Defensive Driving - Distracted Driving: Types of Distractions
Last Updated 02/2025
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What you'll learn
Participants will develop the ability to identify and recognize various distractions beyond phones, including visual, manual, and cognitive distractions. Learning objectives include understanding the different categories of distractions and their potential impact on driving safety.
Participants will learn effective strategies to prevent and mitigate distractions while driving, focusing on visual, manual, and cognitive aspects. Learning objectives encompass recognizing the significance of proactive prevention and adopting behaviors that enhance concentration and control behind the wheel.
Participants will gain skills in assessing the risks associated with different distractions and their potential consequences on driving reactions. Learning objectives include evaluating the severity of distractions and understanding how reaction time, vehicle speed, and external factors contribute to overall risk.
Skills covered in this course
Description
This course moves beyond the usual focus on phones to examine every kind of distraction that pulls attention from the road. It explains how visual, manual, and cognitive distractions each affect vehicle control.
What this course covers:
- Identifying visual, manual, and cognitive distractions
- How each type affects driving safety
- Assessing the risk different distractions create
- Strategies to prevent and mitigate distraction
Ideal for any driver who wants to recognize and reduce distraction.
System Requirements
See System Requirements in the Coggno Knowledge Base
Author
Safety Instruct provides OSHA Compliance and Workplace Safety training designed to keep employees safe and organizations compliant. Their catalog includes Hazard Communication, PPE, Fire Safety, and industry-specific courses that meet federal and state regulations. The training is interactive, accessible, and tailored for both employees and supervisors. Safety Instruct emphasizes practical, real-world learning that helps reduce workplace risks. Companies use these courses to strengthen safety programs and meet compliance requirements.
Defensive Driving - Distracted Driving: Types of Distractions
Frequently Asked Questions
The usual focus on phones, examining every kind of distraction that pulls attention from the road.
Visual, manual, and cognitive distractions and how each affects vehicle control.
Yes, it looks at assessing the risk different distractions create.
Strategies to prevent and mitigate distraction while driving.
Any driver who wants to recognize and reduce distraction.
This course is designed for employees who need to complete Defensive Driving - Distracted Driving: Types of Distractions training
Yes. This course is designed to meet applicable federal requirements and commonly mandated state standards. Always confirm specific state or industry requirements with your local regulations.
The course takes approximately 7 minutes to complete and can be paused and resumed at any time.
Yes. Learners receive a downloadable certificate upon successful completion, which can be used for compliance records and audits.
Yes. You can assign this course to individuals or groups using Coggno’s LMS, or purchase multiple seats for your team.
Yes. This course can be exported for delivery in most learning management systems (SCORM compatible).
Yes. The course is fully self-paced and available 24/7.
Yes. This course includes a knowledge check to reinforce learning and verify completion.
Learners have lifetime access from the date of purchase.
Yes. A preview is available so you can review the course format and content before purchasing.
Yes. Content is reviewed and updated as regulations and best practices change.
Yes. This course is available for free with an active Prime Subscription.
Yes. Refund requests can be submitted within 30 days of purchase.
This course delves beyond the common focus on phones and addresses various distractions that compromise driver attention. It explores visual, manual, and cognitive distractions, emphasizing their severe and potentially fatal consequences. The course aims to raise awareness about the different types of distractions and their impact on vehicle control, encouraging participants to recognize and prevent distractions for enhanced safety. Participants will develop the ability to identify and recognize various distractions beyond phones, including visual, manual, and cognitive distractions. Learning objectives include understanding the different categories of distractions and their potential impact on driving safety. Participants will learn effective strategies to prevent and mitigate distractions while driving, focusing on visual, manual, and cognitive aspects. Learning objectives encompass recognizing the significance of proactive prevention and adopting behaviors that enhance concentration and control behind the wheel. Participants will gain skills in assessing the risks associated with different distractions and their potential consequences on driving reactions. Learning objectives include evaluating the severity of distractions and understanding how reaction time, vehicle speed, and external factors contribute to overall risk.
Course Objectives:
Participants will develop the ability to identify and recognize various distractions beyond phones, including visual, manual, and cognitive distractions. Learning objectives include understanding the different categories of distractions and their potential impact on driving safety.;Participants will learn effective strategies to prevent and mitigate distractions while driving, focusing on visual, manual, and cognitive aspects. Learning objectives encompass recognizing the significance of proactive prevention and adopting behaviors that enhance concentration and control behind the wheel.;Participants will gain skills in assessing the risks associated with different distractions and their potential consequences on driving reactions. Learning objectives include evaluating the severity of distractions and understanding how reaction time, vehicle speed, and external factors contribute to overall risk.;;
Duration: 7 min.