Safe Driving

As stipulated in the University Transport Policy, all University drivers are required to complete the online Safe Driving course. 

Safe driving courses acknowledge that although many accidents that occur whilst employees are driving on company business are not caused by those employees, something can still be done to reduce the risk by making people more aware and thus enabling drivers to be more proactive on the roads.

Even when accidents are not caused by an organisations own drivers, there is still a cost implication, this may be in terms of physical injury or mental trauma to the employee, damage to a vehicle with insurance implications, or lost days at work.

Course outline

The first part of this module is the Risk Assessment. You are required to completed the Risk Assessment before moving on to the training component. The training consists of 9 modules plus a test. The training will take approximately 30 - 40 minutes to complete.

The areas of training consist of;

• Setting the scene
• Is your vehicle safe and legal?
• Is low speed low risk?
• Increased speed, increased risk
• Avoiding common collisions
• Understanding what you see
• Comfort
• Lone working
• Night time

You must complete all the training sections and pass the test for People and Money to register the completion of the course.

Accessing the course

The course is available for staff to enrol on People and Money.  

Users should not login to Cardinus directly, using previous links, as their training will not be recorded in P&M.

Safe driving: self-enrol on People and Money