Health & Safety for Commercial Drivers (Lorry/Bus)

Event Date:

07/07/2025

04/08/2025

08/09/2025

Event Location:

Transport Training Services, 15 Dundrod Road, Crumlin, Co Antrim BT29 4SS

Course Description

Explain the scope of Health & Safety legislation and duty of care including the legal obligations of employers and drivers.
Emphasise PPE requirements and their necessity in the workplace.
Describe how to complete risk assessments, be hazard aware and the dangers associated with lone workers.
Promote driver health, safety and wellbeing and its impact on drivers.
Review accident statistics including slips, trips and falls whilst loading and unloading vehicles. (tippers/tail lifts etc).
Observe manual handling guidelines and hazards associated with maintenance facilities.
Explain the pitfalls relating to reversing vehicles (banksman / reversing assistant instructions).
Promote COSHH awareness and associated environmental risks such as the prevention of waste and minimising the environmental impact.

Subject Areas

  • Customer Service
  • Health, Safety & Emergencies
  • Industry Enviro. Carriage of Dangerous Goods
  • Industry Environment Carriage of Passengers
  • Loading/Unloading
  • Personal Health & Wellbeing

Course Cancellation: No refund will be made for any candidate who fails to attend or does not complete the course. Cancellations or changes must be made within a specified timeframe before the course date, otherwise full fees will be charged and no refund will be made. The cancellation policy for this course is 5 working days prior to the course start date.

 

Course Dates

14/04/2025 (8:45am – 5:00pm)

19/05/2025 (8:45am – 5:00pm)

09/06/2025 (8:45am – 5:00pm)

07/07/2025 (8:45am – 5:00pm)

04/08/2025 (8:45am – 5:00pm)

08/09/2025 (8:45am – 5:00pm)

 

Bus/Lorry Course Fees

Course Fee – £45.00
Course VAT – £9.00
Registration Fee – £8.75
TOTAL – £62.75

Requirements for Booking

  • It is the driver’s responsibility to monitor their own total of completed hours. If you are unsure of your total, you can find out how much lorry or bus periodic training you’ve already carried out by using the Online Driver Enquiry (ODE) service at the link here.  You need to register to use the service and you need to enter your driver licence number and password to sign in.
  • Course participants must make sure that their Driver CPC training covers a range of subjects.  Drivers are no longer permitted to complete the same driver training module more than once in any five-year period. 
  • Attendees should not have completed this module within the last 5 years. 
  • Attendees must have acquired rights (see explanation in FAQ section below) or already hold a Driver Qualification Card (DQC).

By making this booking, you confirm that the above applies to the course participant(s).

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Event FAQs

What does “Acquired Rights” Mean?

If you have never held a Driver CPC and have acquired rights or your Driver CPC expired before 1 February 2020, you can carry out 35 hours of periodic CPC training to get your Driver CPC.  


“Acquired rights” (or “grandfather rights”) will apply to you if you held a full vocational licence to drive buses, coaches and lorries on the Driver CPC start date.


However, if you have a licence issued before January 1997 which has a D1 (not for hire or reward [nfhr]), D (nfhr) or 079 code, it does not qualify as acquired rights. You also do not have any provisional entitlement.


You’ll have acquired rights if you are a:


Lorry driver and got your vocational licence (C, C1, C+E and C1+E) before 10 September 2009


Bus or coach driver and got your vocational licence (D, D1, D+E and D1+E) before 10 September 2008 - this includes a restricted vocational licence D (079/ nfhr) issued after 1991 and D1 (nfhr/ 079) issued before 1997

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