Two Day Defensive Driving Programme for Corporate Drivers
Toptech strongly recommends that management of corporate institutions must endorse a compulsory yearly refresher driver training programme for all staff, to improve the driving standards within the company. This will go a long way to save the company’s investments, and in addition, reduce road traffic accidents, many of which are avoidable.
Toptech Ghana, an ISO certified road safety, transport, and logistics management consulting firm, is offering a 2-day training in defensive driving for corporate drivers. Dubbed the “Defensive Driving Programme for Corporate VIP Drivers”, the training will equip drivers in protocol and defensive driving and trip planning.
Toptech Ghana has over 27 years of experience in providing quality training in Driver Training, Security, Health and Safety Training in the sub-region of Africa. We are also trainers of the World Bank, Africa Region from the year 2011.
ISO certificates are presented to all participants after our training sessions. Executive Director, Cecil Ebow Garbrah, tells TV3 that the course is designed to meet the demands of corporate entities who demand par excellence driver-behaviour. Toptech has trained over 100 companies in defensive driving and off road driving programmes. Training has yielded positive results to all the companies.
Drivers who fail to plan their trips, have in the past years have had worse health conditions. This Mr. Garbrah said, has brought about the increase of stress levels due to fatigue management. Although the LI 2180 states that drivers must take a rest after every 4 hours, I advice that drivers must plan to a rest of five minutes after every two hours.
“For instance if you are travelling with your boss to Kumasi, your boss must know that compulsorily, you have to stop at a place like Linda Dor for a period of 5-minutes, 10-minutes and that is a compulsory stop where you need to stop, you need to refresh yourself, take in a little bit of exercise and then get into your vehicle. This is all about Protocol Driving,” Mr. Garbrah added.
Participants, as part of the protocol driving, would be taken through handling of official documents such as those from the banks, dressing and personal hygiene.
“The driver must keep himself clean. For instance, you don’t wear a brown shoe and wear a black belt. We are going to do all that training. The pair of trousers that you wear; the sort of shirts that we are looking at and even the singlet so we are going to do much more about personal hygiene,” said Mr. Garbrah.
The cost of the two day programme per participant which includes an ISO Certificate, Breakfast and Lunch, Pen drive of photos, videos, and programme materials is 2,250 cedis.
Spending an amount of about two thousand cedis to train your staff to handle a 2-million-cedi vehicle is the best decision for your company to protect lives as well as to save money.
The programme, which is tailor-made to fit into operations of all companies, will provide a very interactive forum for participants to share their experiences as they learn from top notch resource professionals.
