Driver assessments built around fatigue, not paperwork.

Fatigue history and tolerance, shift and night work, medications that matter behind the wheel, musculoskeletal capacity for load restraint and manual handling, and the psychosocial demands of solo, remote and customer-facing work. For heavy vehicle operations, fatigue is not just a rostering problem: it is a duty shared along the chain, and it starts with who you put in the seat.

Under the Heavy Vehicle National Law, every party in the chain of responsibility holds a primary duty to ensure the safety of transport activities, with driver fatigue at the centre of it. The WHS primary duty extends to any person put at risk by the work, which on the road means the public. Both expect documented, proactive risk management, and a role-mapped fatigue and health assessment before the first shift is dated evidence of it. Remote and isolated work and exposure to aggression in public-facing delivery are recognised psychosocial hazards, unpacked on the psychosocial risk assessments page.

Assessments are assembled from role-specific modules: fatigue, shift work, medications, general medical, functional capacity and psychological health where the role demands it. Integrated drug and alcohol screening runs through Medrisk’s pathology network in the same flow, with candidate eReferrals and walk-in collection 7 days a week.

Drivers are recruited in every depot town, not just capital cities. Medrisk assessments are digital, completed on the candidate’s phone in under 30 minutes wherever they are, and determined by an occupational health doctor within hours. National coverage across Australia and New Zealand, with no clinic detours between offer and first shift.