VTCT Skills for Logistics - Driver Assessor (DA)

Course Summary

This course focuses on the practical aspects of driver assessment and corrective training and can prove an extremely cost-effective way of providing training throughout a company.

Often the first step in a potential trainer’s journey is to become a Driver Assessor. A Driver Assessor’s role is to assess drivers against a national standard creating a risk grading that providing the business with an understanding of the level of risk each driver poses. A key benefit to this structured assessment is ensuring that all drivers are graded in the same way to a recognised and robust national standard.

Driver Assessors are taught how to risk grade in 5 bands from low risk to high risk, enabling training and interventions to be targeted at the higher risk drivers. Driver Assessors benefit businesses by identifying risk and helping to reduce driver accident severity and frequency.

Many businesses have Driver Assessors who are overseen by Driver Trainer / Assessors (DTA), whose role is to train drivers to improve their skills and reduce their risk grading. Although candidates can go straight to a DTA course, it is often the next step in a trainer’s journey.

The course is structured into three progressive parts:

• Part 1 – Theory: Instructional techniques, legislation, Highway Code, Eco-Safe Driving principles, testing frameworks.
• Part 2 – Practical Driving Ability: Demonstrating safe, competent driving to DVSA standards.
• Part 3 – Assessment Ability: Assessment of faults, providing feedback to candidates.