Course Overview
This training provides essential awareness for understanding the risks, responsibilities, and safe working practices associated with driving for work. The course is designed to help participants understand how driving-related activities form part of workplace health and safety management, and how safe driving behaviours can help prevent incidents, injuries, vehicle damage, and harm to road users.
Participants will gain awareness of employer and employee responsibilities, journey planning, driver fitness, vehicle checks, hazard awareness, and the importance of following company procedures when driving on behalf of the organisation.
Key Topics Covered
What is Driving for Work?
Understanding what is meant by driving for work, including journeys carried out for business purposes, travel between work locations, use of company vehicles, and work-related use of private vehicles where applicable.
Legal and Safety Responsibilities
Overview of relevant workplace and road safety responsibilities, including the need for safe systems of work, competent drivers, roadworthy vehicles, journey planning, and compliance with road traffic requirements.
Employer and Employee Duties
Understanding the responsibilities of employers, managers, supervisors, and employees in managing driving for work risks, including cooperation, reporting concerns, and following company policies.
Driver Fitness and Behaviour
Awareness of the importance of driver fitness, fatigue management, medical fitness, eyesight, alcohol and drugs, mobile phone use, distraction, speed, seatbelts, and defensive driving behaviours.
Vehicle Safety and Checks
Understanding the importance of pre-use vehicle checks, maintenance, servicing, defect reporting, tyres, lights, mirrors, brakes, load security, and keeping vehicles in a safe and roadworthy condition.
Journey Planning and Risk Management
Awareness of safe journey planning, route selection, weather conditions, time pressure, rest breaks, parking, reversing, lone working, emergency arrangements, and avoiding unnecessary journeys where possible.
Hazard Awareness on the Road
Recognising common road hazards, including other road users, pedestrians, cyclists, adverse weather, poor visibility, road conditions, congestion, vehicle blind spots, and changing driving environments.
Incident and Emergency Awareness
Understanding the importance of reporting collisions, near misses, vehicle defects, unsafe driving conditions, and following company procedures after a road traffic incident or breakdown.
Communication and Reporting
Promoting effective communication between drivers, supervisors, managers, fleet personnel, and safety representatives to ensure driving risks are identified, reported, reviewed, and controlled.
Who Should Attend?
Employees who drive as part of their work duties, including those using company vehicles, vans, fleet vehicles, or private vehicles for work-related journeys.
Managers, supervisors, and team leaders responsible for staff who drive for work.
Fleet personnel, safety officers, facilities teams, maintenance staff, and others involved in managing work-related driving activities.
Anyone working in an environment where driving for work, vehicle use, journey planning, or road safety responsibilities need to be effectively managed.
Course Benefits
Compliance:
Supports awareness of workplace health and safety duties, road traffic responsibilities, safe systems of work, vehicle safety requirements, and company driving procedures.
Safety and Risk Reduction:
Improves understanding of how safe driving practices, journey planning, driver fitness, and vehicle checks can help reduce work-related road risk.
Practical Awareness:
Provides participants with practical knowledge of driving for work hazards, driver responsibilities, vehicle inspections, journey planning, incident reporting, and escalation of safety concerns.
Certification
Participants receive a Certificate of Training upon successful completion of the Driving for Work Training course.
