02/05/2021
Our 8th Blog...Timely and Appropriate Verbal and Physical Intervention...
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🥇Meet The Standards TOP TIPS🥇 🚦No.8
▪️SC/Part 3 Risk Management
✅Was Any Verbal or Physical Intervention Timely and Appropriate✅
⛔️ The Hermes Project (2007-2010) states:-
If the learner feels the instructor is in control of the training, he will be encouraged to take a passive role in the training process. This feeling implies a hierarchy, with the instructor as ‘boss’ and the learner as obedient servant. Such a hierarchy can also create anxiety in the learner because he feels he is constantly being judged. This anxiety can lead to defensiveness and other forms of resistance to learning. If the instructor presents himself as an equal, and someone with whom the training can be tackled in partnership, the learner is likely to be more relaxed and more inclined to share his concerns and views with the instructor, This transition from a hierarchy to an equal relationship is recognised to be an important challenge for the HERMES project. Both are of the same value although the competencies of the coach and the coachee will vary. The attraction of telling (i.e. imposing a hierarchy) is that, besides being quick and easy, it provides the instructor with the feeling of being in control. And being in control can be one of the most attractive aspects of the role of a driving instructor.
In order to adopt a post-test approach that our clients benefit from as a driver in their own world we must allow them as much responsibility as they are capable of managing, keeping them in control and allow them to reflect on their performance.
⭐️ When considering how to deliver timely and appropriate interventions, the amount of time you have from recognising the developing hazard to dealing with the hazard, will determine how much responsibility you can allow the pupil, within their capabilities. The more time you have to support your pupil, the more responsibility you can give them, again within their capabilities to manage risk. The less time you have the more appropriate it might be for you to take more responsibility for risk by way of guided instruction or by way of physical intervention.
Generally speaking when dealing with potentially safety critical situations it is important to consider both the goal of the session and the area of risk. If the pupil is dealing with the risk appropriately and the risk situation is not relevant to the learning goal, then the most appropriate intervention would be for you to remain silent, allowing the pupil the responsibility for their actions and the focus to control the physical act of controlling the vehicle. Any diversion of their focus would be inappropriate in the moment since it could distract the learner from the task and the risk
⭐️ Physical intervention, generally speaking, should be used as a last resort. If the pupil has failed to respond to leading questions and command questions, or to the agreed level of support you have provided, and the situation is now one where it is unsafe to continue in this course, you must intervene by way of taking physical control over the safety of the vehicle, using the most appropriate method. Where possible gently steering away from the danger or if necessary by using dual controls.
Physical intervention should, generally, only be used as a first resort to manage risk, where the situation doesn’t allow time for any verbal intervention. For example the car rolling back on a hill, with vehicles close behind, or a situation where an immediate impact has to be avoided, which couldn’t have been anticipated in advance.
▪️ The DVSA ADI 1 States:-
Clearly the most important ‘interventions’ are those that manage risk in a moving car. We would expect an ADI to point out situations in which a risk or hazard might arise to their pupil. However direct intervention by the ADI, to prevent a situation escalating, may be needed. This criterion is primarily about the ADI’s response in those situations.
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