Safety Sense in Vermont South, Victoria, Australia | Education

Safety Sense

Locality: Vermont South, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 458 077 710

Address: 117 Weeden Drive 3133 Vermont South, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.safetysenseoz.com.au/

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21.05.2022 1st day of a 5 day stint at Narre Warren South Secondary College. 250 kids will go through the program. This is our 4th year at the school, who wholeheartedly support this Road Safety Awareness Activity.

26.03.2022 Seen the lot. Talk about addiction !!! This young lady thought that by attaching the mobile to the steering wheel might be an easy way to use it. Just spent the last 2 weeks at Dromana Secondary College and Caulfield Grammar School. Just on 500 year 10’s completed our Simulated Road Safety Awareness Program.... We emphasised that the Elimination of Risk is paramount if we are to reduce the numbers of young people being seriously injured killed on our roads. Sadly, 12 young lives have been lost so far this year. Each one of the 500 received a free Keys2Drive driving lesson. Which,in addition to the Safety Sense Awareness program, might just help these kids understand that when they join us on the roads they need to be safe drivers not irresponsible when behind the wheel. Sometimes you have to be brutally honest with these kids. We continually remind them that road trauma affects many including staff at Tobin Brothers, who have to prepare funerals for those young people unfortunate enough to lose their lives on our roads. The preparation including the sadness of consoling parents, family and friends at the funeral is stressful. I hope the silence that is evident when discussing this is because they are thinking about what would obviously be the worst case scenario for irresponsible driving. Off to Crusoe College in Bendigo in the next few weeks. As in previous visits, always good working with the kids up there.

19.01.2022 Had the pleasure working with the apprentice Jockey’s at Flemington last week. The amount of kms travelled per annum can be around 50,000. As explained by by Darren Gauchi you can travel to Swan Hill one day then down to Sale the next, plus early morning track work and in the sauna can be a recipe for fatigue. We worked on the dangers of mobile phone use, Impaired driving. We highlighted that if you eliminated risk the chances of a serious crash are negated over and over. T...errific group to work with. They again would much rather work with this type of technology rather than DVD’s, watching ads or lectures. We have some exciting stuff coming up which we hope could turn into some pilot programs both here and in NSW. Bit of water to go under the bridge yet, but we are getting closer to an announcement.

12.01.2022 Seen the lot. Talk about addiction !!! This young lady thought that by attaching the mobile to the steering wheel might be an easy way to use it. Just spent the last 2 weeks at Dromana Secondary College and Caulfield Grammar School. Just on 500 year 10’s completed our Simulated Road Safety Awareness Program.... We emphasised that the Elimination of Risk is paramount if we are to reduce the numbers of young people being seriously injured killed on our roads. Sadly, 12 young lives have been lost so far this year. Each one of the 500 received a free Keys2Drive driving lesson. Which,in addition to the Safety Sense Awareness program, might just help these kids understand that when they join us on the roads they need to be safe drivers not irresponsible when behind the wheel. Sometimes you have to be brutally honest with these kids. We continually remind them that road trauma affects many including staff at Tobin Brothers, who have to prepare funerals for those young people unfortunate enough to lose their lives on our roads. The preparation including the sadness of consoling parents, family and friends at the funeral is stressful. I hope the silence that is evident when discussing this is because they are thinking about what would obviously be the worst case scenario for irresponsible driving. Off to Crusoe College in Bendigo in the next few weeks. As in previous visits, always good working with the kids up there.

09.01.2022 Out at Djerriwarrh today with a group of kids who took part in a road safety day sponsored by Melton City Council. Jan Webb and Kim Leech do a great job pulling this together. There were a number kids who were in the simulator this time last year and remembered exactly what they did. Great for the future of this Technology. Jan has a passion for road safety and does a wonderful job for the youth in Melton. The councils sponsorship these programs is a confirmation that they ...are really pro-active in their efforts to curb the road toll in the municipality. We’re off to Norwood Secondary school next week and hopefully back to Melton at the end of the month.

08.01.2022 2018 has seen a significant reduction in the Road Toll. Tragic nonetheless !! Many avoidable. Safety Sense has had over 20,000 15 year olds partake in the program. Since our inception in 2014 a proportion of these kids would have turned 18 and 19. The numbers that lost their lives in this age demograpic have been reduced by over 50%. In 2 interviews I have heard so far from the TAC and the government are saying the rope barriers are doing the job, True, but nothing about education. Maybe, just maybe, our program has played a small part. We are only part of the solution and a looking to changing the TAC’s attitude toward simulation. We are working with a national organisation to help us break the shackles. If this plan comes to fruition we will have all year 10’s participating in the program.

03.01.2022 Those who know me are aware of the passion I have in Road Safety. Frustrating that many people in the Industry talk about new ideas. The summit on Friday had the same people that are trying to stem the road toll. Fantastic stuff but nothing new. We need to try different things. The blind ad won’t be seen by the most vulnerable - young people they don’t watch TV. The kids will tell you that. Listen to them is one idea. We preach to them and continually tell them what to do. Why not ask them what they want us to do to make them safe. Such a simple thing yet the experts won’t change tac. You want an idea, there’s one.