CoR Assessment | Practical Chain of Responsibility Assessment for Australian Transport Operators

A Chain of Responsibility (CoR) Assessment is a structured review of how your transport business manages safety risks across every party in the supply chain. It benchmarks your current controls against industry-compliant standards and gives you clear, executive-level feedback on where the gaps sit.

The assessment is designed for owner-operators, transport managers, executives, consignors, consignees, loaders, schedulers, and contractors — anyone who influences a heavy vehicle transport task.

MAEZ approaches CoR Assessment from an operational perspective, not a legalistic one. The goal is to strengthen your supply chain safety and leave you with practical, evidence-based direction — not a list of problems you can't act on.

For broader context on how CoR obligations work, see About Chain of Responsibility.

MAEZ consultants are industry professionals with years of operational experience in logistics. We are not lawyers, ex-police, or ex-inspectors — and that shapes how we deliver every assessment.

Practical advice

We offer advice that works in the real world. Our reports are written for everyone in your organisation involved in the project, not just compliance specialists.

Targeted, constructive feedback

We are not here to beat up your freight providers or your own people. We feed your gaps back to you constructively, so you can act on them.

Fresh, current frameworks

We do not use a CoR Assessment framework from before the 2018 legislative changes. Our systems and advice stay up to date with current HVNL expectations.

Managed journey

From the first conversation through to the final report, we aim to make the process as straightforward as possible. Our experience and method give you peace of mind throughout the assessment journey.

Every MAEZ CoR Assessment is produced by professionals with decades of senior corporate experience. The output is designed to be read and acted on by people across your business — from executives to operations managers to frontline staff.

What you receive

• An industry-compliant benchmark analysis of your current CoR controls
• Executive-level feedback identifying where your gaps sit and why they matter
• Practical, written recommendations you can implement without needing a legal translator
• A report structured for your whole organisation, not just the compliance team

Where deeper consulting is needed, MAEZ can extend into a full CoR Consulting engagement to help you close the gaps the assessment identifies.

MAEZ Director and Principal Consultant Matthew Wragg has spent decades in senior management roles across major Australian blue-chip companies, including CSR, Linfox, Salmat, and Harris Scarfe.

His qualifications include a Masters Degree in Logistics Management from Sydney University, an Exemplar Audit Cert IV, and a Cert IV in Adult Education. This combination allows Matthew to bring both a careful understanding of safety needs within a transport environment and the commercial awareness that matters when auditing or educating teams across your supply chain.

That commercial lens is what sets a MAEZ assessment apart — the findings are grounded in how transport businesses actually run, not just how the legislation reads on paper.

Client testimonials

• MIELE (2019): "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."

• Kmart (2019): "The report is great and very thorough, thank you so much for your help on this project."

• Sealed Air (2018): "The feedback is great and very inexpensive for what we receive."

• Global Renewables (2018): "The delivery of the final report was thorough."

These organisations span manufacturing, retail, packaging, and renewables — reflecting the breadth of supply chain contexts where CoR obligations apply.

A CoR Assessment is the starting point — not the finish line. MAEZ helps Australian transport businesses turn the findings into practical training, advisory, audit, and implementation pathways across CoR, HVNL, WHS, NHVAS, and chartered risk obligations.

Where assessment findings lead

• Training: Where knowledge gaps are identified, Chain of Responsibility Training builds capability across your team.
• Consulting: Where controls need reworking, CoR Consulting helps you build them around how your business actually operates.
• Evidence and SMS: Where structured records, reminders, audits, driver diary checks, inductions, and corrective actions are needed, the CoRGuard platform at chainresponsibility.au supports the evidence workflow.

MAEZ defines the risk, obligations, controls, and implementation pathway. Where software is the right next step, CoRGuard carries the day-to-day evidence and Safety Management System structure.

Ready to get started? Contact MAEZ for a practical review of the controls, evidence, training, and SMS gaps that matter most to your business.