Post Collision Driver Coaching and Workshop
Workshop Overview
Experiencing a collision or road incident is a traumatic experience for any driver and can have a detrimental effect on their confidence, well-being and future safety while driving.
This course restores driver confidence and increases driver safety by reducing the risk of any further replication of the incident.
Course involves a 2-to-3-hour discussion reviewing the incident and theory session followed by practical on-road training tailored to the driver’s personal Delivery Formats Duration 7. 5 hours Delegates 1 driver requirements.
Delivery Formats
7.5 hours
1 driver
Course Review
Discuss outcomes and reflect on the session.
Revisit ‘what do you want to get out of today’.
Advice for ongoing development/ improvement.
Workshop Outline
Introduction
- Driving licence and eyesight checks.
- Define objectives and identity specific training needs.
- Setting general goals for the session.
Post collision/incident training
- Indepth review of collision or incident report and drivers’ description.
- Nature of the journey, start time that day, what happened the day before.
- What does the driver consider was the primary causation for the collision or incident?
- On reflection could they have done something different.
- Revisit the scene if it is beneficial to the course.
Coaching session inc assessment, and debriefing:
- Build confidence through defensive driving and recognising hazards.
- Promote proactive driving through application of COAST – Concentration, Observation, Anticipation, Space & Time.
- Recognition of hazards and speed limit changes in good time.
- Defining appropriate speed.
- Bite-sized, driver-centred learning.
- Discuss progress.
- Undertake parking and manoeuvring exercises.
- Encourage commentary-style driving to maintain concentration and accelerate anticipation to situations developing ahead.
Logistics
Our delivery is facilitated both in a classroom and in-vehicle.
Facilitaion
In order to facilitate the training:
- A suitable room to comfortably seat all attending.
- Driver to be able to read a number plate from 20 metres in good day light with or without corrective vision.
- Produce their driving licence.
- Vehicle meets all Road Traffic Act requirements.
- Our trainer to be insured to drive the vehicle during any time of the course in the event they have to take over or provide a demonstration drive.
