Spilt Milk Project

In 2021, NTI identified through its claims data that dairy tanker operations were experiencing a disproportionately high frequency and severity of incidents when compared to other comparable occupations.  As part of NTI’s commitment to living its values of helping industry towards a safety and more sustainable future, NTI applied for and received a National Heavy Vehicle Regulator (NHVR) Heavy Vehicle Safety Initiative (HVSI) grant to explore dairy tanker safety challenges and to build resource to support the dairy industry to improve its road safety performance.

The project received fantastic support from the dairy industry, with the majority of major processors and all major dairy carriers opting to participate, providing access to their processes, insights and expertise.  This project was named ‘Spilt Milk’ and had a simple premise, that nobody knows more about dairy tanker safety, than the dairy industry.  It sought to identify common challenges, best practice responses to those challenges and pockets of innovation and then scale them to be available to the entire dairy industry.

The full outline of NTI Spilt Milk Project can be found on the NRSPP’s Organisational Campaign