Pre-trip training of drivers on road safety: a description, features and feedback

The rules of road safety are mandatory for everyone, both for drivers and for pedestrians. Compliance with the rules should not be carried out for fear of punishment, but for responsibility for one's life and those around them.

At the legislative level, road safety is understood as the degree of protection from road accidents and their consequences. Normative acts require employers to conduct trainings for drivers of vehicles without fail. The main purpose of such events is to inform the employee of all the information that will allow him to fully perform his functions for driving a vehicle, not to allow an emergency on the road. Information should be generated in the instruction, and depending on the type of briefing, it is the information required in the particular situation that is delivered.

Who gives instructions

The management of a logistics company or other carrier organization is not entitled to allow employees to drive a vehicle without instruction.

As a rule, the company has a department for traffic safety, whose specialists and develop training programs. General management and control over the development and implementation of these activities is carried out by the head of the unit. Functions of direct carrying out of instructors of drivers are assigned to the engineer on a DB or on the mechanic, the chief of garage, depending on structure of the enterprise.

Types of briefings

Carrying out of briefings on traffic safety of drivers is necessarily fixed in the logs. The events themselves are held according to pre-programmed programs and are divided into several types.

Introductory

Briefing is mixed and conducted during employment. Not only the information on the rules of the database, but also information on labor protection is delivered to the employee. Instruction is mandatory for all professionals who will manage the vehicle, regardless of work experience and qualifications, which causes positive feedback from drivers.

Primary

Instruction is carried out in the workplace and is also considered mixed, as it includes not only the rules for the safe operation of the vehicle, but also the general safety requirements in the workplace.

Repeated

Subject to quarterly conduct and includes all information brought to the primary briefing. Such an event is noted by the employees on the positive side. They believe that it is very useful to repeat what was learned before, because much is gradually forgotten.

Pre-trip training of drivers on road safety

It is carried out in a number of cases:

• If the driver will be sent on the planned route for the first time;
• Transportation of children;
• Transportation of dangerous or bulky cargo;
• If the driver is transferred to another vehicle.

Seasonal

To be held twice a year. Subjects of briefings - features of transport management in the off-season and in severe winter conditions. Comments of drivers about this event are only positive, because they understand how important it is in difficult situations not to get lost and know how to act.

Special

It is carried out in emergency cases, when it is necessary to inform the personnel about the changes in regulatory enactments regarding traffic safety, about the need to change the route or about the "horrific" accident on the road, about the threat of a possible terrorist act.

The information about the pre-trip training of drivers on road safety is not recorded, a mark is placed on the road list.

Pre-trip briefing

Pre-trip training of drivers on road safety refers to the current one and is carried out by the official appointed by the person responsible for such activities. The program must include the following information:

• What kind of road conditions on the route, dangerous places along the route;
• Weather forecast for the day;
• What are the properties of the cargo, if it is a question of cargo transportation;
• What safety measures should the driver observe when transporting people;
• If the route has specific conditions, then how should the driver behave in emergency situations?
• A mode of rest and a food;
• Responsibility of the driver for the serviceability of the vehicle along the whole journey;
• The order of stops and parking, what measures should be taken to protect the cargo;
• The procedure for crossing railway crossings;
• What measures should be taken to safely carry out loading and unloading operations, how to properly fasten cargo;
• Responsibility for unjustified deviation from the route.

Instruction for transportation of children

Pre-trip training of drivers on road safety in case of transportation of children, in addition to general information, must include the requirements of RF Government Decree No. 117 of 17.12.13. In particular, for transportation of children, a vehicle that has been in operation for more than 10 years can not be used. Cars must necessarily be equipped with GLONASS equipment and a tachograph. A sign "Transportation of children" is mandatory. In this case, items should be included in the approximate topics of drivers' briefings:

• Features and rules for boarding and boarding children;
• A schedule of technical stops, for example, every 50 minutes, but not less than 100 km;
• Stops for food, every 3 or 5 hours;
• Stop overnight.

The main thing is that you can not transport children from 11 pm to 6 am, only in extreme cases, for example, to travel to the airport or train station. It is also possible to move the vehicle with an organized group of children at night, if there is a delay on the way and there is not more than 50 km left until the end of the trip.

The customer, that is, the school or other children's institution that orders transport services, can make separate demands to drivers, vehicles, naturally, within the framework of the current legislation. Such additional information is brought to the attention of the driver on pre-trip training.

General requirements

An overview of the instructions for drivers gives a complete understanding that there are general requirements for road safety and occupational safety. So, for example, people are not allowed to drive in a sickly state and overworked. Before admission to the performance of duties, the driver must undergo a medical examination. It is forbidden to drink alcoholic beverages and narcotics during the period of transport management. If the driver rests in the car's cab, the engine must be switched off. You can not move in places where there are no road passes for cars. The driver must always carry a driver's license, a travel list and be able to provide first aid.

It does not matter what the driver's briefing is, introductory or pre-trip, the main purpose of each of them is to consolidate knowledge about safe driving methods, to bring information about the alleged danger and weather conditions.