Defensive Driver Training – [Complete Video Package]
$239
If you have employees that drive as part of their job then teaching them the skills of defensive driving can be a lifesaver. This training video will teach your employees all about the importance of defensive driving, and how to react while behind the wheel. Traveling on our nation’s roadways can be dangerous.
Although you are always responsible for the way you operate your vehicle, the one thing you can’t control is how other people drive their vehicles. That is why learning the art of defensive driving is so important. In addition to other drivers, it’s important to know that defensive driving can also be used in bad weather, car malfunctions, and other hazardous situations.
This Defensive Driver Training Video Teaches the Following Important Concepts:
- What is a “safety cushion” and how do you use it?
- What part of the lane should your car or vehicle be in?
- How do you handle a tire blowout?
- How often should you check your mirrors and what should you look for?
- What is the “counting rule” and the “three second rule”?
- What do you do if your car starts to hydroplane?
- How do you pass trucks and buses differently than cars?
- What can you do about distracted drivers?
- How do you handle tailgaters or other aggressive drivers?
- How to deal with road rage?
- How to deal with bad weather including snow, rain or other hazards?
- What do you do in case your car starts skidding?
If you have employees who drive, do yourself and your business a favor by teaching them the benefits and techniques of defensive driving.
This training video is available in an English or Spanish language version, on either a DVD or a USB stick, and the training session runs about 18 minutes.
This Complete Defensive Driving Training Program Includes These Items:
This is a complete training program, not a standalone video clip. Everything below is included in the price, and the printable documents are what turn a training session into a training record you can produce if an insurer, a customer or an OSHA inspector asks how you prepared your drivers.
- Full-length defensive driving safety training video — 18 minutes, on DVD or USB stick, in English or Spanish
- Employee quiz and answer sheet, so you can show the material was understood and not just played in the room
- A “Presenter’s Guide” if you are going to do this training in person
- A printable training sign-in sheet to keep track of your training program
- A printable Certificate of Completion. You fill in each employee’s name and the training date, and you can print as many copies as you need — there is no per-employee or per-session cost
Because it is a one-time purchase you can show as many times as you like, the same kit covers this year’s refresher, next year’s, and every new hire in between. Most companies run it as a stand-alone safety meeting and then repeat it annually — OSHA’s guidance for employers specifically recommends periodic refresher training so drivers do not get complacent.
Defensive Driving Training Delivery Options
You can run this training two ways, and they suit different operations rather than competing with each other.
- DVD or USB kit — English or Spanish, with the Presenter’s Guide, quiz, answer sheet, sign-in sheet and reusable certificate. Built for training a whole crew together in one room, and for companies that want a physical copy on the shelf that does not depend on a network connection.
- Online course — the same training delivered through our online safety training system, either on its own or as part of a library of 250+ courses. Employees work through it at their own pace on any device, completions are tracked automatically, and each employee receives a certificate. This is the better fit for multi-site operations, drivers who are rarely all in one building, and new hires who start one at a time.
Many companies use both — the group session for the annual refresher, and the online course for people joining through the year.
Why Your Company Needs Defensive Driving Training
OSHA has no standard that specifically requires defensive driving training. That surprises a lot of safety managers, and it is often misread as meaning driving is not an OSHA issue. It is. The duty comes from the General Duty Clause — Section 5(a)(1) of the OSH Act — which requires every employer to furnish a workplace free from recognized hazards, and driving on the job is about as recognized a hazard as there is. If an employee is behind the wheel on your time, they are at work.
OSHA’s own guidance for employers on motor vehicle safety spells out what it expects you to have in place: a written policy covering driver training, vehicle maintenance, safe operations, seat belt use, and distracted, drowsy and impaired driving — plus a driver training program specific to the vehicles your people actually operate, and periodic refresher training so drivers do not get complacent. This kit is built to be the training half of that program.
The reason defensive driving is the right subject for that training is simple: your employees can follow every rule in the vehicle code and still be hit by someone who does not. You can control how your drivers behave. You cannot control the tailgater, the distracted driver drifting out of their lane, or the car that runs a light. Defensive driving is the set of habits — following distance, lane position, mirror discipline, an escape route — that keeps your driver out of the crash somebody else causes. It is also what keeps them in control when the problem is not another driver at all: a blowout, a skid, hydroplaning, or a snowstorm that arrived faster than the forecast.
There is no required length and no required retraining interval for this training, which means you are free to build a program that actually fits your operation rather than hitting an hour count. What matters is that the training happened, that it covered the hazards your drivers meet, and that you can show it — which is what the quiz, sign-in sheet and certificate in this kit are for.
Who Needs This Training
Anyone who drives as part of their job, which is a much wider group than most companies count. It is not just the people with “driver” in their job title:
- Fleet and company-vehicle drivers — service technicians, delivery and courier drivers, utility and maintenance crews, anyone in a van or pickup
- Employees driving their own cars for work — sales reps, home health and social workers, inspectors, property managers, and staff running errands on company time. This group is routinely left out of driver training, and they are on the road just as much
- Supervisors and managers who drive between sites, and who need to know what the policy says before they enforce it
- New hires, during onboarding and before they are handed keys
- Your whole driving workforce, annually — the refresher OSHA’s guidance recommends
This program is written for employees driving cars, vans and light trucks. If your drivers hold a CDL or operate large commercial trucks, they face a different set of hazards — stopping distance, blind spots, load shift — and their training falls under DOT and FMCSA rules rather than general workplace safety. Use our defensive driving training for CDL and large truck drivers for that group. Companies running mixed fleets often buy both and assign each crew the right one.
Two other programs pair naturally with this one. Driver Safety – The Basics covers the ground before defensive technique — vehicle condition, pre-trip checks, seat belts, and drugs and alcohol behind the wheel — and works well as the first session for a new driver. Our distracted driving training video goes deep on the single hazard that has changed most in the last decade. Together the three make a full-year driver safety curriculum.
Defensive Driver Safety Training Video – Full Length Preview:
FAQs on Defensive Driving Training
Answered by our in-house OSHA Authorized Trainer – Jason Hessom
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There is no OSHA standard that specifically requires defensive driving training, but that does not mean you have no obligation. Employers are covered by the General Duty Clause — Section 5(a)(1) of the OSH Act — which requires a workplace free from recognized hazards, and driving for work is one of them. OSHA’s own guidance for employers on motor vehicle safety goes further and recommends a written policy covering driver training, vehicle maintenance, safe operations, seat belt use, and distracted, drowsy and impaired driving, along with a driver training program specific to the vehicles your employees actually operate and periodic refresher training. Because no standard applies, there is no required number of hours and no required retraining interval — you decide what fits your operation. What matters is that the training covers the hazards your drivers face and that you can document it happened.
The video runs 18 minutes, which makes it a comfortable fit for a single safety meeting. It covers the core defensive driving habits: what a safety cushion is and how to maintain one, where in the lane your vehicle should sit, the counting rule and the three second rule for following distance, how often to check your mirrors and what you are looking for, and how to pass trucks and buses differently than cars. It then works through the situations drivers actually get caught out by — tailgaters and aggressive drivers, road rage, distracted drivers around you, bad weather including snow and rain, a tire blowout, hydroplaning, and what to do when the vehicle starts to skid. The emphasis throughout is on the driver’s response, because the behavior of everyone else on the road is the part you cannot control.
Anyone who drives as part of their job, which is usually a wider group than companies expect. That includes fleet and company-vehicle drivers such as service technicians, delivery drivers and maintenance crews; employees who drive their own cars for work, like sales reps, home health workers, inspectors and anyone running errands on company time; and supervisors who travel between sites. Employees using personal vehicles are the group most often left out of driver training, and they are on the road just as much as the fleet. New hires should be trained during onboarding, before they are handed keys, and most companies then rerun the program annually as the refresher OSHA’s guidance recommends. Because the kit is a one-time purchase you can show as many times as you like, training every new intake costs you nothing extra.
No — and it is worth being clear about that before you order. This is workplace safety training for employers who need to train the people who drive for them. It is not a traffic school, it is not approved by any state DMV or traffic court, and it cannot be used to remove points from a license, resolve a citation, or claim a personal auto insurance discount. Those programs have to be approved by the state or court that is asking for them, and they are a different product with a different purpose. If an individual employee needs a course for a ticket or a license issue, they should go to their state’s approved provider. What this program is for is meeting your responsibility as an employer to train and document, and reducing the crashes, vehicle damage and lost time that come out of your budget.
Not on its own. This program is written for employees driving cars, vans and light trucks, and it teaches defensive driving from that perspective. Drivers who hold a CDL or operate large commercial trucks face a different set of hazards — much longer stopping distances, far larger blind spots, load shift, and the handling of a heavy vehicle in wind and on grades — and their training also falls under DOT and FMCSA requirements rather than general workplace safety. For that group, use our defensive driving training built for CDL and large truck drivers. If you run a mixed fleet, buying both and assigning each crew the right program is the cleanest approach and is what most of our fleet customers do.
Yes. The complete kit comes in English or Spanish, on either DVD or USB stick, and you choose both the language and the format when you order. It is worth taking that choice seriously rather than defaulting to English. Defensive driving training only changes behavior if the driver genuinely follows the reasoning — why a three second gap works, why lane position matters, what to do in the second after a blowout. A driver who watched a video in a language they only partly read has been shown the training, not given it. Companies with mixed crews often buy both versions and run two sessions.
The kit is built around that. It includes a printable employee sign-in sheet to record who attended and when, a trainee quiz with an answer sheet so you can show the material was understood rather than simply played in the room, and a Training Completion Certificate that you fill in with each employee’s name and the training date. The certificate is completely reusable, so you can issue one to every employee for every session you run at no additional cost. Kept together, those three documents are what you would hand an insurer, a customer auditor, or an OSHA inspector who asks how you prepared your drivers. The kit also includes a Presenter’s Guide so whoever runs the session can lead the discussion consistently. Employees who take the course online receive a completion certificate for it as well.
Yes. Alongside the DVD and USB kit, this training is available as an online course, taken either on its own or as part of our online safety training library of more than 250 courses. Completions are tracked automatically and each employee receives a certificate for the course. The two routes suit different operations rather than competing. The DVD or USB kit is built for training a whole crew together in one room and comes with the Presenter’s Guide, quiz, answer sheet and sign-in sheet you need to document a group session. The online course suits multi-site operations, drivers who are rarely all in the same building, and staff who onboard one at a time, since each person works through it at their own pace. Plenty of companies use both — the group session for the annual refresher, and the online course for new hires arriving through the year.
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Outstanding in delivering vital driving safety information. A top-notch resource.
Makes driving safety clear.
We try to teach all of our drivers how to be defensive drivers. It’s not THEIR driving that is a potential problem, oftentimes it’s OTHER drivers. This video is a good tool in our driving safety toolbelt.