Understanding your obligations with ‘shared’ responsibility in the Chain of Responsibility CoR 2018.
As many of you are aware on October 1st 2018, the Heavy Vehicle National Law (HVNL) was amended to provide that every party in the heavy vehicle transport supply chain has a Primary Duty to ensure the safety of their transport activities. The noteworthy part of these CoR changes is that all parties must now ensure safety “so far as is reasonably practicable” to eliminate/ minimise public risk and ensure that no-one directly or indirectly encourages drivers to contravene HVNL.