Road Skills Online

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Road Skills Online delivers high-quality industry-recognised e-learning to your drivers at a time of their choosing. Professional development needn’t be a chore.

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How It Works

Their bespoke e-learning platform and Professional Development Plan have been designed to deliver consistent, relevant and useful reminders to your drivers of the dos and don’ts of the job. Once a month your drivers will receive a 15-20 minute pre-made Toolbox Talk, consisting of an introduction to the subject and three key learning points, followed by a short interactive quiz designed to reinforce the points covered. You can log in at any time and track their progress, seeing things like when your drivers last logged in, which talks they’ve watched and how they’re getting on with their quizzes.

Drivers' Professional Development Plan

The Drivers’ Professional Development Plan (PDP), consisting of monthly CPD accredited Toolbox Talks, has been created by specialists in commercial transport to help drivers think better, drive well, control costs and contribute to public safety. But what is a Road Skills Online Toolbox Talk? Why have they structured the PDP in the way we have? And what topics do they cover in the programme? Here we answer all of those questions and more.

PDP In Detail

Here's what you can expect your drivers to learn about

✅	Mobile Phones	✅	Tackling Emissions	✅	Advanced Driving is about Thinking
✅	Speed Awareness	✅	Daily Walkaround Check	✅	Environmental Driving
✅	No Convoys or Tailgating	✅	Manoeuvering & Reversing on the Road	✅	Bridge Strikes
✅	Driving in Adverse Weather	✅	Use of Vulnerable Road User (VRU) Equipment	✅	Rural Road Driving
✅	Driving On-Premises	✅	In-Vehicle Communication Devices	✅	Sharing the Road
✅	Working Around Vehicles	✅	Driving Techniques	✅	Post Collision Procedures
✅	Driving at Work	✅	Driver's Role And Responsibilities	✅	Lifestyle, Fitness and Health
✅	Vulnerable Road Users	✅	Collision Procedures	✅	Customer Service
✅	Fitness to Drive	✅	Fatigue & Drivers' Hours	✅	Traffic Flow Situations
✅	Security & Counter-Terrorism	✅	Safe Loading	✅	Team Work
✅	Highway Code	✅	Health & Well-Being	✅	How a Fleet Business Works
✅	Annual Review	✅	Annual Review	✅	Annual Review

Company Dashboard

A key reason many firms choose Road Skills Online for their drivers’ professional development is that everything is tracked and accessible from a central Company Dashboard. Log in and instantly see how your drivers are progressing, print reports for inclusion in audits and make changes like adding new drivers to your account.

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Content Customisation

The CPD accredited PDP has been designed to meet the requirements of most businesses, but Road Skills Online understand that some customers may want to adjust the content they deliver. If you’re interested in using a smaller selection of the Toolbox Talks for a specific purpose or would like to explore uploading your own content to their platform, please visit the content customisation page.

Why Invest in Drivers' Professional Development?

Regular professional development has a significant number of benefits for you, your drivers and the public at large. Here we detail the main reasons why companies are joining Road Skills Online to deliver their drivers’ PDP.

COMPLIANCE, RECOGNITION AND ACCREDITATION

Alongside the numerous benefits, a programme of regular professional development brings to your company, the driver and the public, it’ll also be a tick in the box for various industry accreditations, not to mention your O Licence.

Meet Your O Licence Obligations

A crucial part of O Licence compliance is ensuring that the “laws relating to the driving and operation of vehicles used under the licence are observed.” Failure to do so is a criminal offence (GV79 Section 16). Put simply you must ensure that your drivers comply with the various laws and regulations relating to driving and driving at work. But how can you do that when you only see them a couple of times a week? By regular and consistent professional development.

Designed for FORS D4, S5 and G5 Professional Development

The CPD accredited programme of Toolbox Talks has been designed to satisfy the need to have a Professional Development Plan for D4, S5 and G5 of your FORS audit. Each of your drivers will have a comprehensive record of their learning that you can easily demonstrate at audit via your Road Skills Online Company Dashboard. Train your drivers, track their progress, pass your audits.

Continuing Professional Development (CPD)

Continuing Professional Development or CPD for short is a non-industry specific accreditation that recognises ongoing learning and development. Road Skills Online’s PDP has been formally accredited with the CPD Standards Office, counting as 4 hours of professional development for each year completed.

Meet the Requirements for DVSA Earned Recognition

Road Skills Online gives you all the tools you need to satisfy section 7.2 of the DVSA Earned Recognition scheme, delivering a consistent standard of Professional Development to all of your drivers while keeping a documented record of their progress at the same time.