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Defensive Driving
The Defensive Driving course teaches safe driving strategies, hazard awareness, and accident prevention techniques. It equips drivers with the skills to anticipate risks, react appropriately in hazardous situations, and reduce the likelihood of accidents, promoting safer driving practices in various driving conditions.
What is the Defensive Driving?
The Defensive Driving course from the American Institute of Safety Professionals provides comprehensive training on the driving techniques, hazard anticipation skills, and behavioural disciplines that prevent motor vehicle collisions. Motor vehicle incidents are the #1 cause of workplace fatalities in the United States, killing more workers than falls, electrocution, struck-by, and caught-in combined. Every employee who drives as part of their job whether in a company vehicle, personal vehicle on company business, or commercial motor vehicle faces this risk. Defensive driving is the competency that reduces it.
The curriculum covers defensive driving principles (anticipation, space management, visibility), the Smith System or similar systematic driving methodology, hazard anticipation and recognition (scanning, identifying potential conflicts before they develop), following distance (3–4 second rule, increased distance for adverse conditions, heavy vehicles), intersection safety (the most common collision location), lane change and merge safety, speed management, distracted driving elimination (phone, navigation, eating, passengers, cognitive distraction), fatigue management (recognition, prevention, countermeasures), impaired driving prohibition, adverse weather driving (rain, fog, ice, snow, wind), night driving, backing safety, and the post-incident procedures. All training is delivered 100 percent online through Microsoft Teams and the American Institute of Safety Professionals LMS.
Upon completion, graduates receive a certificate, wallet card, and transcript, employer-verifiable at amiosp.com/student-verifications.
Who should take this course?
- All employees who drive as part of their work duties
- Fleet drivers and commercial vehicle operators
- Sales representatives and field service personnel who drive extensively
- Supervisors responsible for driver safety compliance
- Safety managers managing fleet safety programmes
- New drivers receiving company vehicle authorisation
What will you study?
Core Modules
- 01Principles of Defensive Driving and Driver Responsibility
- 02Hazard Recognition, Risk Perception, and Accident Prevention
- 03Safe Speed Management and Maintaining Safe Following Distance
- 04Managing Intersections, Overtaking, and Lane Discipline
- 05Adverse Weather Driving and Night Driving Safety
- 06Driver Fatigue, Distraction, and Stress Management
- 07Vehicle Safety Checks and Basic Preventive Maintenance
- 08Road Traffic Laws, Company Driving Policies, and Penalties
Optional / Site-Specific Modules
- 01Defensive Driving for Commercial and Heavy Vehicles
- 02Journey Management and Route Risk Assessment
- 03Incident Reporting, Accident Investigation, and Root Cause Analysis
- 04Eco-Driving Techniques and Fuel Efficiency Awareness
How will you be assessed?
Candidates can take this exam through an assigned portal from the American Institute of Safety Professionals. A passing score is 70% or higher, and exam results are provided right after by email to the address provided. The exam is open-book, allowing candidates to validate their answers. Any candidates who do not pass have 1 month after their exam to go through the training materials and can take the exam 3 additional times.
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