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Driver Safety and Safe Driving for Work
A practical, visual awareness course on driving safely for work. Learn how the law treats your vehicle as a workplace, then work through journey planning, distraction, speed, fatigue, pre-start vehicle checks and driving in bad weather, as paced slides with diagrams, quick self-checks and a real on-the-road decision scenario. Aligned to Safe Work Australia guidance on managing the risks of work-related driving.
Also relevant for: Farm and Rural, Construction and Trades, Electrical, Health Care, Aged Care and Community, Office and Professional, Plumbing and Gas, Warehouse, Transport and Logistics
What You Will Learn
- Explain how work-related driving is managed as a workplace under WHS duties, and who holds those duties
- Plan and manage a work journey so the risks are reduced before you set off
- Recognise and remove driver distraction, including safe practice around mobile phones
- Manage speed and fatigue: two of the biggest contributors to work-related crashes
- Complete a basic pre-start vehicle check and adjust your driving for adverse conditions
Course Content
- Your vehicle is a workplace on wheels
- By the end of this course, you'll be able to:
- Driving for work is one of the most dangerous things you'll do on the job
- The road is a workplace, so WHS duties come along for the ride
- The business must make the whole trip safe, not just hand you the keys
- Plan the journey before you turn the key
- What the duty holders are called where you work
- Anything that takes your eyes, hands or mind off driving is a distraction
- Distraction comes in three forms, and phones cause all three at once
- A two-second glance at 100 km/h means driving blind
- Your phone is the biggest distraction in the cab, even hands-free
- Set the phone up so it can't pull you off the road
- Mobile phone rules, and cameras: differ by state
- Speed decides whether a mistake becomes a crash, and whether a crash becomes a fatality
- Before you even touch the brake, speed is already stealing distance
- A small increase in speed is a big increase in crash force
- The posted limit is a maximum, not a target
- Fatigue can impair you as much as alcohol
- Learn to catch the warning signs before it's too late
- Micro-sleeps are the killer you never see coming
- Only rest fixes fatigue: the popular 'tricks' don't
- A two-minute pre-start check stops small faults becoming crashes
- Walk around the vehicle and check the basics
- Report faults, and don't drive a vehicle you know is unsafe
- Bad weather changes everything about how you drive
- Driving in the wet: what keeps you on the road
- Now put it all together
- A community health worker's day on the road
- The five things to carry away
Who This Course Is For
Mobile workers who drive as part of their job, sales reps, community and health workers, trades and fleet or light-vehicle drivers and the supervisors and managers who plan their work.
Written by Kam Askari, Managing Director of Creative Directions Management Consulting Pty Ltd, ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 Lead Auditor. MBA, Graduate Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety, MAICD. Checked against the sources listed below.
Sources and Legal References
This course is aligned to 27 official sources. Legal and regulatory references checked between 31 August 2026 and 1 November 2026.
Sources and Further Reading
This course draws on the following official sources. Always rely on the current version on the regulator’s website.
- LegislationWork Health and Safety Act 2011 (Cth)As at 31/08/2026
- LegislationWork Health and Safety Act 2011 (NSW)As at 31/08/2026
- LegislationWork Health and Safety Act 2011 (Qld)As at 31/08/2026
- LegislationWork Health and Safety Act 2020 (WA)As at 31/08/2026
- LegislationWork Health and Safety Act 2012 (SA)As at 31/08/2026
- LegislationWork Health and Safety Act 2012 (Tas)As at 31/08/2026
- LegislationWork Health and Safety Act 2011 (ACT)As at 31/08/2026
- LegislationWork Health and Safety (National Uniform Legislation) Act 2011 (NT)As at 31/08/2026
- LegislationOccupational Health and Safety Act 2004 (Vic)As at 31/08/2026
- LegislationRoad Rules 2014 (NSW)As at 31/08/2026
- LegislationRoad Safety Road Rules 2017 (Vic)As at 31/08/2026
- LegislationTransport Operations (Road Use Management, Road Rules) Regulation 2009 (Qld)As at 31/08/2026
- LegislationRoad Traffic Code 2000 (WA)As at 31/08/2026
- LegislationRoad Traffic (Road Rules - Ancillary and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2014 (SA)As at 31/08/2026
- LegislationRoad Rules 2019 (Tas)As at 31/08/2026
- LegislationRoad Transport (Road Rules) Regulation 2017 (ACT)As at 31/08/2026
- LegislationTraffic Regulations 1999 (NT)As at 31/08/2026
- Regulator guidanceSafe Work Australia, Vehicle hazardsAs at 31/08/2026
- LegislationOccupational Health and Safety Amendment (Dangerous Goods) Act 2026 (Vic)As at 27/10/2026
- LegislationWork Health and Safety Regulation 2011 (ACT)As at 31/10/2026
- LegislationWork Health and Safety Regulation 2025 (NSW)As at 01/11/2026
- LegislationWork Health and Safety (National Uniform Legislation) Regulations 2011 (NT)As at 31/10/2026
- LegislationWork Health and Safety Regulation 2011 (Qld)As at 31/10/2026
- LegislationWork Health and Safety Regulations 2012 (SA)As at 13/09/2026
- LegislationWork Health and Safety Regulations 2022 (Tas)As at 31/10/2026
- LegislationOccupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 (Vic)As at 01/11/2026
- LegislationWork Health and Safety (General) Regulations 2022 (WA)As at 31/10/2026
Always rely on the current version on the regulator’s website.
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What You Get
Certificate of Completion
This is to certify that
has successfully completed
All learning modules and the final assessment
Kam Askari
Director, Creative Directions Management Consulting Pty Ltd
This is a certificate of completion of a non-accredited professional development course. It is not a nationally recognised qualification, a VET statement of attainment, a competency card, a licence, or evidence of competency. It is issued by Creative Directions Management Consulting Pty Ltd, which is not a Registered Training Organisation.
Sample layout. Certificate ID WP-SAMPLE-0001 verifies as Hazardous Manual Tasks and Manual Handling Safety.
- Certificate verified by its ID
- 100% online, self-paced
- Six months of access
Bought for yourself: six months of access from the day you pay. Team seat: six months from the day the worker activates their code.
Level: Beginner
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