The National Safety Council’s (NSC) Defensive Driving Course is recognized for its leading-edge curriculum, defensive driving strategies, hazard recognition exercises and learner retention strategies. The course uses videos and the most relevant content to address today’s driving challenges, behaviors, incident rates, road conditions, traffic laws and more. A certificate is issued to attendees at the end of class.
What participants will learn:
Whether you are looking to improve your own awareness skills or keep your employees safe on the road, this course will provide safe driving knowledge and collision prevention strategies that focus on behavior, judgment, decision making and consequences.
Offering fact-based data, this course will help influence learners to make positive choices to improve driving behaviors and attitudes and encourage lawful decisions to avoid collisions and decrease traffic violations.
This course emphasizes:
- Distracted, fatigued and impaired driving
- Substance impairment
- Sharing the road
- Habits of defensive driving
- Vehicle technology and safety features
- Personal driving behaviors and risk-taking tendencies
- Hazard identification and risk assessment challenges
- Scenario-based training
- Application of knowledge and skills testing
- Personal plan for making effective driving choices
Prerequisites: None
Course Includes: Student Workbook
This course is also available as a private course for individual employers and organizations at your location upon request.
