The National Road Safety Partnership Program is holding free webinars which will give councils an opportunity to engage with experts on road safety.
Here are the details:
24 July – Rio Tinto: How can a linked CRM-bow tie approach prevent fatalities and serious injuries?
- Time: 2.00pm to 3.00pm AEST which allows 20 for questions
- Link: https://www.nrspp.org.au/?events=nrspp-webinar-how-can-a-linked-crm-bow-tie-approach-prevent-fatalities-and-serious-injuries
- Description: Anthony Deakin at Rio Tinto on how implementing a layered critical control verification program, underpinned by the bow tie analysis method, can create a strong safety loop that identifies weaknesses in an organisation’s frontline safety controls, engaging everyone from the CEO to operators in preventing and reducing serious injuries and fatalities.
22 August – Dr Carmel Harrington: Don’t be a sleepy driver – managing sleep when working shift
- Time: 2.00pm to 3.00pm AEST which allows 20 for questions
- Link: https://www.nrspp.org.au/?events=nrspp-webinar-sleepy-drivers-are-distracted-drivers
- Description: Did you know that driver distraction is one of the biggest causes of serious injuries and fatalities on Australian roads? In fact, research estimates that 1 in 4 vehicle crashes on our roads are caused by distracted or inattentive drivers. Drivers who are sleep deprived are subject to many neurocognitive consequences, including increased distractibility. Research shows that individuals who have chronic sleep deprivation adapt to feelings of tiredness and do not report feeling a sense of sleepiness. However, they display the same decreases in psychomotor vigilance, working memory and cognitive performance, as someone who has not slept for two days. These drivers experience the same consequences as acutely sleep-deprived drivers, with increased distractibility, but these symptoms are often hidden or unrecognised.
Posted 6 July, 2018