ACC Fleet Saver

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• ACC Fleet Saver

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What is the Fleet Saver Programme?

• Incentive scheme aimed at encouraging the
  adoption of systematic management practices that
  will result in improved

• road safety
• workplace injuries prevention
• fuel savings
• fleet viability and profitability
• transport productivity

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• Modelled on
• WSMP
• Australian heavy vehicle schemes
• OSH injury prevention
• Incentives include reduced levy on ACC portion of
  vehicle licence fee
• Specific audit standards must be met
• Determined by ACC-approved on-site audit
• Road safety best practice consistent with HSE
  Amendment Act 1992

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Safer Journeys strategy Safe System
Why is ACC doing this?

• Human error People make mistakes and crashes
  are inevitable
• Human vulnerability The human body has a
  limited ability to withstand crash forces
• Shared responsibility - System designers and
  system users must all shared responsibility for
  managing crash forces to a level that does not
  result in death or serious injury.
• All of system approach - It will take a
  whole-of-system approach to implement the
  Governments Safe System priority.

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Risk reduction

• Chances of making a mistake or error that could
  result in a crash are dependent on
• safety systems employed by operator
• roads being driven on
• vehicle condition and performance
• driver characteristics, external influences,
  physical and mental state

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Changing safety culture (beyond compliance
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• The fleet operator has primary responsibility for
  safety within their organisation
• The fleet operator
• Sets the standards of behaviour
• Hires, fires and arranges for the training of
  staff
• Purchases or leases the vehicles
• Decides on maintenance priorities
• Determines the safety culture within the
  organisation

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What are the benefits?

• Fleets with good safety management systems have
  less than ½ the crash rate of those that dont
  irrespective of fault
• Crash rates halved when safety management systems
  introduced
• Uptake greater than 50 amongst combination
  vehicle fleets

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Savings made Alexander Petroleum

• Achieved in 3 years
• 18 reduction in fuel consumption (l/100km)
• 50 reduction in incidents
• 99 reduction in 90km/h speed exception reports
  from vehicle instrumentation
• Four main factors addressed
• Management / leadership
• Drivers
• Vehicles
• Journey

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• 13 better fuel efficiency
• 75 reduction in speeding events (over 95km/hr)
• 70 reduction in idling
• Significant unscheduled maintenance events
  reduced
• Improved tyre life
• Improved supply chain performance
• Improved internal communication

16 truck and 32 drivers Line haul subcontractor
to PBT Transport
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How does it work?
Audit Standard Levy reduction Incentive per vehicle
Platinum 40 280
Gold 25 175
Silver 15 105
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Fleet assessments

• Fleet operators undergo an independent audit to 8
  standards
• 5 closely related to WSMP, based on NZ/AS 4801
  and closely aligned to HSE legislation
• 3 fleet-specific based on TERNZ research
• Carried out by ACC-approved auditors

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Where to from here?

• Regulations are under development
• Grouping policy is under development
• Interactions with ACC work products are being
  finalised
• Go live 1 July 2013