Saving Lives, Saving Money

What makes us different?

Behavioural Change Techniques

We have developed our theoretical training programme by using Behavioural Change Techniques (BCT) to the point where on-road training is not a necessity, saving you time and money.

Making the candidate aware of their attitude to advice

We highlight, through a practical exercise, that most people do not take advice and implement it. Once this has been highlighted, the attendees are more likely to take on the advice given in the training.

Challenging the candidates re their perceived skills levels

The goal of this section is to encourage the candidates to have a more realistic view of their actual skills level. This is important as those who think that they have nothing to learn, are disinclined to learn.

Commitment to the programme/staff motivation

The goal of this section is to have the candidates understand the reasons behind the training. We cover

- Costs of running a fleet.
- Reason for employment (where relevant).
- Responsibility to family – personal reasons.

We end this session by obtaining their written commitment to the training, addressed to their families.

Concepts first, rules second

IDS has created a unique defensive driving guide, which is easy to understand and remember, doing away with the need for long winded and outdated acronyms such as SIPDE, etc.

Recent Successes

Our biggest client, with 800 vehicles, had a claims ratio of 204% at the beginning of 2023, when they asked us to start training their drivers. 14 months later that claims ratio dropped to 68.7% and we, IDS, played a significant role in that success.

I recently had my worst training day ever, for several reasons, and I left the training wondering if I had made any impact on the attendees. A month after the training we compared these 9 drivers event history (harsh braking, harsh acceleration, harsh cornering) in the 3 months leading up to the training and the month after the training. One driver deteriorated, 5 improved to the point that there was an acceptable return on investment, and 3 improved dramatically with the best seeing an improvement from 1 event every 78.5kms to 1 event every 504 kms.

A client was trialing a camera system. After about 4 weeks half of the trial participants had a dramatic reduction in events/triggers. The camera company wanted to take credit for the improvement until it was pointed out that those drivers had recently done a defensive driver training programme with us. We support the use of camera systems, and our training complements the camera systems, and those clips can be used in conjunction with our workbook to coach the drivers.

PROGRAMMES

The Institute for Driver Safety has developed innovative and effective driver training programmes in order to change driver behaviour to save lives and money. These courses are innovative, effective, and entertaining and are suitable for staff, family or clients.

DEFENSIVE

We offer innovative, entertaining, interactive, and unique defensive driver training programmes. Using Behavioural Change Techniques, we help reduce the costs of running your fleet, the chances of your staff being hi-jacked, and the possibilities of crashes. These changes in behaviour protect your staff, cargo, and reputation and can lead to reduced fleet running costs of between 5% and 15%, with a substantial return on investment, whilst ticking off another OHS box.

advanced

This programme focuses on what to do when you are already in trouble and covers the following. • Presentation on the theory of vehicle dynamics – 60 minutes. • Various practical exercises varying from stopping distance recognition, emergency stops, aquaplaning, ABS, reaction time, driving at night, following distance, oversteer and understeer, to ESC.

High Performance

This programme is conducted on a race circuit. During this course clients can discover their own limit of vehicle control and hone their skills under full-time expert instruction. The day consists • Theory of vehicle dynamics and lines (90 Minutes) • Practical – the rest of the day is spent practicing high performance driving techniques, emergency situation simulations and demonstrations on the latest vehicle technologies. • A light lunch and refreshments are included.

Hijack and Kidnapping Avoidance

Over 23 000 vehicles were hijacked in 2022 and over 16 000 kidnappings took place in 2023! We advise you as to which avoidance measures you should take to reduce the chances of being hijacked or kidnapped. We also advise you on how to react if hijacked or kidnapped. Training time is approximately 2 hours.

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