Road safety
ERA takes road safety very seriously. The consequences of a moment of inattention while in control of a vehicle can be devastating. To promote safe driving in the broader community and to protect our people, ERA has produced a Road Safety DVD.
We envisage that raising awareness of safer practices on the road will result in improved driver behaviour, making our roads a safer place to be.
The 260km light vehicle commute from ERA's Ranger mine near Jabiru to Darwin represents a bigger risk of our people coming to harm than anything else we do.
This production will be screened regularly in all facets of the business, and is provided for the benefit of the local community. Please share this production with your families, colleagues, friends and loved ones.
Click here to watch the ERA Safe Driving DVD
To view the DVD in a larger screen size, click on the "expand" icon located in the bottom right hand corner of the pop-up screen as shown below. 
It is a sad fact that the Northern Territory has some of the most grim road statistics in the developed world. People who travel on Territory roads are three times more likely to be killed on roads in this jurisdiction than anywhere else in Australia. We all have a responsibility to be vigilant about road safety, and we all have our part to play in reducing the risk of incident or injury on the roads.
What is ERA doing to try to make Territory roads safer for its people and the community?
ERA has very high standards around driving on company business, and is recognised as having a strong focus on promoting safer driving among its workforce.
We are committed to doing all we can to protect our people and other road users from getting hurt.
ERA has a proactive Light Vehicle Safety Standards Committee which works to promote road safety across the business, and ERA is also a key driver of external working groups to work to enhance road safety among commercial users of the Arnhem highway.
ERA is also a key driver of community events, discussions and forums to promote road safety and improve driver behaviour, and works in close collaboration with the Northern Territory Government and the transport industry to promote the highest standards of road safety both in business and in the community.
The company has a light vehicle policy which sets out stringent guidelines for conduct while driving on company business.
The most commonly travelled routes our people use for work travel are the Stuart and Arnhem highways, which have specific hazards that all drivers should take into account.
These hazards include changing road conditions; heavy vehicles; fatigue on long stretches of road; tourist vehicles; wandering stock and animals, setting and rising sun and heavy rain.
The facts: Driving in the Northern Territory; (*statistics from NT Government)
- Almost half of all fatal road crashes in the NT involve a driver who is over the legal blood alcohol limit of 0.05.
- In more than 50 per cent of fatal crashes in the NT since 2000, seatbelts were not worn when they were available.
- The risk of crashing when driving after being awake for 17 hours is equivalent to having a blood alcohol reading of 0.05.
- Increasing your average speed while driving from 100kmph to 110 kmph has been shown to increase serious injury in a road crash by about 33 per cent. The risk of a crash at this speed being fatal is increased by 46 per cent.
For more information on road safety in the Northern Territory, go to http://www.saferoaduse.nt.gov.au/
