Curriculum for Emergency Responders

Course 1: The TRAined Driving System for Emergency Responders – This comprehensive 4-hour classroom course teaches refresher and supplemental defensive and evasive driving strategies for emergency responders.

• 1st hour – Essential concepts of defensive driving.
• 2nd hour – What to do when defensive driving fails. What evasive strategies are the best from both personal and professional standpoint? The pros and cons of emergency response.
• 3rd hour – Explains these techniques from a mathematical perspective to support the previously described concepts. Applications to your vehicles.
• 4th hour – Various case studies are intermingled throughout the class. Reviewing common and unusual crashes to assist in preventing crashes in the future.

Course 2: Sim Training for Emergency Responders – This class is a 1- hour or 2-hour computer–generated scenario training session that deals with perception-reaction events, steering and braking drills, under both normal and abnormal driving situations. The training is designed to reinforce concepts involving correct, defensible decisions and proper evasive tactics. Emergency response scenarios are utilized for emergency responders, up to and including pursuit situations when appropriate or requested.

Course 3: Closed Course, Fleet Assessment and Evaluation – This class is a 2 to 4-hour course designed to assist the student with real driving strategies. Evasive and anticipatory steering, swerving verses braking tactics, perception/reaction timed events, time/feet saved via covering the brake pedal, assessment of braking and/or stopping abilities of vehicles using scientific accelerometers.