Preventative drink and drug driving for all people who drink alcohol (at any time) and who drive a car
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Who is this Course for?
Our doctoral research has identified that anyone who drinks alcohol and who drives car (for whatever reason) could be at risk of a drink drive conviction. Therefore it may be beneficial for all drivers.
It is accredited by the Driving Standards Agency and could also for part of professional competence training
Course Topics and Objectives
- To understand the rationale for providing a preventative drink or drug driving course.
- To understand the underpinning theory of the course.
- To understand the statistics of people convicted of drink and drug driving in the UK.
- To understand anecdotal evidence of why people drink drive.
- To understand empirical evidence of who drink drives.
- To understand the effects of alcohol and substances on the human body.
- To understand the legislation for drink and drug driving in the UK.
- To understand the drinking driving limit in Scotland
- To understand the drink driving limit in England & Wales
- To understand the drug driving laws across the UK
- An introduction to units of alcohol
- An introduction to guidelines for safe, hazardous or harmful drinking and alcohol dependency
- To assess your alcohol consumption
- To understand how we process alcohol from a drinker’s explanation and from medical evidence.
- Exercise on your alcohol use and when you would be legal and safe to drive.
- To understand the elimination process for controlled substances
- To understand the consequences of being convicted of a drink or drug driving offence.
- To understand the lived experience of being convicted of a drink driving offence
Training
There are three options for training:
- This is a license agreement for one year. We train your training staff to deliver the course to a wider workforce. This requires a needs analysis and us to develop a bespoke package whereby we help to fill gaps in knowledge with an evaluation pre and post course. We will train your staff face to face before the license agreement.
- We could facilitate the training with your staff team
- Individually you could take the course on line - COMING SOON