CarriersEdge Adds Courses on Mental Health, Personal Security
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CarriersEdge expanded its training library by adding two new courses on mental health and personal security for truck drivers, the company announced Feb. 9.
The Newmarket, Ontario-based truck driver training provider said that many of the top carriers already have programs in place that address mental health and personal security. Because of that, it recognized the need for formal online training courses on those topics.
“A driver’s mental state and sense of safety can significantly impact their well-being and productivity out on the road, which is why we wanted to add these courses to the CarriersEdge library,” CEO Jane Jazrawy said. “Both issues are increasingly important for drivers but often ignored because they can be difficult conversations to have.”
Jazrawy
The mental health course is designed to increase awareness and provide drivers with solutions to improve their well-being on the road. The course aims to teach drivers how to explain the difference between good mental health and mental illness, list the challenges that commonly affect professional drivers, describe how lifestyle choices can affect mental health and list methods to support good mental health on the road.
The personal security course is designed to help drivers increase their awareness of threats and provide information on what to do if drivers find themselves in dangerous situations.
The course aims to teach drivers how to recognize various situations that pose a threat to their security, describe methods thieves can use to target their load, explain why cargo theft is difficult to prevent, explain how to protect themselves at each stage of the delivery process, describe how to de-escalate potentially threatening situations and explain when they should use self-defense.
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