MAEZ Consulting
Stop losing sleep over transport compliance
MAEZ helps owner-operators get compliant, protect NHVAS accreditation, avoid fines, and build a Safety Management System that actually works. We find the gaps, fix the system, and connect the evidence.
Receiving windows, site rules, and unloading delays can all shape the transport task.
Unloading decisions can affect safety, scheduling, and responsibility.
Managers need a clear view of gaps before audit or enforcement pressure arrives.
Contractor controls should be verified before the work starts.
Consignors
Freight terms, delivery windows, and KPIs must not push drivers into speed, fatigue, or mass breaches.
Consignees
Receiving rules, site access, and unloading delays are CoR controls that need to be set and evidenced.
Loaders
Mass, dimension, and load restraint decisions need documented checks, not assumptions.
Managers
Executives and managers need due-diligence evidence that the Safety Management System is actually working.
Find the gaps before they escalate
MAEZ is an Australian transport compliance advisory and training business helping heavy vehicle operators across Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, and Perth identify and close gaps in maintenance records, fatigue management, work diary checks, contractor vetting, and Safety Management System evidence before those gaps escalate into compliance failures.
Trucks are moving, but the records behind them — maintenance logs, driver diary checks, inductions, and contractor evidence — are often scattered across systems that do not talk to each other. MAEZ helps operators bring those signals together, identify where controls are thin, and take practical action before gaps escalate.
From fatigue and work diary reviews to contractor vetting and maintenance tracking, MAEZ connects the evidence your Safety Management System depends on into a coherent picture you can act on and demonstrate when asked.
We build the Safety Management System around the work
A Safety Management System only works when it reflects what actually happens on the road and in the yard. MAEZ helps operators across Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, and Perth put real, verifiable controls in place rather than paper-based processes that sit unused.
Our advisory covers the full chain of evidence an operator needs to demonstrate a functioning SMS:
- NHVAS accreditation readiness and evidence-gap identification
- Maintenance schedules, vehicle checks, fault recording, and corrective actions
- Fatigue controls and driver work diary review processes
- Internal and contractor audits, document control, and version management
- Staff inductions and contractor inductions tailored to your operation
- Corrective action tracking, management review rhythms, and continuous improvement cycles
- A practical CoRGuard Safety Management System platform recommendation when software is the right fit
Each control is mapped to the work your drivers, schedulers, and maintenance staff already perform, so evidence is generated as a by-product of daily operations. Chain of Responsibility training is delivered via cortraining.com.au, with completion records feeding into your SMS. When a regulator or customer asks for proof, you can produce it quickly.
Training, advice, and software each have a job
MAEZ fixes the compliance system. Chain of Responsibility training is delivered through cortraining.com.au. CoRGuard is the SaaS Safety Management System platform for maintenance, driver diaries, audits, document control, staff and contractor inductions, alerts, records, and reporting.
Client feedback
What clients say
Feedback from businesses that have had a MAEZ Chain of Responsibility assessment.
“Working with MAEZ was a breeze, the co-ordination of the assessment, the report itself and following information was all professional and of an outstanding quality. Looking forward to an ongoing partnership with MAEZ.”
“The report is great and very thorough, thank you so much for your help on this project.”
“The feedback is great and very inexpensive for what we receive.”
“The delivery of the final report was thorough.”
How MAEZ works
Find the gaps. Fix the system. Prove the controls.
MAEZ helps transport operators deal with the compliance risk they already know is there. We help get the Safety Management System in order, protect NHVAS accreditation, reduce fine exposure, and connect training, evidence, and CoRGuard workflows where software is needed.
Find
Identify what is exposed before an auditor or regulator does.
Fix
Build the SMS controls around how the transport business actually runs.
Prove
Use CoRGuard where records, reminders, diaries, audits, and evidence need structure.
From advice to evidence
From MAEZ advice to a working Safety Management System
Advisory work should leave a practical implementation trail. These examples show how CoRGuard supports records, fatigue and driver diary checks, maintenance, audits, document control, inductions, corrective actions, and evidence review after MAEZ identifies the gaps.
Training records
Connect training completion from cortraining.com.au to evidence and follow-up.
Driver diary checks
Connect fatigue and driver diary review back to manager visibility.
Corrective actions
Turn audit findings, hazards and incidents into tracked actions.
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Frequently asked questions
Questions people ask about this topic
Who needs Chain of Responsibility training?
Chain of Responsibility training is relevant for the people whose decisions influence a heavy vehicle journey: employers of drivers, prime contractors, operators, schedulers, consignors, consignees, packers, loading managers, loaders and unloaders, and the executives who run those businesses. Under the HVNL each party shares responsibility for the safety of its transport activities. MAEZ delivers role-based courses online via cortraining.com.au.
What is CoR in Australia?
CoR, or Chain of Responsibility, is the legal framework under the Heavy Vehicle National Law (HVNL) that extends road transport compliance duties beyond the driver to every party in the supply chain. This includes consignors, packers, loaders, operators, schedulers and executives. The primary duty under s26C requires all parties to ensure transport activities are safe so far as reasonably practicable. The NHVR administers CoR in participating jurisdictions.
What are the key principles of the Chain of Responsibility?
The key principles of Chain of Responsibility are shared responsibility (s26A) and the primary duty (s26C). Under s26A, all parties in the transport chain share responsibility for safety. Under s26C, each party must ensure heavy vehicle transport activity is carried out safely so far as reasonably practicable. The HVNL requires parties to prevent breaches rather than react to them, covering mass, loading, dimension, speed, fatigue, and vehicle standards.
What are the Big 5 CoR safety risks?
The Big 5 Chain of Responsibility safety risks are speed, fatigue, mass, dimension and load restraint. These are the areas the NHVR most frequently assesses during audits and investigations. MAEZ training covers all five, along with executive due diligence.
Is MAEZ's Chain of Responsibility training accredited?
No. MAEZ's courses are MAEZ's own training, delivered online via cortraining.com.au, and each learner receives a certificate of completion. The HVNL does not prescribe a particular Chain of Responsibility course; it requires each party in the chain to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the safety of its transport activities and to be able to show how.