As a business, you have legal responsibilities to implement health and safety practices in your workplace. You need to ensure that your business doesn't create health and safety problems for your employees, contractors, volunteers, visitors, customers or the public.

Health and safety legislation

Across Australia and New Zealand, the introduction of Occupational Health and Safety (OH&S) legislation has mounted new obligations on organisations to ensure their staff are safe and appropriately supported.

• Australia - In 2012, Australia introduced new Workplace Health and Safety Laws (WHS) to take over from the disparate OH&S laws that were previously governed and managed on a state-by-state basis. These new WHS Laws make laws and regulations more consistent across Australia and provided new outlines around the requirements of organisations.
• New Zealand - The Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 (HSWA) is New Zealand's workplace health and safety law. Its main purpose is to protect workers and others from harm by eliminating or minimising work-related risks.

By knowing and understanding these Laws/Acts and how they apply to your business, you'll be able to implement systems and policies to help you avoid the unnecessary costs and damage to your business by workplace injuries and illness.

Smartrak support

Smartrak is here to assist with addressing specific elements of your WHS policies and systems, especially workers in remote or high-risk roles, and those who are using the company fleet/driving.

Smartrak's fleet management system provides your fleet manager with the tools and information to identify risky behaviour to provide the opportunity for these risks to be addressed.

Smartrak encompasses a range of tools and systems to provide up to date information on individual driver behaviour and provides the reports to be able to set ratings for each driver. By sharing this information with your employees, you can make them aware of their risky behaviour and allow them to address it.