Course Content
The Police Service - Highway Patrol
This segment of the program aims to: Increase awareness of the major factors associated with road crashes. This section will examine the involvement of groups of particular drivers. Those groups may include young, drunk, speeding or dangerous drivers.
The program will also look into the effects of traffic fines, cancellations and disqualification's of licences. It will also look at damage to property, injury and death caused by drivers.
It will also show the young drivers the many hazards likely to be encountered because of inexperience or ignorance of the road rules.
The aim of this session is to educate young drivers in the skills required to drive defensively and to emphasize those techniques. Discussion will center on the responsibilities, courtesy and common sense required to achieve that style of driving.
Legal System - A Local Solicitor
In this section the more serious offences will be highlighted. The consequences of those offences will be explained, as will the more basic offences under the traffic act.
There will also be a brief discussion on the laws in relation to drugs, particularly sentencing, pointing out that the courts simply view drugs as illegal and punish people caught in possession of them. It will emphasize that Courts do not enter into moral arguments about drugs.
The session will outline your basic legal responsibilities as a driver and your rights in court and will also outline the consequences of ignoring the law.
Awareness & Prevention of Spinal Cord Injury - Spinesafe
What are your chances of death or serious injury? Every year hundreds of Australians, mainly young people, become casualties, paralysed as a result of spinal cord injury. Many of them had accidents which could have been prevented.
Have you ever thought about spending the rest of your life in a wheelchair? Every day you make choices, those choices may change your life in ways you cannot now imagine.
The disabled lecturer doesn't have to imagine, they know what it is like to live with permanent spinal cord injury through motor vehicle accident.
Insurance Cover - NRMA &
Motor Mechanics - NRMA
NRMA staff from local offices will explain the different types of car insurance available. They will also explain the features of cover types of each insurance package. They will also discuss exclusions to insurance cover when alcohol offences are involved.
NRMA staff from the NRMA Technical Unit will explain the need for a safe motor vehicle and how people place themselves at risk by ignoring basic maintenance. The session will also look into the safety features of modern vehicles.
Substance Abuse (alcohol and other drugs) - D & A Lecturer
The aim of this session is to bring home to the participants the dangers for them and others of the drink or drug affected driver. The lecture will also look at the effects of drugs and alcohol on your body and mind.
It will also look at the social and economic cost to you and the community of drug and alcohol use.
We will also see how different substances affect the central nervous system, the classification of drugs and the responsible use of drugs and alcohol.
Defensive Driving - RTA
Defensive driving is driving in a safe way regardless of the actions of other road users or unfavorable conditions.
The Defensive Driving session is designed to help participants develop a driving plan aimed at meeting every potentially dangerous situation that is likely to occur on the roads.
Ambulance - Ambulance Officers
The idea is to give you an overview of the Ambulance Service of NSW and where it fits into society in order to reduce the chance that you may need to call us.
Course content:
Your Ambulance Service - it's role, function, history, funding, and fleet size.
Personnel - selection, training, specialists and courses.
Helping others - Types of calls, how you can make the scene safe, hazards, what to do, preventing further injury and sustaining life.
Film - Combating death on the street.
Drugs and Alcohol - problems, people, society, driving common drugs and their effect on you.
Why are you here - driving and society, road rules, road toll, costs to the community.
Surviving the road - why accidents happen, affects of speed, effects on you, what are your chances, avoiding becoming a statistic.
Sentencing Options and Victims of Traffic Accidents - VISTA
VISTA (Vehicle Incident Support Team Australasia plus Education) is a support group that is seeking better approaches to dealing with the processes that are triggered by road tragedy.
Why? Each year we loose hundreds of people we love and there are many thousands injured. These tragedies cause indescribable emotional and physical pain. Grief from the loss of a loved one and the trauma from a road incident affects us all in different ways.
VISTA's aims include: encouraging emotional support at individual, group and community levels; and to assist in the creation of educational programs and initiatives to raise community awareness of the responsibilities and accountabilities of all road users.
