AN120071 – Boral Resources (NSW) Pty Limited Sydney Metropolitan Concrete Contract Determination
1. Access to Cartage Work System
1.1 Boral and all Operators believe that Boral, Operators, and fleet owner six and eight wheeler vehicles (in this Annexure "vehicles") should have, as far as operationally practicable, reasonable access to the cartage work.
1.2 It is acknowledged by the parties that it is operationally impractical to seek to achieve absolute equality of access to the cartage work.
1.3 For the purpose of monitoring and managing cartage work it is agreed that the process described below will be applied to vehicles using the same plant as their nominated plant.
1.4 It is agreed that the process for achieving reasonable access to cartage work should not impact Boral's ability to provide customer service and these requirements may from time to time vary the process described.
1.5 Reasonable access to the cartage work will be measured by a points system determined method outlined below.
1.6 It is the intention of the parties that, to the fullest extent that is operationally practicable, vehicles owned and operated by Boral should achieve levels of productivity comparable with those achieved by Operators undertaking cartage work under similar circumstances
1.7 To avoid any doubt, subject to Boral complying with the points system below, Boral accepts no liability for any Operator or fleet owner who may for whatever reason, not achieve reasonable access to cartage work.
2. Management of Access to Cartage Work
2.1 Endeavours to achieve reasonable access to cartage work shall be the responsibility of and managed by Boral, using a combination of:
(a) the application of a points system to monitor access to work which will be referred to for decision making in regard to rosters, and transfers;
(b) selective rostering of vehicles which have a higher number of points in regard to others by applying start and finishing rosters; and
(c) creation of a work pool comprising vehicles identified through analysis as experiencing access to work outside a statistical range.
3. Determination of Access to Cartage Work
3.1 Reasonable access to cartage work will be measured by plant for vehicles.
3.2 Vehicles will be ranked according to the following point system based on work completed:
Item |
Points |
Loads Carted |
1 Load = 5 points |
Kilometres Travelled (Or Part Thereof) |
1 km = 0.40 points |
Waiting Time |
1 Minute = 0.20 point |
3.3 To compensate for Operator/driver behaviour which may impact upon the number of loads carted adjustment factors will be applied to aid in accurately determining reasonable access to cartage work.
3.4 Only on regular days (refer to the Dictionary), additional adjustment points will be assigned to vehicles according to the following:
Reason |
Adjustment |
Late. not available to load at designated start time |
15 points |
Early Knock Off before 12 noon |
25 points |
Early Knock Off After 12 noon |
15 points |
Full day absence without prior approval in accordance with contract |
50 points |
4. Ranking & Loading
4.1 Vehicles will be ranked daily from highest to lowest based on the points system with records held in a Boral database. The database shall be updated continuously on a vehicle by vehicle basis, over a rolling twelve month period recording earned and adjustment points (i.e. at the end of each calendar day data for the corresponding day of the previous year ceases to be relevant to the system).
4.2 On the following day vehicles with the lowest number of cumulative points will be the first vehicles to load and the last vehicles to be rostered off. The determination of the number of vehicles to be rostered off by plant will be subject to Boral's discretion to meet customer requirements. If vehicles are equal in points then the Operators with the least number of adjustment points will be ranked first in the roster.
4.3 At the end of every month a statistical evaluation will be run for vehicles over the cumulative total points scored (including adjustment points) from the database and vehicles with a standard deviation considered to be outside an agreed range will be offered the opportunity to participate in a work pool.
4.4 Work pool vehicles will be preferentially selected in the order identified from the statistical evaluation to participate in periodic transfers for a period not exceeding one month. These vehicles will be the first selected to transfer to plants which require additional capacity. After the selection of the work pool vehicles standard transfer rules will apply to other vehicles.
4.5 If the owner of a vehicle declines the opportunity to become a work pool vehicle for that month they will incur adjustment points to a value that returns them to the average cumulative number of points for their nominated plant.
5. Management System
5.1 To facilitate the monitoring and management of these measures Boral shall maintain computer based records of the number of earned points and applied adjustment points by vehicle. It is estimated that this system will run two days in arrears of work completed.
It will be the responsibility of the plant supervisor and Operator representative at that plant to determine adjustment points for each vehicle and ensure they are applied. The results of points by vehicle (including adjustment points) will be posted at the plant.
5.2 Out of hours work such as night work and Sundays shall not be included in the points allocation system.
5.3 Should an Operator wish to forego participation in the work pool that vehicle shall be allocated adjustment points to a value that returns that vehicle to the average cumulative points applicable at that plant. Thereafter it shall continue in the monthly statistical review. Should a vehicle which has participated in the pool remain eligible for allocation to the pool at the next review occasion, the vehicle may defer participation without adjustment points being applied for that review period only.
5.4 New entrants to the Access to Work System shall be allocated points at the end of the month in which they commence equivalent to the previous rolling twelve month period average for all vehicles operating from their nominated plant.
5.5 Adjustment points will be applied for all participating vehicles for leave taken on regular days. For the purposes of this clause 5.5 only regular days shall be as defined in the dictionary under "regular day" (d) (when the operator owns the mixer).
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