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Driver Safety eLearning
Online driver safety training for people who drive for work, because driving is the most dangerous thing most employees do, and health and safety law does not stop at the office door.
Who it is for
Who this driver safety course is for
Anyone who drives on business is at work while they do it. That includes company car drivers, van drivers, and staff using their own car for work journeys: the grey fleet most employers forget about entirely.
- Company car and van drivers
- Sales and service staff who drive between sites
- Employees using their own vehicles for work journeys
- Fleet managers and transport supervisors
- Delivery and courier drivers
- Anyone responsible for a driving-at-work policy
Course content
What the driver safety course covers
Five short lessons covering driving as work, licence, vehicle and checks, fatigue and journey planning, distraction and impairment, and incidents and reporting, then a 12-question assessment.
Driving as work
Why work driving is covered by health and safety law, and the grey fleet.
Licence, vehicle, insurance and checks
Licence and insurance, walkaround checks and defects.
Fatigue and journey planning
Breaks every two hours, sleep, and risky times of day.
Distraction and impairment
Phones, other distractions, alcohol, drugs and medicines.
Incidents and reporting
What to do at the scene, reporting to the employer, and the employer's position after serious incidents.
Outcomes
What you will be able to do afterwards
- Explain why driving for work is covered by health and safety law
- Check licence, insurance and vehicle before driving
- Plan journeys to manage fatigue
- Avoid distraction and impairment
- Respond to an incident and report it
Your legal duty
The law behind driver safety training
Driving for work sits inside health and safety law. The Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 requires employers to ensure the health and safety of employees at work so far as is reasonably practicable, and the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 require the risks to be assessed, including the risks of work-related road journeys.
Road traffic law applies alongside it rather than instead of it. The Road Traffic Act 1988 governs the driving itself; the health and safety duties govern how the employer plans, schedules and equips the work that produces the journey.
- Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 - sections 2 and 3
- Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 - risk assessment
- Road Traffic Act 1988 - the driving itself
- Grey fleet journeys in an employee's own car are still work journeys
Practicalities
How the course works
Would you rather have a tutor?
Where your own procedures, equipment and reporting lines need to be in the training, we can build that version for you.
For employers
Driver Safety training for a team
Grey fleet is where most employers are exposed, because those drivers are rarely inducted at all. An account lets you cover everyone who drives on business.
- One invoice instead of a card payment per person
- Licences allocated as people join, so induction is covered
- Completion and expiry reporting for your records
- Renewal reminders before certificates lapse
- Bespoke versions built around your own procedures
Driver Safety eLearning: common questions
Yes. Employees driving on business are at work, so the general duties and the requirement to assess risk apply. Road traffic law applies alongside it.
Employees using their own vehicles for work journeys. Those journeys are still work, and the employer still has duties: checking licence, insurance and roadworthiness.
No. This is general driver safety awareness. Drivers of large goods and passenger vehicles have their own regulated training requirements.
A proportionate check is what matters. The course covers what's relevant for the vehicle type, and why defect reporting is the part that gets skipped.
About 30 to 45 minutes, with no time limit. Start it, pause it, and come back whenever suits. The certificate is issued as soon as you pass the end assessment.
Yes. It runs in a browser on any modern phone, tablet or computer, with nothing to install.
Yes. Open a business account and we invoice you for the licences, which you allocate as people need them, with completion reporting included.
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