“As a company, we are very excited to be associated with Volvo, as their focus on safety fits so well with our company’s principles. However, even with all the safety features that Volvo builds into its cars, effective driver training is essential in the overall quest to reduce the number of road accidents, hence why we have developed the EPD program,” according to Robb Gravett, a former British Touring Car Champion and founder of Ultimate Car Control.
New Health & Safety legislation regulations have been put in place in the UK, obligating companies to develop policies that protect employees using their car for work purposes. Thus, there has been a steady increase in demand for driver training. But more often than not, says Robb, programs are developed to meet the basic requirements of the law, rather than focusing on the needs of individual drivers.
“To me, that simply wasn’t good enough – after all, this is people’s lives and their safety that we are talking about and I wanted to change the way driver training was provided. Today, EPD is the only fully legally compliant driver training program available, and it’s also the only program that licenses each individual driver,” he later added.
The course is split into two sessions. The first takes place in a classroom, covering topics like hazard perception, the effects of drugs and alcohol on drivers, as well as finding out how vehicle safety systems such as anti-lock brakes actually work. The second part is dynamic driver training, where participants learn how a car behaves in extreme situations and what a driver can do to keep control.
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