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Driving: Defensive Driving: Why Do We Drive the Way We Do?
- Course Format
Partner™- Continuing Education Units (CEUs)
- 0.0
- Training Time ?
- 40 to 80 minutes
- Language(s)
- English
- Browsers Supported
- Required Plugins
- None
- Closed Captioning
- No
- Lesson Interactions
- 14
- Quiz Questions
- 12
- Product ID
- clmiddwd_htm
- Interactive Producer
- Mastery Technologies, Inc.
- Original Content Producer
- Comprehensive Loss Management, Inc. (CLMI)
Overview
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This training helps learners recognize that they are professional drivers and need to operate vehicles with professional attitudes and professional defensive-driving skills.
- Rich multimedia presentation with interactions and quiz
- Print certificate and wallet card
- You have 60 days to complete the course
Audience
Training for anyone who drives a company or personal vehicle for work-related activities.
Topics
The course presents the following topical areas:
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The Professional Driver
- Pay attention
- The routes taken
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Taking Risks
- Other considerations
- The rewards for the risks
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Anticipating Problems
- Recognizing risks
- Identifying problems
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Losing Focus
- Complacency
- Distractions
- Multi-tasking
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Changing Behavior
- Wanting the change
- Changing your behaviors
Intended Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course you will be better prepared to:
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Understand the meaning of a professional driver.
- Acknowledge that anyone whose job includes driving is a professional driver.
- List the responsibilities of a professional driver.
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Understand why people take risks while driving.
- Agree that taking risks is never considered acceptable.
- List incentives that motivate risk taking.
- Select safe driving techniques.
- Identify driving risks.
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Take preventive steps to avoid driving problems.
- Recognize how unsafe driving can occur.
- List ways to anticipate and avoid driving problems.
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Avoid distractions when you drive.
- Agree that it is an individual choice to avoid distractions.
- Define boredom as a distraction.
- Identify driving distractions.
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Avoid situations that result in inattentive behavior.
- List things that cause inattentive driving behavior.
- Explain how the time of day can affect your driving.
