Avetta & BG Road Safety boost road transport safety

Avetta has formed a strategic partnership with consultancy BG Road Safety and added a road transport module to its Avetta One supply chain risk management platform.

The agreement brings together Avetta's supplier prequalification and risk management software with BG Road Safety's road transport risk frameworks. It targets Australian organisations that rely on trucking, heavy vehicles, and contractor-managed fleet operations.

The launch comes as Australian businesses face increased scrutiny of road transport risks from regulators, boards, and insurers. Under the Heavy Vehicle National Law, Chain of Responsibility obligations apply across the supply chain. Workplace health and safety laws also place duties on persons conducting a business or undertaking, including where transport work is performed by contractors.

Australia's geography and industry mix add operational pressure. Mining, energy, construction, and infrastructure projects often involve long-haul routes and remote sites, which can increase fatigue risk and complicate maintenance and emergency response arrangements.

Road transport module

The module sits within Avetta One as a road transport assessment tool. It provides a structured way to identify transport risk, assess contractor controls, and document gaps.

Avetta positions the module as a shift beyond basic compliance checks, aimed at showing how organisations manage transport risk in practice. It also links the approach to board reporting and to the scrutiny that can follow serious incidents, including regulatory and coronial attention.

For suppliers, the module integrates with Avetta's prequalification process, giving transport providers a way to demonstrate safety practices when engaging with large hiring organisations. Avetta operates as a network between hiring clients and their suppliers across several industries.

BG Road Safety advises companies in sectors with higher exposure to transport risk, including mining, manufacturing, construction, and utilities. Its work covers the movement of materials, supplies, and personnel across complex geographies. Under the partnership, its methodologies are embedded in the platform as part of the assessment framework.

Governance focus

The partnership reflects a shift in transport risk from a narrow contractor issue to a broader governance issue. Under Chain of Responsibility, legal exposure can extend beyond the transport operator to parties involved in consigning, scheduling, and other upstream decisions that influence outcomes.

Regulatory expectations have also shifted towards evidence of decision-making. Organisations may need to show what they knew about transport risks and how they responded, increasing the importance of documentation and controls, as well as contractor selection and oversight.

In this context, Avetta's module is positioned as a way to capture consistent information across suppliers. The companies describe the approach as data-led and say it supports benchmarking road transport safety across the supplier base.

Avetta Chief Revenue Officer Jeff Kristick said the partnership addresses a widely distributed risk in supply chains.

"Road transport is one of the most complex and risk-prone areas of almost every supply chain," said Jeff Kristick, Chief Revenue Officer, Avetta.

He said the assessment supports supplier selection and assurance, while helping suppliers stand out.

"In partnering with BG Road Safety, we're giving our clients a new level of visibility and assurance by helping them identify, qualify and work with the safest, most reliable road transportation suppliers. At the same time, we're helping these suppliers showcase their safety maturity as a true differentiator in the market," said Kristick.

BG Road Safety CEO Dean Aravidis said legal exposure in Australia has widened beyond the transport provider.

"In Australia, road transport risks no longer sit solely with the transport provider as legal exposure extends to consignors, schedulers and upstream decision-makers," said Dean Aravidis, CEO, BG Road Safety.

He said organisations are increasingly expected to demonstrate that controls work in practice, not just that policies exist.

"What organisations are being asked to demonstrate now is not just that policies exist, but that transport risks are understood, assessed and actively controlled in practice. Embedding this assessment framework into Avetta gives Australian businesses a clear line of sight between their legal duties, operational risk and assurance activities, particularly as fleets grow and supply chains become more complex," said Aravidis.

The partnership sits within Avetta's broader partner programme, which it uses to expand the platform's scope. Avetta says the programme focuses on strengthening how customers manage risk across supply chains and how suppliers present credentials during procurement and contracting.