Mass management accreditation helps operators manage their business more efficiently, as a result of clear procedures for ensuring trucks are not overloaded, and reduces the risk of penalties arising from mass offences.
It is a quality system that demonstrates the operator can verify that the legal mass of the vehicle is controlled.

The mass management module was developed in partnership with industry for use by operators who, when
accredited, will benefit by operating in an environment of minimal interference from government. This also 
provides an assurance to the community that the safety and protection of the nation’s assets are enhanced.

An accredited operator must know what their trucks weigh when they are loaded to ensure they do not exceed the relevant mass limits. A
record of the loaded weight for each trip is kept as proof that the vehicles are within relevant mass limits. It is up to the operator to decide
how they prove the vehicles’ weight when they are loaded. Options include use of a weighbridge, on-board scales, estimating the weight from
the volume of the load, or a combination of these methods. The important thing is to record the method used and explain how it works. To stay accredited an operator needs to have documentation that proves their system works and their trucks are not overloaded. In part, this means keeping records of vehicle weights. Operators must also be able to prove that they are always following their written procedures.

Maintenance management accreditation encourages heavy vehicle operators to take more responsibility for servicing their vehicles regularly
and ensuring their vehicles are safe at all times. It helps you manage your business more efficiently, because you will have clear procedures for ensuring your vehicles are well maintained, and there will be reduced down time associated with breakdowns and annual inspections. It should
also lead to greater road safety.

TruckSafe is a business and risk management system, which is aimed at improving the safety and professionalism of trucking operator's nation wide. It is an industry initiative, which delivers competitive advantages to accredited
operators.
Management - Aimed at ensuring that a trucking operator has a documented business system which covers each of
the standards

Maintenance - Aimed at ensuring vehicles and trailers are kept in a safe and roadworthy condition. This standard
covers the requirements for daily checks, fault reporting and recording, fault repair, scheduled maintenance,
maintenance records and documentation, maintenance responsibilities, internal review, and maintenance training
and education. TruckSafe maintenance also complies with NHVAS maintenance standards

Workplace and Driver Health - Aimed at ensuring that drivers are fit and healthy and Occupational Health and Safety requirements are met.
This standard covers requirements for Workplace Health and Safety, Driver Health Screening (including medicals), the role of the medical practitioner, rehabilitation and fatigue management. Training - Aimed at ensuring that drivers are licensed, authorised and trained for the
tasks, which they are undertaking.

Safe Food Queensland works to ensure consumers have as much confidence in the safety of Queensland-produced
food as they have in its great taste.




HACCP is project management company which designs, implements and manages food safety programs for organizations in the food and food-related industries

 

Interstate Certification Assurance (ICA) is a system of plant health certification based on quality management principles.  
ICA provides an alternative to traditional plant health certification involving government inspectors.
The ICA Scheme is a national scheme administered by all states and territories. The scheme enables a business to be
accredited
 by a state or territory plant quarantine authority to issue plant health assurance certificates for its produce.

 To be accredited, a business must be able to demonstrate it has effective in-house procedures in place that ensure produce consigned
to
intra or interstate markets meets specified plant quarantine requirements.  The plant quarantine authority regularly audits compliance by
the business.
The ICA Scheme seeks to provide a harmonised approach to the audit and accreditation of businesses throughout Australia and the
mutual recognition of plant health assurance certificates accompanying consignments of produce moving intrastate or interstate.

In WA, operators of certain types of heavy vehicles must become accredited to gain a permit from Main Roads.
Western Australian Heavy Vehicle Accreditation is mandatory for individuals and organisations that perform any
transport task as part of a commercial business or for profit within Western Australia, including interstate operators.

Accreditation involves two modules - Fatigue and Vehicle Maintenance, which operators are required to incorporate
into their daily work practices.