UK Training for driving overseas
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I've had a search around the forum, and can find no help with this question - perhaps someone has an answer.
I'm the safety adviser to my company. The most dangerous thing we do is driving, and nearly all of that is in hired cars in the USA or Europe. Many of our employees are quite young, and many do not own cars. We do, of course, have a duty to ensure the safety of our employees in the course of their work, so we've involved RoSPA to do some assessment and training here in the UK. We have a few advanced drivers (of which I'm proud to be one!), but they are not the norm.
However, here's the hard bit - I'd really like to have access to a course to train people in driving skills useful abroad. This is an aspect of training which is really important to managing risks, but is sadly lacking in the market place. We can read books and leaflets, but is there anyone out there who can offer useful training? Even the advanced drivers can't help here, since delivering training requires the kind of understanding of a foreign highway code that we have of our own, but these typically don't exist, or are inscrutable or in a foreign language. Even the American four-way stop is more complicated than it at first appears, since, if my memory serves me correctly, the widely accepted practice differs from the law slightly.
I should add that neither Rospa nor IAM have been able to help me here - I've tried them both.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Yours in hope rather than expectation...
Tim
I'm the safety adviser to my company. The most dangerous thing we do is driving, and nearly all of that is in hired cars in the USA or Europe. Many of our employees are quite young, and many do not own cars. We do, of course, have a duty to ensure the safety of our employees in the course of their work, so we've involved RoSPA to do some assessment and training here in the UK. We have a few advanced drivers (of which I'm proud to be one!), but they are not the norm.
However, here's the hard bit - I'd really like to have access to a course to train people in driving skills useful abroad. This is an aspect of training which is really important to managing risks, but is sadly lacking in the market place. We can read books and leaflets, but is there anyone out there who can offer useful training? Even the advanced drivers can't help here, since delivering training requires the kind of understanding of a foreign highway code that we have of our own, but these typically don't exist, or are inscrutable or in a foreign language. Even the American four-way stop is more complicated than it at first appears, since, if my memory serves me correctly, the widely accepted practice differs from the law slightly.
I should add that neither Rospa nor IAM have been able to help me here - I've tried them both.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Yours in hope rather than expectation...
Tim