Energy Sector Driver Improvement

A 1-day training course to enhance defensive driving skills, off-road vehicle handling, and risk management. This is ideal for energy sector drivers.

$580.00 CAD
Language: English
Certification: Yes
Digital Badge: Yes
Course Length:

Requirements

This course requires email to be filled
This course requires address to be filled

Additional Course Information

Industry-Specific / Blended / Corporate Drivers / ILT

SKU: ESDI03272025

Course by: Fleet Safety International

Develop the advanced defensive driving skills, hazard awareness, and practical experience needed to drive more safely in demanding energy-sector environments.

What You’ll Learn

  • Advanced Defensive Driving Skills: Learn collision avoidance, emergency braking, hazard identification, and techniques for managing challenging road conditions.
  • Hands-On In-Vehicle Training: Receive one-on-one coaching, professional driver assessment, and practical experience with FSI’s specially designed skid vehicles.
  • Risk Management and Safety Strategies: Build skills in fatigue management, journey planning, hazard recognition, and safer decision-making behind the wheel.
  • Certificate of Completion: Receive a certificate demonstrating competency in defensive driving for the energy sector.

Location

This training takes place in Calgary, Alberta.

Vehicle Requirements

Learners must supply their own vehicle for the in-vehicle training component—typically, their company vehicle. Training in the vehicle they drive for work makes the experience practical and directly applicable to their daily driving responsibilities.As training takes place on a gravel track, an SUV or truck is recommended.

Syllabus

Classroom Training — 3 Hours

  • SAFER© System of Defensive Driving
  • Adverse road conditions, including gravel roads, lease roads, snow, and ice
  • Driving habits, attitudes, and behaviours
  • Hazard identification
  • Collision avoidance
  • Ditch entry and recovery
  • Emergency braking with ABS
  • Fatigue management
  • Journey management
  • Deer and animal collision prevention
  • Safe driving techniques

In-Vehicle Driving Training — 4 Hours

  • Pre-trip and post-trip inspections
  • General driving evaluation
  • Commentary driving and hazard identification
  • Gravel-road skill building
  • Braking and turning techniques
  • Brake-and-avoid manoeuvres
  • Ditch entry and recovery
  • Skid control
  • Collision avoidance
  • Rear-crash avoidance
  • Emergency braking, including progressive squeeze braking and anti-lock braking
  • High-speed collision avoidance
  • Slalom driving

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