Defensive Driving
National Safety Council
Accident prevention and safe driving techniques.
Duration
The 4-hour and 2-hour courses features adaptive curriculum tailored to the participant’s profile, including age, gender, driving behaviors and attitudes, vehicle and geographic location based on a series of responses to questions asked throughout the course.
Credits
Not specified
Cost
Not specified
Format
Hybrid
What You'll Learn
AI-generatedKey competencies developed through this program
- KnowledgeApply defensive driving techniques to prevent accidents in common traffic situations including intersections, lane changes, and merging.Developing
Skills developed through this program
- Define defensive driving principles and apply the DDC Collision Prevention Formula to prevent collisions
- Recognize how physical, emotional, and mental conditions affect driving performance and apply compensating techniques
- Inspect vehicle equipment and occupant protection systems prior to driving to ensure safe operation
- Apply defensive driving techniques in adverse light, weather, road, and traffic conditions
- Identify and manage impaired, distracted, fatigued, and aggressive driving behaviors in yourself and others
- Recognize unsafe driving behaviors and apply safe alternatives for speeding, intersections, turns, passing, and following distance
Occupations this program prepares you for
Detailed information about this program
Deliver the most relevant, leading-edge content to motivate and educate employees to be safe, responsible drivers.
What you need to earn this credential
No requirements listed.
Eligible funding programs
No funding information available.
Scholarships
No scholarships listed.