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Staying safe

DR KIM HASSALL is Chair of CILT-Australia and a director of the Industrial Logistics Institute. It is intended that a series of Logistics Pricing Short Courses will be run through CILTA over the next 12 months.

Avery common question that gets asked is: what road transport certifications schemes produce the best safety results? This is a relevant question as the development of certain road certifications schemes often had specific safety intensions behind their initial development.

So, how do the certifications undertaken by the Australian road freight industry compare?

This analysis does not give a total answer to this question but does give an insight for at least the high performing end of the Australian road transport sector, namely the

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