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Driver CPC - Your Health Matters

This course is aimed at professional drivers of goods vehicles and is designed to promote driver health and wellbeing via interactive workshop sessions that focus on a typical driver's daily routine. It includes advice and guidance to reduce work-related road risk and motivate behaviour changes in relation to general health and wellbeing.

Benefits of attending

• Understand the driving and legal requirements in relation to work related road safety.
• Recognising fatigue and sleep apnoea and explain how it affects your health.
• Gain the knowledge to make informed choices about your own lifestyle, diet and wellbeing.
• Learn about drugs and alcohol and how this can affect fitness for work.
• Promote positive lifestyle attitude through reflection, critique and company policy to improve general health and wellbeing.

Course content

• DVLA medical standards.
• Driver shift patterns.
• Sleep drive and your body clock:
  - Circadian rhythm and biological clocks.
• Diet and driving:
  - The makings of a healthy diet.
  - Why do we eat.
  - What we eat and nutrition myths.
• An awareness of mental health and wellbeing.
• Symptoms of stress, fatigue and sleep apnoea.
• Driving at night – the risks and night blindness.

Course ID: DRIVERkEOe