DriveTech DIS operates two training programmes:

National Driver Improvement Scheme Course

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Aims: The Courses are designed to:

• Reduce the incidence of re-offending amongst a client group of ‘Due Care and Attention’ offenders.
• Improve attitudes and driving behaviour.
• Reduce the occurrence of crashes and injury to drivers who have been identified as being at risk.

Objectives: At the end of the course clients should:

• Understand the major causes of road crashes.
• Where possible have an appreciation of the causes of their crash or incident.
• Restore any lost confidence following a crash.
• Understand how a driver’s attitude influences safe or unsafe driving performance.
• Recognise and implement a positive attitude to driving.
• Understand how life pressures, stress and fatigue affects driver performance.
• Show an improvement in hazard perception.
• Show an understanding of a ‘planned and systematic approach’ to hazards.
• Understand the concept of ‘responsibility and avoidability’ in road crashes or incidents.
• Demonstrate an awareness that they can control and reduce their level of risk taking.
• Understand how their future driving performance is within their control.
• Show an improvement in their driving behaviour.
• Refresh knowledge of the Highway Code.

The drivers/riders that attend a Driver or Rider Improvement Course have generally been involved in a crash for one of these reasons:

• They have made an driving error
• They had a lapse in concentration
• They were committing a violation at the time

THERE IS NO PASS OR FAIL TEST. TO COMPLETE THE COURSE DELEGATES MUST PARTICIPATE FULLY AND SHOW AN IMPROVEMENT IN ABILITY AND ATTITUDE WHERE NECESSARY.