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Winter 2024

Welcome to PsyDrive’s Winter 2024 newsletter!

 

PsyDrive was set up by Dr Lisa Dorn to deliver accredited training for road safety professionals, consultancy, research and evidence-based interventions for improved road user behaviour. We've now been established for just over a year and what a year it has been! You can read about the groundbreaking projects delivered by PsyDrive below .

 

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The next level: Human Factors and Road Risk Management accredited course

 

PsyDrive were excited to launch Level 2 of their successful Human Factors and Road Risk Management Programme accredited by the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors. Whether it’s to design a behavioural intervention in your workplace, to improve your driver coaching skills, or to support your clients to understand Human Factors for managing road risk, Level 2 will help you to gain the insights needed to understand road user psychology and behaviour.

 

For more information about Level 2, click here.

 

We welcomed many delegates from a range of professional backgrounds to our accredited course. The final course of the year was delivered in December and bespoke for John Lewis Partnership’s training managers. It has been wonderful to receive so many excellent testimonials from senior professionals in the road safety field. Here are just three of them from one of our student cohorts in the last quarter of the 2023.

 

Once again, Lisa delivers at an exceptional level. Her depth of knowledge in Human Factors affecting road risk is second to none, and she ensures the training is pitched at exactly the right level for the attendees. Without a doubt, one of the best trainers with such specialist knowledge I have ever come across.

 

Ian Cooper - Fleet Risk Consultant; HCI Global

 

The course provides excellent insight into Human Factors and Road Risk Management that is thought provoking and insightful for anyone working in transport. Lisa's delivery is superb and her knowledge on the topic is outstanding. Look forward to the Level 2 course.

 

Gill Milner Head of Risk Management Solutions - Casualty Classes Aviva PLC

 

I found the course to be thoroughly engaging - I would recommend this to anyone and everyone working in road safety, driver education and related fields. Lisa delivers the course in a professional yet relaxed way which ensures that delegates can discuss how the theories and models could benefit their specific contexts.

 

Sarah Di Salvo - UKROEd Head of Learning and Course Development

 

Please visit our website for more information, or secure your place by booking directly here. See new dates for 2024 below:-

 

Level 1

28th - 29th February

9th - 10th April

Level 2

18th - 19th April

23rd - 24th May

New Research Outputs Released

Ground-breaking project for Travis Perkins PLC

Travis Perkins PLC commissioned PsyDrive to research three main areas associated with risk of incidents when driving for work. Firstly, how does a break from driving for weeks/months impact on skilled driving performance? Secondly, what are the human factors associated with incidents during slow-speed manoeuvres? Thirdly, what is the impact of stress on driving performance at work? The findings will be used to guide associated policies, interventions, and targeted road safety training leading to some “first of the first” road safety interventions and outcomes for Travis Perkins PLC.

 

Dr Lisa Dorn presented the results at the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport 10th Annual Transport and Logistics Safety Forum at the National Memorial Arboretum in the presence of Her Royal Highness, The Princess Royal.

 

To read more about our work with Travis Perkins PLC, click here.

Proof-of-Concept Study with Lincolnshire Police

Significant numbers of drivers continue to drive while disqualified and have an increased likelihood of being involved in a crash, but currently there are limited ways of detecting disqualified offenders. During 2023, PsyDrive worked with Lincolnshire Police on a proof-of-concept study to investigate whether an ankle tagging system can reliably detect when an offender is driving. The project, funded by the Road Safety Trust aims to validate the tag so that it may be relied upon by the police, prison and probation staff and crown prosecutors to accurately and reliably detect whether a disqualified driver is driving. Click here to read more about this project.

 

Recent Talks

Is Virtual Reality an Effective Road Safety Intervention?

Immersive Community Education (ICE Live)

www.icelive.org.uk

Birmingham

18th October 2023

 

Fatigue and On-Road Driving

Rail Wellbeing Live

www.railwellbeinglive.co.uk

7th November 2023

 

Skill Fade, Workload, and Driver Distraction

Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport

www.ciltuk.org.uk

14th November 2023

 

Covid-19: Was it good or bad for road safety?

National Highways Analysts Conference

https://nationalhighways.co.uk/suppliers/events/

22nd November 2023

 

Fatigue and Road Risk

Network Rail

www.networkrail.co.uk

23rd November 2023 

 

Up-Coming Talk: ADINJC Scotland Conference

 Approved Driving Instructors National Joint Council have invited Dr Lisa Dorn to deliver a talk on the training implications for improving the safety of automated driving

 

For more information, please follow this link.

 

UK Fleet Champion Awards

 

Dr Lisa Dorn has been on the judging panel for the UK Fleet Champion Awards for 8 years and celebrates the 2023 winners. Click here to find out more.

 

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