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Latest issues
- Director's message
- Bus accreditation fee waiver
- Changes to bus operator certification
- Who is responsible for driver medical fitness?
- Reporting road hazards
- Meet our new team members
- Updated COVID-19 information
- Director's message
- Learning to love your improvement notice
- New audit process guidance
- The bus safety regulator and bus operators - a partnership in progress
- Have you considered all your safety duties?
- The benefits of shared depots
- Free 'wear a mask while travelling' stickers available
- Bus accreditation fee relief coming soon...
- Director's message
- Grow your COVIDSafe plan
- Getting the fundamentals of bus safety right
- Changed incident category reporting being enforced
- We're still out there
- Reminder: Requirement to display identification
- Book us to present at your meeting
- Vaccine rollout for bus drivers begins
- Director's message
- Being COVIDSafe for the Victorian bus industry
- Bus Safety Regulations 2020 - items that come into effect in 2021
- Buses don't come with accredited plates
- Are personalised accredited number plates available?
- Update to bus testing categories
2019
- Director's message
- A tale of two suspensions
- Alpine audit program and risk management
- The importance of reporting incidents
- Don't risk your accreditation
- Bus Safety Week 2020
- Director's message
- Taste for safety at winery
- Regional bus seminars
- Importance of work diaries
- Get set for snow
- Risk register issues
- Bus Safety Director update
- Focus on tour and charter bus sector safety
- Fire extinguishers - what's the problem?
- New heavy vehicle plates
- Staff profile: Introducing Mal
2018
- Safety Alert: Risk of wiring loom catching fire
- Bus safety blitz – Multiple infringements
- Approved bus safety course updated
- Prized students receive bus safety awards
- Operator fined after fatal crash on Great Ocean Road
- Unaccredited operators prosecuted
- Blitz on tour and charter services
- Audit program
- Bus Safety Week 2018
- Unannounced inspections
- Transdev improving bus safety
- Alpine operation demonstrates safety culture
- Worn wire casing leads to fire in roof cavity
- What defines a reportable bus incident?
- Dee Decker loses accreditation
- Safer buses on the Great Ocean Road
- Bus news from around Australia
- Inquiry after eight buses deemed unroadworthy
- VicPol and TSV investigate Puffing Billy bus crash
- Compliance activity update
- Lunar New Year
2017
- Take a back seat for senior bus passengers
- Want to try out the Autonobus?
- Bus news from around Australia
- Charges over Montague St bridge crash
- TSV grounds 12 buses
- Phillip Island buses impress
- Looking to the future of transport safety - autonomous bus trial
- School and snow bus inspections
- Our team is here to help
- Bus incident statistics released for Q2 2017
- Meet the Acting Director
- Bus operator ordered to get vehicles roadworthy
- Departing Director honoured
- Bus lane changes for bike riders and coaches
- Amendments to the Chain of Responsibility laws
- Director Bus Safety departs TSV
- Joining forces for Melbourne Airport compliance activity
- Follow-up visit
- Officers uncover common issue for operators
- No serious injuries to bus passengers last month
- Rollaways presentation at bus expo
- Buses rev up for Safety Week
- Bus Safety Forum in Melbourne
- Bus incident statistics: Q1 2017
- First bus forum of 2017 a success
- Recent bus compliance activities
- Danger of driver distractions
- Collaborating for safety
- Compliance operations: Phillip Island, Twelve Apostles
- Bus forum dates announced
- Survey on safety
2016
- Arthurs Seat: Clearing the Eagle
- Recent prosecutions
- Happy holidays from TSV
- Bus rollaways research released
- Compliance activity: Dunkeld Races, Melbourne Airport
- Improvements to incident reporting
- Bus operators: Have your say
- Bus Branch boost: New recruits
- You bet we're checking vehicles at the Geelong Cup
- Assaults on bus drivers
- All aboard NSW Bus Safety Week
- Bus incident statistics: Q3 2016
- Welcome to the first edition of Omnibus
- Safety culture guidelines
- Summary of prosecutions
- Idle hands throwing rocks and eggs
