What is the National Heavy Vehicle Accreditation Scheme?
The National Heavy Vehicle Accreditation Scheme is a voluntary alternative to conventional heavy vehicle enforcement. Accredited operators must demonstrate through regular audits of their transport management systems and vehicle or driver assessments, that their vehicles and drivers comply with standards set by National Heavy Vehicle Accreditation Scheme.The National Heavy Vehicle Accreditation Scheme is intended to increase transport efficiency by reducing the costs of compliance and allowing members greater flexibility in the management of their transport business.
The long-term objectives of the mass and maintenance management modules are to:
- improve efficiency for scheme members by reducing the impact of conventional regulatory enforcement
- raise levels of compliance for non-accredited operators through more effective deployment of enforcement resources
- improve road safety
- increase the productivity of the transport industry through adoption of 'good' management practices
- allow higher mass limits to be introduced in a responsible way.
What's new
The National Heavy Vehicle Accreditation Scheme now includes the fatigue management module as its third module. The two options available in the scheme are basic fatigue management or advanced fatigue management.Fatigue membership requires operators to create an auditable fatigue management system to address the risks associated with fatigue.
The benefits of the new fatigue management module includes:
- improvements in productivity and efficiency
- greater accountability of both drivers and operations staff for managing the fatigue levels of drivers
- improved driver morale
- improved flexibility for drivers in managing their own fatigue
- improved flexibility for operators in scheduling and rostering
- improved safety
- better management of chain of responsibility requirements.
Related links
Mass management module
- Mass management module
- Applying for first time entry and renewal
- How to add and/or delete vehicles
- How to request replacement labels or change vehicle registration numbers and intercept books
Maintenance management module
- Maintenance management module
- Applying for first time entry and renewal
- How to add and/or delete vehicles
- How to request replacement labels or change vehicle registration numbers and intercept books
- Selling or transferring of Queensland registered vehicles
Fatigue management module
Other important scheme membership information
- Scheme business rules
- Scheme fees
- Interception reports
- Audit framework and requirements
- Meeting scheme timeframes
- Voluntary exit from scheme
- Contact information and updating operator details
- Related programs
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Last updated 06 October 2008
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