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Significant Increase in CoR Fines & Prosecutions
Are you feeling the rise in living costs? How would your corporation pay penalties for $3,546,390 for a Category 1 offence? How would your family cope if you had to face jail time?
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Significant Increase in CoR Fines & Prosecutions
NHVR penalties increase from 1 July 2022 Are you feeling the rise in living costs? How would your corporation pay penalties for $3,546,390 for a Category 1 offence? How would your family cope if you had to face jail time? As all the living costs are increasing, the NHVR penalties continue to grow also. The NHVR has indexed their penalties as they do each year on 1 July. Penalty increases from the NHVR include those for category 1, 2 and 3 offences. Category One Chain of Responsibility offence is now – $3,546,390 From a review of the penalties being handed out by the NHVR, it is evident that they are starting to clamp down on the rules. In the past 12 months, there have been 28 penalties handed out, as compared with 19 in the previous 12 months, resulting in a 147% increase in fines being handed out. Whats In It For You? We’ve recently seen an South Australian based concrete company liquidated due to a significant fine imposed. So what can you do to reduce your risk individually and as a corporation? We are all human, and we all make mistakes. It is a matter of having as many systems and procedures in place as possible to mitigate the risk. Now is an excellent time to review those risks and practices in your business to ensure you are doing everything possible. Is the fatigue and speed in your organisation being reviewed, or mass and load restraint checked before a heavy vehicle departs your loading facility? Do you actually understand what your requirements are? Engage Your Employees Our online training is a great place to start if you are unsure of your requirements under the HVNL (Heavy Vehicle National Law). You can purchase as little as one seat, or if you are looking to purchase in bulk, contact MAEZ on 1300 553 811 to enquire further. Don’t follow the trend which is starting to occur and let a fine ruin your business or your life. Learn about CoR today! Not sure if you need to or would benefit from training in your business? Learn more here .
How this connects to MAEZ now
MAEZ helps Australian businesses turn Chain of Responsibility, HVNL, WHS, transport safety, and chartered risk obligations into practical training, advisory, audit, and implementation pathways. Where software is the right next step, CoRGuard at chainresponsibility.au supports the evidence workflow.
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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.
Evidence path
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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What is the purpose of Significant Increase in CoR Fines & Prosecutions?
Are you feeling the rise in living costs? How would your corporation pay penalties for $3,546,390 for a Category 1 offence? How would your family cope if you had to face jail time?
Who should read this page?
This page is useful for owner-operators, transport managers, executives, consignors, consignees, loaders, schedulers, contractors, and anyone who influences a heavy vehicle transport task.
What does MAEZ help transport businesses fix?
MAEZ helps Australian transport and supply-chain businesses identify Chain of Responsibility, HVNL, WHS, NHVAS, training, audit, document-control, and Safety Management System gaps, then turn those gaps into practical controls and evidence.
Is Chain of Responsibility training handled on this website?
MAEZ provides the advisory and risk pathway, but Chain of Responsibility training is delivered through cortraining.com.au. Where software is needed, CoRGuard supports the Safety Management System evidence workflow.
How does CoRGuard fit with MAEZ consulting?
MAEZ helps define the risk, obligations, controls, and implementation pathway. CoRGuard is the SaaS Safety Management System platform used when the business needs structured records, reminders, audits, maintenance, driver diary checks, inductions, corrective actions, and evidence reporting.