The 2024 Australian Flexible Pavement Association (AfPA) & Traffic Management Association of Australia (TMAA) are collaborating to deliver the QLD Safety Forum which recognises in the dynamic landscape of flexible pavement maintenance and construction work, ensuring the safety of both road workers and the communities they serve is paramount.

Both at a National and State level, the need has been identified to facilitate a cross-industry exchange and collaboration between subject matter experts, practitioners and participants from across industry and all levels of Government, to identify the issues impacting road worker and road user safety.

This Forum focuses on key specific areas:

• Separation of People and Traffic, and
• Separation of People and Plant.

These two areas are to be drawn together at days end session targeting the current IR health and safety regulations, safework requirements and psychosocial hazards and risks.

The Forum is designed to:

• share insights on various crucial aspects of road worksite safety,
• stocktake what is currently leading practice and identify what pre-existing industry investment has been made,
• ask the question of what industry is currently doing in terms of what value current controls and practices offer as well as what is currently being achieved and the current trends/statistics, and
• engage in moderated brainstorming sessions focusing on identifying and addressing these risks and ultimately to develop innovative mitigation strategies.