The first and only industry-led safety management system within Australia’s transport industry has appointed a new vice chair.
The board of the industry’s not-for-profit safety management system has elected Graham Emery as the vice chair.
TruckSafe aims to improve the safety and professionalism of trucking businesses across Australia and, under licence, New Zealand, with the scheme being owned by the Australian Trucking Association (ATA).
TruckSafe chair Paul Fellows says Emery first joined the TruckSafe board back in 2015.
“Graham has helped lead TruckSafe’s evolution from a standards-based accreditation scheme to the best practice safety management system that it is today,” Fellows says.
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“Graham’s election is testament to his experience, outstanding contribution and wise counsel.”
Emery says it’s humbling to be nominated and subsequently elected as vice chair.
“The board is made up of industry professionals who give freely of their time to improve safety within the transport industry. It is a pleasure to sit alongside such a group of committed people,” he says.
“TruckSafe is a safety management scheme that all operators, large and small, should give serious consideration to joining.”
In addition to his role on the TruckSafe board, Emery is the group fleet and maintenance manager at Martin’s Stock Haulage, a key provider of transport services in regional and rural Australia.
Emery joined Martin’s Stock Haulage in 2004. Before then, he worked as a trade qualified mechanic, in livestock industry regulation and in truck and machinery sales.
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