Drivexcel is a Norfolk based advanced and defensive driver training organisation specialising in low-cost driver risk assessments for employers to comply with their and Health & Safety obligations. Instructors are highly trained exclusively ex-police officers. Cost from just £65 + VAT they take just 90 minutes and cause minimal disruption. Individual courses also tailored for young drivers, phobic drivers, new drivers and those seeking to improve fuel economy. We are based near Norwich but cover the whole of East Anglia, including Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and Cambridgeshire as well as Lincolnshire. We cover towns and cities such as Norwich, Great Yarmouth, Kings Lynn, Thetford, Cromer, Sheringham, Wymondham, Attleborough, Aylsham, Dereham, Swaffham, Fakenham, Acle, Long Stratton, Ipswich, Lowestoft, Bury St Edmunds, Newmarket, Bungay, beccles, Cambridge, Wisbech, Peterborough, Ely, Chelmsford, Southend, Maldon, Billericay, Colchester, Lincoln, Grantham, Skegness and Boston. We can offer defensive driver tuition to advanced level in the whole of the UK. We teach the British Police advanced driving system based on the famous Roadcraft manual. This system has been taught to generations of police advanced drivers and all our instructors former British police traffic officers trained to this standard. We also offer driver training in skid avoidance and control

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  • Employee risk assessments Norfolk
  • Defensive driving Norfolk
  • Advanced driving Norfolk
  • Phobic driving course
  • Young driver courses
  • New driver courses
  • Exclusively ex-police instructors
  • Skid avoidance
  • Skid control
  • Roadcraft police advanced driving instructors
  • Advanced driving tuition in Norfolk
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  • Advanced driving tuition Essex
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  • Health & Safety Executive Driving at Work regulations
  • Skidpan
  • Arrowhead technique
  • Vanishing point technique
  • Limit point technique
  • Economic driving
  • Driving for fuel economy
  • Cognitive Behavioural Training for driving fears & phobias
  • Safe Driving coaching

    Copyright Mike Weatherstone, 2011

    Drivexcel

    Providing driving excellence at minimum cost.  Service providers to government, local authority, charities, national and local companies

     

    “Duty of Care” employee driver risk assessment, defensive driver training, cognitive behavioural therapy for driving phobias and trauma caused by accident

     

     

    Driver Risk Assessments for Employers

     

    Free I hour risk assessment for a person of your choice

     

    If you would like to try before you buy, please ask.  We will visit your premises at an agreed time and risk assess the person of your choice without charge or obligation.  All you need to do is provide a suitable vehicle insured for your driver.

     

    Why should I as an employer bother with risk assessments for my employees who drive as part of their work?

     

    The “clever” answer might be that you could go to jail if you don’t and your company be shut down permanently.  The more considered response would be to alert you to the requirements and show you a simple and cost-effective way to comply with them.

     

    It is not enough for the employer to merely check an employee has a licence and that vehicles are maintained. Health & safety law relates to driving as to all other activities at work.  It applies equally to employees making one short journey to the post office weekly and to those driving 50,000 miles each year.  It includes the self-employed and those using their own vehicles. Directors are employees too and are therefore subject to the same rules.  If something goes badly wrong, you as the employer will be required to demonstrate you have carried out your “Duty of Care” by properly risk assessing your staff who drive as part of their work.

     

    The good news is that Drivexcel offers very cost-effective risk assessments which remove your staff from the workplace for around 90 minutes only and cost just £70 plus VAT if we can assess four drivers in the same day.  We can do lesser numbers of course but the cost rises slightly per driver.  

     

    Unlike computer based simulations, Drivexcel risk assessments are the real thing.  The fact is that no computer based simulation can ever accurately assess driving risk - it MUST be done face to face and on the road to detect the very subtle signs of aggression and inattention which form the core of any assessment. The difference in cost is negligible - the cost to you, your employees and your business of getting it wrong is incalculable.

     

    For more in-depth training we also offer a full day driver Development Course for two drivers together at a total cost of £275 + VAT. Both short and long sessions cover awareness of the police “Roadcraft” system of driving, reading the road, anticipation, taking bends, skid avoidance, hazard awareness, fuel economy, defensive driving techniques, avoiding speeding penalties etc. But clearly the longer sessions cover all areas more thoroughly.  If possible we aim to identify and correct any issues we discover during the same session.   

     

    The HSE publish a very helpful free booklet explaining an employer’s obligations relating to Driving at Work (downloadable pdf) at this link http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg382.pdf

     

     

    Contact us today to book or to arrange your free trail assessment.

    Tel. (01508) 488181

    info@drivexcel.co.uk