NTI's Spilt Milk Project
In 2021, NTI identified through its claims data that dairy tanker operations were experiencing a disproportionately high frequency and severity of incidents when compared to other comparable occupations. As part of NTI’s commitment to living its values of helping industry towards a safety and more sustainable future, NTI applied for and received a National Heavy Vehicle Regulator (NHVR) Heavy Vehicle Safety Initiative (HVSI) grant to explore dairy tanker safety challenges and to build resource to support the dairy industry to improve its road safety performance.
The project received fantastic support from the dairy industry, with the majority of major processors and all major dairy carriers opting to participate, providing access to their processes, insights and expertise. This project was named ‘Spilt Milk’ and had a simple premise, that nobody knows more about dairy tanker safety, than the dairy industry. It sought to identify common challenges, best practice responses to those challenges and pockets of innovation and then scale them to be available to the entire dairy industry.
Through the exploratory 'listening' phase of th eproject, six key themes were identified:
- Vehicles
- Slosh & Surge
- ESC (Electronic Stability Control)
- Farm Risks
- On-Road Risks
- Supply Chain
To address those themese a range of artefacts were created, including training packages with presentation decks, presenter guides and attendee workbooks.
Special Report into Heavy Vehicle Roadworthiness
Are good trucks the sign of a great operator?
This report, brought to you in collaboration with the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator examines the relationship between vehicle standard non-conformities and the safety performance of a heavy vehicle operator.
There is little data in this space, predominantly because of a separation between the organisations who hold data on vehicle condition and organisations who have access to data on crashes.
This research brings together NTI’s extensive data on Australian heavy vehicle road crashes with the vehicle condition data held by the NHVR.
Disclaimer:
This report is prepared by NTI Limited. The report should not be relied upon in lieu of appropriate advice and is not intended to and should not be used or relied upon by anyone else. This disclaimer governs the use and contents of this report. It is a guide only to provide you with an opportunity to review your business needs. Information contained in the report is current as of the date of the Report. To meet your obligations under the Heavy Vehicle National Laws, and any other laws and regulations governing your business activities, you are required to seek independent advice to assess and incorporate such changes to suit your circumstances. If you have specific questions about any part of the report you should discuss it with us. All queries to the content should be addressed to NTI Limited.
NTARC
At NTI, we're committed to creating safer roads - not only for transport operators but for all road users. That's why we established the National Truck Accident Research Centre (NTARC).