Safety Assist is a project funded by WorkSafe, supported by the Victorian Transport Association and Transport Workers Union, which aims to reduce injuries in the transport industry, specifically in short distance road freight. Delta-V Experts has been selected as a founding Alliance Partner to provide engineering consulting, incident investigation and safety consulting services to Safety Assist.

The Safety Assist project will:

• Develop, design and engineer solutions for manual handling, slips and fall risk problems
• Share solutions across the industry
• Develop policies and procedures with employers and clients, including government agencies, to address chain of responsibility obligations
• Ensure access to materials to support the improvements in OHS
• Improve competence in managing OHS across the industry

Further information can be found on the Safety Assist website.

Please contact DVE on 03 9481 2200 if you operate in short distance road freight and woulid like assistance under Safety Assist or any other OH&S improvement program.