Course Overview

Defensive driving presents participants with an awareness of defensive driving. Defensive driving is a way to anticipate problems in order to prevent motor vehicle collisions and the resulting injuries, deaths, and property damage.

Defensive Driving Courses teach drivers how to recognize and react to immediate and potential hazardous driving situations and conditions. Our instructor-led, classroom courses provide collision prevention strategies and defensive driving techniques that focus on behavior, judgement, decision making and consequences.

These highly interactive courses will help influence drivers to make positive choices to improve driving behaviors and attitudes and encourage respectful and lawful decisions to avoid motor vehicle incidents and decrease traffic violations.

Who should attend?

Workers who drive a car, van, or small truck for their jobs and supervisors of workers who drive for work.

Course Objectives:

• Identify Driving Hazards
• Understand Defensive Driving Techniques
• Use Defensive Driving Techniques to Prevent Accidents and Injuries

Prerequisites

Participants should have a valid driving license.

 Course Duration:

The course duration is customized to be in 1 full day.

Course Contents

The course will cover the following topics in addition to practical training:

Section 1 — It’s All About Choices

• Define “defensive driving”
• Explain what it means to be a defensive driver
• Define “reasonable action” and “preventable collisions”
• Determine your personal driving profile
• Driving attitudes and behaviors
• List the basic steps in the DDC Collision Prevention Formula
• Explain the “What if?” strategy.

Section 2 — Ready for The Road

• Recognize how age and other physical, emotional, and mental conditions may affect your driving and driving of others
• Explain the defensive driving techniques you can use to control or compensate for those conditions in yourself and other drivers
• List the vehicle equipment that you should check before driving or at regular intervals
• Explain the critical importance of occupant protection systems and how they are safely used, including special considerations for children
• Explain how to drive defensively in conditions beyond your control—such as light, weather, road conditions and traffic mix

Section 3 — Don’t Add Insult to Injury

• Describe the characteristics of impaired, distracted, fatigued and aggressive drivers
• Identify the actions you can take when you experience or encounter these characteristics on the road
• Employ techniques to manage your emotions and behavior while driving

Section 4 — Success on The Road

• List the six most unsafe driving behaviors
• Describe the hazards involved with each of the unsafe driving behaviors
• List alternatives to speeding
• Explain how to safely approach and proceed through intersections
• Explain how to make safe and legal turns
• Explain the steps needed to complete a safe pass
• Determine a safe following distance

Section 5 — Collision Proofing

• Apply the DDC Collision Prevention Formula
• Explain the “What If” strategy
• Recognize the hazards in collision scenarios
• Identify standard road signs, colors and shapes
• Identify reasonable steps that might have prevented real-life collisions

Section 6 — Driving for Life

• List the ten habits of defensive driving
• Identify personal behaviors and decisions you will make in future driving situations to avoid collisions and violations

Course Material:

The participants shall receive soft copy for the course material.

Course Certification

Attending all sessions of the course is mandatory for getting the local certificate and if requested the international Certificate from the National Safety Counsil (NSC) in the USA.