Safe Urban Driving Inclement Weather Session Safe Urban
Safe Urban Driving Inclement Weather Session
Safe Urban Driving Context
Objectives and Introduction Course objective - the instruction of vocational drivers to improve their road safety behaviour regarding vulnerable road users Contributes to an understanding of the following objectives 2. 1 Objective: to know the social environment of road transport and the rules governing it 3. 0 Health, road and environmental safety, service, logistics 3. 3 Objective: ability to prevent physical risks: – ergonomic principles; movements and postures which pose a risk, physical fitness, handling exercises, personal protection. 3. 4 Objective: awareness of the importance of physical and mental ability: – principles of healthy, balanced eating, effects of alcohol, drugs or any other substance likely to affect behaviour, symptoms, causes, effects of fatigue and stress, fundamental role of the basic work/rest cycle. 3. 6 Objective: ability to adopt behaviour to help enhance the image of the company: – behaviour of the driver and company image: importance for the company of the standard of service provided by the driver, the roles of the driver, people with whom the driver will be dealing, vehicle maintenance, work organisation, commercial and financial effects of a dispute.
Ride. Wise Introduction and Background • Local charity, long history, wide range of programmes • Ride. Wise • • More local people cycling more often Funders Market, manage and deliver cycling instruction Programme and schedule cycling activities and train in groups or individually Instructors – nationally qualified, road and MTB coaches Safe Urban Driving Independent Training Organisation
Instruction • Bike. Ability – levels 1, 2, 3 • Instructors – professional development • Main routes for clients • • • Beginners or returners to cycling – socially, commuting Health risk (CVD, Obesity, Elderly loneliness. . ) Health Recuperation (skeletal injury, heart conditions) Schools and community groups Those wishing to develop their cycling skills for sports activities e. g. MTB, road cycling
SUD Course Outcomes • Aware and understanding of the principles of safe cycling • Understand the rationale behind the principles • List the typical maneuvers cyclists might encounter e. g. primary and secondary, roundabouts, junctions, cross roads, lane changes • Explain the lines to take on all typical maneuvers they might encounter • Explain the significance of the ‘blind spot’ and usage of car wing mirrors • Explain why cyclists don’t always understand, or know how to react to, road positioning of HGVs when turning • Observation where the participants can assess the cycling skills of other road cyclists.
Cyclists as road users group discussion drivers perceptions of cyclists and their experince of sharing the road with them
Why HGV Drivers and Cyclists are an issue
Cycling Principles • Highway Code • Cyclists and motorists observe the rules of the road • Position as a car would • claim the lane through road narrows, junctions, roundabouts and road lanes • Two abreast • Right of way • National and local guidelines • Ride assertively – positioning is crucial • See and be seen…and heard; • look behind you, make eye contact • Signaling? • Wear a helmet/hi viz • Keep away from the gutter and kerb; Bumps, cracks and potholes; Tram tracks • Be prepared, concentrate and be cautious • Undertaking - Mind that lorry and opening car doors
how people control a bike • Indentify the different types of riders • Identify different styles of riding • Identify different types of road surface • Understand different levels of conspicuousness
Basic road use by cyclists • Starting and finishing a journey • Passing side roads • Turning right from minor to major orad • Turning left from major road to minor • Passing stationary vehicles • Positioning for narrow roads
Cycling Road Positions • Primary and secondary • Why • Junctions • Road Narrows • Roundabouts
Junctions
Road Narrows
Advanced road use by cyclists • • Traffic lights Multi lane junctions Muilti lane juctions turning left and right Box junctions Filtering at junctions Lorries Long and high sided vehicles Roundabouts • Turning left • Straight ahead • Truning right
Roundabouts
Right or Wrong?
Right or Wrong?
Right or Wrong?
Right or Wrong?
Review Lessons Learnt
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