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Four Wheel Drive Skills and Awareness

This training will enable trainees to drive a four wheel drive over varied terrain safely, effectively and responsibly.

Description

This course is aimed at ensuring four wheel drive or quad bike operators can understand and demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and attributes for all essential areas covered under the full “best practice” guidelines for four wheel drive operation in the workplace. This includes being able to drive a four wheel drive over varied terrain safely, effectively and responsibly. Driving techniques that minimise negative impact upon the environment are encouraged.

Course Structure

The course includes a combination of theory and practical sessions including the following features:

  • Operating a 4WD vehicle in an off-road situation
  • Safety requirements
  • Driver ability and awareness and passenger safety
  • Vehicle designs and operating systems including current vehicle technology
  • Preparing a vehicle for use – including pre-start and shutdown
  • Hazard identification and safety assessment specific to terrain
  • Terrain formation and composition recognition including driving techniques to utilise
  • Recovery from a stall while climbing
  • Stability dynamics
  • Water crossings
  • Negotiating uneven terrain, hill ascents, descents, traverse driving, and related difficulties
  • Understanding vehicle movement utilising traction, momentum, gravity and centrifugal force combinations
  • Explain driving hazards and risk reduction strategies, techniques and responses to driving hazards
  • Introduction to winching and towing using ropes, strops and snatch
  • Introduction to recovery techniques and equipment
  • Introduction to towing trailers both on and off-road including towing of loads
  • Introduction to defensive driving and driver awareness

Delivery

We can also cover Quad Bikes, LUVs, UTVs, Side by Side's, or anything else your team may work on regularly.

This course is also available online as a theory refresher.

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NOTE: This training is not for licensing and does not issue Unit Standards.

NOTE: Our Public Courses will only run if the minimum number of attendees has been met. If you book onto one of our public training sessions and the minimum number has not been met, the training may get cancelled. We will endeavour to give you at least five working days notice of cancellation.

Prerequisites

Trainees must hold a full or restricted Class 1 license. Trainees must provide their own 4WD, in road-worthy condition, with a current WOF and REGO. 4WD vehicle numbers in the training area may need to be restricted depending on course participant numbers.

Training 4 Safety Limited will take every step possible to ensure no damage is made to your vehicles while training with us, however, accidents can happen. By booking onto this course, you accept we do not take any responsibility for damage that may occur to your vehicles while you are training with us.

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