Chain of Responsibility Compliance: What Transport Businesses Need to Know in 2026
Chain of Responsibility compliance is about to matter more than it has in years. On 1 August 2026 the amended Heavy Vehicle National Law (HVNL) commences, alongside the 2026 Master Code. If your business is part of a supply chain that moves freight, your obligations are changing, whether you run a single truck or a […]
Chain of Responsibility Risk Management: Are Your Controls Actually Working?
Most businesses we work with can produce a folder of Chain of Responsibility documentation. Policies, procedures, a risk register, training records. Far fewer can answer a simpler question: are you doing what you say you do? That gap is where chain of responsibility risk management usually fails. A control on paper is not a control […]
The Missing Link – Reviewing Control Effectiveness
At Supply Chain Safety Excellence (SCSE) we specialise in helping our clients review the adequacy and effectiveness of their ‘Chain of Responsibility’ (CoR) business practices and risk controls. Or more simply put, are you doing what you say you do? For example, if you say loaders or drivers will restrain loads using a particular system, […]
Important Information for COR Executive Officers
Amendments to the Chain of Responsibility laws are coming in mid 2018 32 Liability provisions[i] for offences under the revised Heavy Vehicle National Law (HVNL), if an Executive Officer does not “exercise reasonable diligence” to prevent their corporation’s offence[ii]. A total of 148 extended Executive Officer liabilities (including the above)[iii], where an executive officer “knowingly authorised or permitted the […]
