavy vehicle to exceed the speed limits
• when a party’s business practices cause or encourage the driver of a heavy vehicle to breach mass, dimension, or loading requirements
• where instructions, actions or demands to parties in the supply chain cause or contribute to an offence under the HVNL.

Further information

For more information visit National Heavy Vehicle Regulator (NHVR) Website