Join Tony Battaglene and guest Henrik Wallgren, Business Services Manager for the South Australian Wine Industry Association (SAWIA), as they discuss the use of heavy vehicles in the Australian wine industry, particularly throughout Vintage, and addressing the Changes to the Chain of Responsibility (CoR) laws that were introduced on 1 October 2018. Australian Grape & Wine have collaborated with SAWIA to establish a Registered National Industry Code of Practice, through a grant from the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator. A nation-wide consultation process commenced in 2020, however due to ongoing, unstable border restrictions, consultations in-region will resume in 2022.
Chain of Responsibility is designed to ensure everyone in the supply chain play their part in ensuring the safety of their transport activities, so that breaches of the Heavy Vehicle National Law do not occur. Vintage is a peak time for the use of heavy vehicles in the wine industry and with this, comes certain legal obligations of drivers, wineries, grape growers and vineyard contractors for ensuring the safe transportation of goods. The Registered National Industry Code of Practice will include framework that ensures goods are not overloaded, that they are secured properly and that drivers are not encouraged or pressured to speed or drive while fatigued. For the duty holder (eg a winery receiving grapes, a grape grower loading grapes onto a truck and a transporter carting grapes or finished wine), ignorance is not an excuse and the cost of non-compliance is significant.
Join Tony Battaglene and guest Henrik Wallgren, Business Services Manager for the South Australian Wine Industry Association (SAWIA), as they discuss the use of heavy vehicles in the Australian wine industry, particularly throughout Vintage, and addressing the Changes to the Chain of Responsibility (CoR) laws that were introduced on 1 October 2018. Australian Grape & Wine have collaborated with SAWIA to establish a Registered National Industry Code of Practice, through a grant from the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator. A nation-wide consultation process commenced in 2020, however due to ongoing, unstable border restrictions, consultations in-region will resume in 2022.
Chain of Responsibility is designed to ensure everyone in the supply chain play their part in ensuring the safety of their transport activities, so that breaches of the Heavy Vehicle National Law do not occur. Vintage is a peak time for the use of heavy vehicles in the wine industry and with this, comes certain legal obligations of drivers, wineries, grape growers and vineyard contractors for ensuring the safe transportation of goods. The Registered National Industry Code of Practice will include framework that ensures goods are not overloaded, that they are secured properly and that drivers are not encouraged or pressured to speed or drive while fatigued. For the duty holder (eg a winery receiving grapes, a grape grower loading grapes onto a truck and a transporter carting grapes or finished wine), ignorance is not an excuse and the cost of non-compliance is significant.