Description
· Recognise all types of smart motorway and their safety features
· Follow the signs and signals
· Understand how technology helps keep drivers moving safely
· Demonstrate positive driving behaviour to enhance road safety
· Evaluate the hazards involved in motorway driving
· Stay safe and keep traffic moving!
· Extend knowledge of legislation that exists, to provide safety controls on our busy roads
· Reflect on our behaviours and that of others, that compromise the safety of road users
· Justify need to plan and operate on clearly defined and understood routes, and what to do if a detour is unavoidable
· To understand the costs (financial and non financial) and consequences of a collision with a bridge
· Understand how rest and nutrition can affect a professional driver
· Know how to prepare for a better sleep
· Understand how driver shift patterns can affect your health and wellbeing
· Give an overview of how driver distraction and impairment affects risk
· Highlight responsibilities of professional drivers on the motorway network
· Deliver Highways England best practice guidance
· Improve awareness of driver risks on Smart motorways
· Demonstrate the benefits of staying compliant to protect both driver and other road users
· Appreciate the importance of robust tyre checks on vehicles
· Be able to identify what is a secure load on your vehicle
· Understand the importance of load distribution and weight thresholds
· Appreciate the consequences of poor visibility in the cab and how they can be mitigated on high speed roads
Subject Areas
- First Aid
- Health, Safety & Emergencies
- Industry Enviro. Carriage of Dangerous Goo
- Legislation (Hours/WTD/Regs)
- Legislation for Carriage of Goods
- Loading/Unloading
- Physical/Mental Health & Wellbeing
- Professional Driver & Company Issues
- Vehicle Systems (Safety)
- Vulnerable Road Users