Course Aims and Objectives
This course focuses on the practical aspects of driver assessment and corrective training and
can prove an extremely cost-effective way of providing training throughout a company.
Often the first step in a potential trainer’s journey is to become a Driver Assessor. A Driver Assessor’s
role is to assess drivers against a national standard creating a risk grading that providing the business
with an understanding of the level of risk each driver poses. A key benefit to this structured assessment
is ensuring that all drivers are graded in the same way to a recognised and robust national standard.
Driver Assessors are taught how to risk grade in 5 bands from low risk to high risk, enabling training and
interventions to be targeted at the higher risk drivers. Driver Assessors benefit businesses by identifying
risk and helping to reduce driver accident severity and frequency.
Many businesses have Driver Assessors who are overseen by Driver Trainer / Assessors (DTA), whose
role is to train drivers to improve their skills and reduce their risk grading. Although candidates can go
straight to a DTA course, it is often the next step in a trainer’s journey.
Course Content
- Licence, eyesight and vehicle checks
- Assessment routes
- Low Carbon Driving skills
- An awareness of driving assessment reports
- How to mark assessments
- Practical driving techniques
- Empathy and constructive feedback
Benefits of the Course
- Demonstrable safety and environmental benefits
- Identification of unsafe and inefficient driving practices in order to develop driver-centred remedial
- actions
- An increased understanding of the technical and psychological aspects of driver assessment
- Assessors will be better equipped to provide positive/ constructive feedback to drivers
- Achieving this qualification provides entry to the VTCT Skills for Logistics – Register of Logistics Instructors
