Are you a driving school manager?
In search of a health and safety risk assessment tailored to your activity?
Do you need a pre-filled assessment to save you hours of work?
Want to be in compliance with safety regulations?
 
Our Health and Safety Risk Assessment is designed to meet your needs with:
→ A professional risk assessment totally specific to driving schools.
→ Risk prevention proposals dedicated to driving schools.
→ The integration of risks linked to the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic.
 
All this in an easily editable Excel format, allowing you to make personalized updates on your own.
 
FEATURES OF THE HEALTH AND SAFETY RISK ASSESSMENT 
 
This 5-page Excel file includes:
A Cover Page
A Company Information page
A presentation of the Risk Assessment Methodology used.
An occupational risks assessment tailored to your sector of activity.
A risk prevention schedule with all the different safety measures.

It contains 23 occupational risk situations classified into 5 work units:
Driving lessons
Driving theory class
Secretariat - Student reception
Contact with students
Cleaning of vehicle - premises
 
☑ Complies with the employer's obligation to assess risks
(Regulation 3 of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulation 1999)
☑ Adheres to the General Principles of Prevention
(Schedule 1 of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulation 1999)
☑ Takes into account good practice and pitfalls in risk assessment
(Report RR151 from the Health and Safety Executive)
 
EXCERPTS FROM THE HEALTH AND SAFETY RISK ASSESSMENT 
 
The danger of mental overload: Driving instructors face a heavy mental workload on a daily basis. This mental load is primarily due to the constant stress resulting from the need to be constantly on the alert during driving lessons. This is all the more true as the instructor is responsible in the event of an accident, regardless of the student's level of proficiency. Last but not least, in addition to monitoring traffic, the instructor must constantly keep an eye on his pupil's actions to correct any shortcomings. A number of factors significantly increase the mental workload of driving instructors: learning to drive with pupils who have difficulties or are reluctant to receive instructions, and driving lessons in a more accident-prone environment (e.g. built-up areas during rush hour, main roads in fog, etc.). Overall, the mental strain increases as the working day progresses, and as the hours of driving increase. This can lead to a deterioration in the working environment, irritability, insomnia, addictive behaviours (alcohol, food, drugs), and the development of generalized anxiety disorders or depression over the long term. If, at this stage, the person is unable to stop and continues to take it out on him or herself, the result is burn-out, from which it will be much longer and more difficult to recover, sometimes making it definitively impossible to return to the same job.
 
The danger of road accidents: Every day, driving instructors have to climb aboard a driving school vehicle driven on an open road by a learner. Because of their lack of reflexes and vehicle control, learner drivers are far more likely to have an accident than the average driver. Instructors are therefore far more exposed to the risk of a traffic accident than any other road professional, even though their dual pedals enable them to intervene if necessary. For the instructor, the risk of a road accident will vary greatly from one pupil to another, depending on the pupil's level. The probability of an accident will also depend on external factors such as weather conditions, road surface, roadworks or sudden obstacles on the road. In the event of imminent danger, the monitor's state of fatigue, affecting his or her ability to concentrate and reaction time, will be decisive in avoiding certain accidents. The main potential damage is caused by road accidents alone, or involving other vehicles and/or cyclists and pedestrians in the worst-case scenario. These collisions can result in a variety of injuries: haematomas, wounds, fractures of one or more bones, crushing of one or more limbs, coma or even death of one or more persons. Road accidents can also result in injuries that prevent people from driving as easily as before.
 
The danger of long working hours: Driving instructors are exposed to long working hours. This is because driving school students have very different availability times (early in the morning, during the day, or late at night), and as a result, you have to make yourself available so that they can complete their driving hours. However, long working hours can disrupt biological rhythms, with adverse effects on health. The more students a driving school has taking the driving test at the same time, the more likely it is that instructors will have to work long hours. The atypical working hours of driving instructors expose them to mental fatigue, reducing their ability to concentrate and react when needed on the road.
 
 
A GUARANTEE OF THE QUALITY OF OUR HEALTH AND SAFETY RISK ASSESSMENT 
_ We're registered as Professional Risk Prevention Consultants.
_ Our team comprises graduate safety engineers.
_ Our documents are routinely checked by safety inspectors.
_ We frequently update our Occupational Risk Assessments.
 
RESOURCES 
_ "Health risks in being an Approved Driving Instructor (ADI)" by Right Driver.