Understanding Total Crash Costs

The Impact On Your Organisation

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‘The ‘Iceberg Effect’

For Every $1 In Known, Quantifiable, Insurance Costs, There Is Between $8 To $53 In Hidden, Unknown, Non-Insurance Costs.
— Research by the International Loss Control Institute
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‘What are these Hidden or Uninsured Costs?

  • Late deliveries or failure to deliver service expectations

  • Lost productivity or efficiency of service provision

  • Brand or reputation damage

  • Investigations & administration costs

  • Training & costs for improvement

  • Penalties and fines

  • Low morale

  • Absenteeism

  • High staff turnover

  • Hiring costs

Source of Above List: NRSPP/Zurich 2015 Webinar: The Total Cost Of Road Risk

Take the risk out of your fleet

IPWEA Plant and Vehicle Management Manual

Contributing Author

IPWEA’s Plant and Vehicle Management Manual is widely recognised as Australia's most comprehensive digital guide for fleet managers.

Our General Manager was the author of the Safe Driving chapter in IPWEA's 2019 Plant and Vehicle Management Manual (e-manual).

This knowledge has been built into the tech and processes that we provide to clients.


And we’re proud members of, and contributors to, the NSRPP.

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