The Driving and Your Health campaign alerts operators and drivers to the importance of health for road safety.

The safe and efficient transport of goods and passengers is vital for this big country of ours, so the task of the commercial vehicle driver is an important and challenging one.

Driver health is a key consideration and one that is identified in the National Heavy Vehicle Safety Strategy 2003-2010.

The Driving and Your Health campaign is a new National Transport Commission (NTC) and Austroads initiative designed to support awareness and action in relation to the health of commercial vehicle drivers.

The campaign follows the recent release of revised driver medical standards Assessing Fitness to Drive, which apply nationally to all commercial vehicle drivers, including drivers of heavy transport vehicles and public passenger vehicles.

Details of the campaign are provided on the NTC website: www.ntc.gov.au which provides information for both operators andcommercial vehicle drivers including:

• information about the health requirements for safe driving including the roles and responsibilities of drivers and operators, and the features of the revised medical standards; and
  
• resources to raise awareness of health issues and the driver medical standards amongst commercial vehicle drivers.

The campaign will also communicate directly to drivers via a comprehensive media strategy, including print and radio media incuding print and radio media.

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