DriveAbout WorkForce
IRSA maintains a License Agreement with DriveAbout to deliver the DriveAbout WorkForce program. DriveAbout WorkForce provides practical, competency-based education to help employers meet their duty of care.
DriveAbout WorkForce provides 90 minutes of visually rich animated training in English, 8 Australian Indigenous languages and 7 foreign languages.
Why should employers care about road rules and road safety education?
The Australian Work Health and Safety Act 2011 confers responsibility on employers and employees to create and maintain a safe workplace, including during work related travel. It also states that whenever employees are required to travel, whether by foot, bicycle, scooter, car, bus or heavy vehicle, they are in the workplace.
The introduction of industrial manslaughter laws in QLD, NT, VIC and the ACT means that both employers and employees are legally responsible for workplace death, which can result in financial penalties for companies and jail time for individuals.
Apart from legislated requirements, employers stand to benefit financially from elevating road safety as a business priority. Every road incident or death prevented means many more families and workplaces avoid the associated financial, personal and physical costs.
One prevented road crash fatality saves $4.34M
Two prevented road crash hospitalisations saves $478,000
One prevented permanent disability saves $694,000
30 prevented non-hospitalised road crash injuries saves $360,000
Benefits of DriveAbout WorkForce for your organisation
Creates safer employees and workplaces
Reduce road accident, medical & vehicle costs
Scaleable and affordable EdTech
Contextualised modules for specific audiences
Easy to implement in WHS plan and training
Elevate road safety awareness to training
Risk management
Deployable on multiple platforms
Implementation
Although DriveAbout is built around a core body of content, it can be customised and made available on different platforms. The platforms through which it is already delivered include apps, digitised e-books, and web-based training.
To find out more about implementing DriveAbout WorkForce into your organisation, contact us today!