Queensland Consolidated Regulations

TRANSPORT OPERATIONS (PASSENGER TRANSPORT) STANDARD 2010 - REG 20

20 Ensuring drivers are trained in obligations under the Act

(1) An operator of a relevant service must ensure each driver who is to operate a vehicle providing the service is given an introduction to the driver’s obligations under the Act .

(2) However, the operator does not contravene subsection (1) if the operator is satisfied, by documentary evidence, that the driver’s experience, or experience and training, provide an adequate level of knowledge of the obligations.

(3) An operator of a relevant service must ensure each driver who operates a vehicle providing the service is given training, under a documented training program, in the driver’s obligations under the Act .

(4) The driver must be given the training under the program mentioned in subsection (3) within 2 months after the driver first operates the vehicle providing the service.

(5) An operator of a relevant service must keep the following records—

(a) for subsection (1) , evidence of the introduction;

Example of evidence of the introduction—

a training book showing the date, time and place the driver was given training in the driver’s obligations under the Act

(b) for subsection (2) , a copy of the documentary evidence;

(c) for subsection (3) , evidence of each driver’s training under the documented training program.

(6) The evidence of a driver’s training under the documented training program must be enough to ensure the chief executive is able to monitor the driver’s progression through the training program.

(7) The records mentioned in subsection (5) must be kept in such a way that the chief executive is able to monitor from them the operator’s compliance with subsections (1) to (3) .