On 31 August 2017, the Australian Ministers for Consumer Affairs agreed to ‘support all steps necessary to expedite the regulatory impact assessment process and any other safety measures necessary to introduce a consumer safety quad bike rating system and a safety standard’. This ACCC report outlines findings from its investigation into a safety standard for...

This Consultation Regulation Impact Statement (RIS) includes the five policy options being considered, the ACCC's preliminary recommendation, as well as a series of questions for stakeholder consideration.

Almost 22,000 people were hospitalised in the period from 2010–11 to 2014–15 as a result of injury which occurred on a farm; over three-quarters of them (77%) were males.

This issues paper includes a series of questions that the ACCC is considering as part of their investigation into quad bike safety and consider the merits of implementing a safety standard for quad bikes under the Australian Consumer Law (ACL).

The independent Quad Bike Workplace Safety Project (QBWSP) was undertaken by the Transport and Road Safety Research Centre at UNSW, under contract to SafeWork NSW.