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Life-Saving Defensive Driving For New, Young & Other Drivers

Name: Life-Saving Defensive Driving For New, Young & Other Drivers
Rating: 4.6 (17 reviews)

The key to a safe, calm, confident, and stress-free driving experience

Created byAbraham Aikoroje, MBA, CRSP, MCIPS

Last updated 12/2024

English

English [Auto],

What you'll learn

Understand the meaning of road safety hazards
Know how to identify and become aware of these hazards
Know what the road safety hazard control measures are
Master how to appropriately respond to road safety hazards to ensure your safety on the road and resources to help you achieve a lasting road safety performance

Course content

6 sections • 35 lectures • 1h 9m total length

Welcome Message1:08
Learn to protect lives and property by safe driving that avoids road traffic accidents. Explore the instructor, learning objectives, who the course is for, benefits, and a brief course overview.
Section 1 - Lesson 1 - About the Course Instructor1:11
Section 1 - Lesson 2 - Learning Objectives1:05
Section 1 - Lesson 3 - Who the Course is For1:01
Section 1 - Lesson 4 - Course Benefits1:45
Acquire immediate benefits like better visibility, space, and calm driving, while long-term gains include zero legal costs and minimized insurance, fuel, and maintenance costs.
Section 1 - Lesson 5 - Course Content1:36
Section 1 - Quiz

Section 3 - Introduction0:30
Explore four lessons on road safety hazard management using the hazard identification, risk assessment and control process, and learn how to deploy this tool for effective hazard control.
Section 3 - Lesson 1 - Hazard Identification Risk Assessment & Control (HIRAC)4:51
Section 3 - Lesson 2 - Road Safety Hazard Identification5:15
Identify road safety hazards in three categories—driver, vehicle, and road—and learn how driver errors like speeding, fatigue, and distractions, along with vehicle defects and poor road conditions, cause accidents.
Section 3 - Lesson 3 - Road Safety Hazard Assessment1:15
Assess road safety hazards to understand risk and the likelihood of accidents, and learn ways to reduce consequences for young and new drivers.
Section 3 - Lesson 4 - Road Safety Hazard Control1:10
Section 3 - Quiz

Section 4 - Introduction1:19
Section 4 - Lesson 1 - Becoming a Safe Driver2:47
Becoming a safe driver starts with assessing your physical and mental fitness before driving and recognizing hazards like poor eyesight, fatigue, impairment, or anger and anxiety.
Section 4 - Lesson 2 - Driving a Safe Vehicle3:18
Inspect your vehicle before driving to prevent hazards, checking tires, lights, mirrors, brakes, windshields, and fluids, and use the Driver Vehicle Inspection Checklist to ensure safe operation.
Section 4 - Lesson 3a - Driving a Vehicle Safely9:29
Section 4 - Lesson 3b - Driving a Vehicle Safely8:00
Section 4 - Quiz

Section 5 - Introduction1:47
Explore section five defensive driving resources, featuring 13 lessons on physical and mental safe driving practices. Build skills in space management, visibility, and safety procedures for teen and guardian drivers.
Lesson 1 -How to maintain a safe driving space in front while in motion1:10
Lesson 2- How to maintain a safe driving space at intersections0:41
Lesson 3- How to create a space around your vehicle in the traffic1:30
Maintain a three seconds plus following distance and create space on the left, right, and front to navigate traffic safely and avoid tailgaters.
Lesson 4- How to maintain a proper visibility of traffic situations ahead0:56
Lesson 5- How to maintain a proper visibility of traffic situations side/back0:29
Lesson 6- How to avoid the hazard of fixed stare vision0:54
Lesson 7- Driver Vehicle Safety Inspection Checklist0:40
Lesson 8 - Vehicle Emergency Kit Items List0:28
Lesson 9 - Vehicle Collision Checklist0:52
Lesson 10 - Ten Mindsets of a Life Saving Defensive Driver1:09
Lesson 11- Seven On-the-road Lifesaving Values & Attitudes of a Defensive Driver2:10
Embrace seven on-the-road life saving values—patience, courtesy, forgiveness, knowledge, yielding, focused driving, and doing the right thing—to become a safer defensive driver.
Lesson 12 - Twelve Affirmations to Reinforce the Safe Driver Attitude0:43
Lesson 13 - Teen Driver - Parent/Guardian Driving Agreement0:49
Section 5 - Quiz

Requirements

You will need a driver's license to take this course

Description

A road traffic accident is a show stopper!!!

The consequences including death, injuries, disabilities, and damage to vehicles and other properties are quite devastating to the victims, family members, friends, and colleagues.

If you or someone you know has been involved in a road accident, you will understand its effects.

Lifesaving Defensive Driving For New and Young Drivers online course is designed to save the life of the driver and other road users and their vehicles, by transforming the individual into a safe driver for life, physically and mentally.

The course uses time-tested and proven safety management tools deployed by successful global organisations to achieve breakthrough safety records. The content is simple, yet practical such that the learner can easily grasp the reason behind the prescribed road hazard avoidance measures and techniques and immediately start applying them to improve their driving style.

Using the formal hazard assessment safety tool, the course details the common road safety hazards that cause accidents, collisions, and crashes and provides safe driving measures to control these hazards.

To aid the implementation of the safe driving measures, the course features two sets of downloadable resources - physical safe driving practice resources and mental safe driving practice resources.

The physical safe driving practice resources include:

· 6 step-by-step defensive driving practice charts.

· Driver vehicle inspection checklist for daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly inspections.

· Vehicle emergency kit items sheet.

· Vehicle collision scene checklist.

The mental safe driving practice resources include:

· 12 Affirmations to reinforce the safe driver attitude sheet.

· 10 Mindsets of a defensive driver sheet to reflect on.

· 7 On-the-road life-saving values of a defensive driver sheet.

· Teen driver parent/guardian driver agreement template.

Anyone, regardless of their driving category—young, new, old, or experienced—will find the knowledge in this course useful.

Who this course is for:

This course is for young drivers, new drivers and anyone who wants to know how to drive safely.

Life-Saving Defensive Driving For New, Young & Other Drivers

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Course content

Introduction & Course Overview6 lectures • 8min

An Overview of Key Terms4 lectures • 7min

Road Safety Hazard Management5 lectures • 13min

Road Safety Formal Hazard Assessment5 lectures • 25min

Defensive Driving Implementation Resources14 lectures • 14min

Summary & Wrap-up and Downloadable Resources1 lecture • 2min

Requirements

Description

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