Human Factors and Road Risk Management (PsyDrive)
Who should attend?
The Human Factors and Road Risk Management Programme is attended by a diverse range of road safety professionals including road safety specialists, safety health and environment managers, human resource managers, fleet risk managers, motor risk insurance managers and brokers, roads policing professionals and collision investigators, highways engineers, emergency fire and rescue personnel, ambulance NHS trust personnel, approved driving instructors and driver trainers.
Why should you attend?
To obtain practical guidance on understanding human error in interaction with traffic and strategies for managing road risk. The programme develops your competences in identifying when and how human error in road use is most likely to occur and what strategies can be put in place to mitigate the risk. The programme provides you with the human factors skills to improve road safety, builds your knowledge of road user error and develops your confidence to manage road user risk. Level 1 of the Human Factors and Road Risk Management programme focuses on how the individual interacts with the vehicle and road environment.The programme is delivered by an experienced Human Factors specialist with extensive experience in driver behaviour.
What will you learn?
At the end of the course, you will be able to:
- Define what is meant by the safe system approach and how Human Factors fits in.
- Identify types of human error and understand how human error can contribute to crash involvement.
- Evaluate the factors that affect human performance abilities and limitations in driving.
- Explain the impact of workload and fatigue on driving performance.
- Describe evidence-based interventions for improving road risk and how systems can be designed to minimise the impact of human factors on road risk.
- Evaluate the effect of motives on driver error, violation, behaviour and crash risk.
- Review the impact of emotions on driver behaviour and how to manage emotions.
- Explain the role of individual differences in driver behaviour and how to profile risk
- Understand the application of behaviour change principles in the design of road safety interventions
Expected outcomes
You will develop your competencies in Human Factors and road risk management by applying the new knowledge and skills acquired in the design of interventions for improving road safety. Successful completion of the course will help you to demonstrate your credibility in managing road risk to others.
Course content
The programme in made up of five modules for Level 1 and five modules for Level 2 as follows:-
Level 1
- Safe Systems Module one describes the main principles of the Safe System approach in which outcomes at the ‘sharp end’ are fed back to higher levels of the hierarchy to improve road safety. Strengthening the systems helps to contain human error.
- Human Error Module two considers that humans are flexible and adaptable and this can increase the risk of error. Human error can be provoked by a wide variety of factors and errors can be understood, and categorised.
- Human Performance Module three describes the factors that affect human performance abilities and limitations. We are bombarded by numerous sources of information whilst driving with much of the Information being processed via our visual system. How do drivers attend to the road and in-vehicle systems? How do we select critical information to attend to?
- Fatigue and Workload Module four considers that fatigue and sleepiness are usually used interchangeably but they reflect different states and human processes, and the causes and countermeasures are different. Sleepiness is a strong propensity to fall asleep, whereas fatigue results from mental or physical exertion. This module considers the effect of both fatigue and workload on driving performance.
- Road Risk Management Module five considers evidence-based interventions for managing road risk by addressing the conditions that increase unsafe acts and error frequency. This involves thinking about human error across all the systems that impact on human behaviour.
Level 2
- Motivation Module one describes the main characteristics and theories of motivation to understand road user behaviour. The module considers how reinforcement and punishment play an important role in behavioural change.
- Emotion Module two aims to evaluate the impact of emotions on driver behaviour. Techniques and strategies for managing driver emotions are discussed.
- Stress Module three considers how stress involves changes affecting nearly every system of the body, influencing how people think, feel, and behave. This module describes how stress can increase the risk of road traffic collisions and approaches to manage stress are presented.
- Individual Differences Module four describes how individual differences are relatively enduring psychological characteristics that determine our responses to situations. This module explores how to assess the characteristics that can influence driver behaviour.
- Behavioural Change Module five covers the groundwork for the design of a behavioural change intervention, using evidence-based models and techniques.
Assessment
Delegates will complete short activities throughout the programme to check for knowledge and skill development. There is a multiple-choice assessment at the end of the course.
What’s included?
The course includes a number of interactive group exercises and case studies to aid understanding of the topic. Delegates will be provided with an electronic copy of the course material and a CIEHF accredited CPD certificate on successful completion of the course.
About PsyDrive
PsyDrive is a specialist provider of accredited training, research, assessment and interventions for improved road safety. PsyDrive has a well-established Human Factors capability with a network of associates to ensure your project and training is delivered according to your requirements. Our expertise and experience is built into our courses and services covering the latest thinking in road risk management.
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