Your VMP is a legal document. Treat it like one.
Under WHS law, a PCBU must manage the risks of vehicles and mobile plant — and Safe Work Australia's guidance requires traffic management plans to be "monitored and reviewed regularly, including after an incident." A laminated PDF can't do that. A living plan can.
Manage traffic risks
PCBUs must eliminate or minimise risks from vehicle and mobile plant movements — the general duty behind every VMP.
Review regularly
SWA's Traffic Management: Guide for Construction Work requires plans to be monitored and reviewed regularly, including after an incident.
Communicate the plan
A plan that never reaches the crew isn't a control. Workers and visitors must know the current arrangements.
Keep evidence
High-risk construction work near traffic or mobile plant needs a SWMS; projects over $250k need a WHS management plan. Both assume records.
Keep up with the states
Codes of practice vary and evolve — including NSW’s Moving Plant on Construction Sites CoP (December 2025).
What a prohibition notice actually costs.
Under s195 of the WHS Act, an inspector who reasonably believes an activity involves a serious risk can prohibit it until the risk is remedied. On a live civil job that's stopped plant, idle crews, a stalled programme — and a regulator now looking closely at your paperwork.
In SafeWork NSW's 2025 mobile-plant blitz, 285 of 506 notices related to mobile plant and vehicles. The most common gaps: out-of-date plans and controls nobody on the ground had seen.
66%
of worker fatalities in 2024 involved vehicles
Source: Safe Work Australia285 / 506
notices in the 2025 NSW blitz were mobile plant & vehicle related
Source: SafeWork NSW$250k+
construction projects require a written WHS management plan
WHS RegulationDec 2025
NSW Moving Plant on Construction Sites CoP commenced
SafeWork NSWSitePilot supports your compliance processes; it does not guarantee compliance, and nothing on this page is legal advice. Obligations vary by state and by project — always check the WHS legislation and codes of practice that apply to your work.
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