Maintenance management module
Module description
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.
If you are an accredited operator, you must ensure your vehicles are well maintained so they meet all relevant safety standards. You must keep a record of the maintenance and servicing work done to each vehicle so you can prove that the vehicles are safe at all times. You need to ensure all accredited vehicles comply with the
Transport Operations (Road Use Management – Vehicle Standards and Safety) Regulation 2010 and the relevant Australian Design Rules. These contain mandatory requirements for safe design, construction and maintenance of heavy vehicles.
Specific benefits are:
- eliminating the need for a certificate of inspection for annual registration renewal
- increased vehicle life and lower maintenance costs
- reduced vehicle down time
- improved safety and improved driver morale.
Maintenance management module standards
This is an overview of the eight maintenance standards with which operators must comply and have documented:
- A daily check for each vehicle when in use.
- Fault recording and reporting – provision to record and report vehicle faults on both the hauling and the trailing vehicles to allow them to be assessed and rectified.
- Fault repair – providing for the identification, assessment and action on reported faults.
- Maintenance schedules and methods – with identified service periods that describe the tasks to be completed.
- Records and documentation – to ensure that evidence is kept of the successful operation of the maintenance system and that all relevant documentation is kept safely and available to relevant staff and auditors.
- Responsibilities – the authorities, responsibilities and duties of all positions involved in the management, operation, administration, participation and verification of the maintenance management system are current, clearly defined and documented.
- Internal review – to verify that all results and activities comply with the system's policies, procedures and instructions.
- Training and education – the persons who hold a position of responsibility under the maintenance management system are trained in, and familiar with, the specific policy, procedure and instruction they are to carry out.
- Fuel quality (optional – to qualify for the fuel tax rebate) minimise fuel contamination through correct storage and handling procedures.
Additional informationMore information about the maintenance management module including the business rules and maintenance management accreditation standards can be obtained from the
National Transport Commission* website.
Contact details
For more information regarding vehicle maintenance and technical advice, please phone the Department of Transport and Main Roads' Vehicle Engineering and Access Unit on +61 7 3253 4664†.
For information relating to administration of the scheme, please phone the administrator on +61 7 3253 4041† or email NHVAS@tmr.qld.gov.au.
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