Archives
This section is simply a repository for presentations given at various AIRSO organised conferences or seminars in the relatively recent past. The conferences include National Blue Light Users' conferences, St John Conferences, Road Safety WALES, and other regional or partnered events.
You can view the presentations and download any of the pdf files to your computer.
National Blue Light Users' Conferences
2009 Conference Speakers
- Vijith Randeniya: Opening Address (pdf version)
- Gareth Morgan: Driving Simulation by Design (pdf version)
- Owen Lower MAIRSO: Training in the Dark (pdf version)
- Tony Guinness & Rick Wood: St John Ambulance Approach to Driver Training (pdf version)
- Jeremy Moore: High Speed Driving Course (pdf version)
- Stuart Gemmell: Insurers Input & Support – Fleet Risk Management for Emergency Service Fleets (pdf versions)
- Kevin Day MAIRSO & Mark Cross MAIRSO: Reducing Slow Speed Collisions (pdf version)
- Tom Baker MAIRSO: Vehicle Familiarisation & Red Traffic Lights
- Dr Carina Fourie: Fatigue Management (pdf version)
- Beccy Mullins: Sleep Apnoea (pdf version)
- Edward Handley FAIRSO: Driving Licences (pdf version)
- Mick Trosh MAIRSO: One Box Concept (pdf version)
- David Faithful MAIRSO: The Risk & Consequences of Prosecution (pdf version)
- Peter Rodger FAIRSO: Driving Under Exemptions (pdf version)
2008 Conference Speakers
- Howard Robinson: Opening Address(pdf version)
- Trevor Wedge: CPD for Driver Trainers; CPC for Vocational Drivers (pdf version)
- Mark Bayley: What makes for effective learning & Teaching? "Strategies, Solutions and Alternatives to consider" (pdf version - 13.5MB)
- Alan Scorer: Vehicle Operators Services Agency’s Interface with Emergency & other Services (pdf version)
- David Faithful: On the Legal Front (pdf version)
- Juergen Pfaffenzeller: "Simulation of Emergency Service Driving" - A training-conception of the Bavarian Police (pdf version available soon)
- Gary Austin : Hazard Perception in Emergency Service Driving (pdf version)
- Jon Godfrey: Red Mist Driving & Dynamic Risk Assessment (pdf version)
- Jon Porter: The Training and Management of Drivers within South Coast Ambulance Service (pdf version)
- Dr Cris Burgess: What we wear affects how we drive! (pdf version)
- Brian Draper: Changing driver behaviour and improving fuel economy (pdf version)
- Paul Bowles: Motorcycle Training in the Emergency Services (pdf version)
- Robert Ward: Driver Training in the Police Service (pdf version)
- Frank Johnstone: Driver Training in the Fire Service (pdf version)
2007 Conference
- David Webb: opening address(pdf version)
- Adrian Walsh: Vehicle Technology and Design (pdf version)
- Duncan Vernon: Coping with new technologies from a driver and training perspective (pdf version)
- David Faithful: Your responsibilities and liabilities (pdf version)
- Carol Grainger: Managing workplace transport risk (pdf version)
- VOSA representative: Driving Hours Regulations and the implications for the Emergency Services (pdf version)
- Ten Years on in Driver Training: Owen Lower (pdf version); Kevin Dell (pdf version); Richard Paskell (pdf version)
- Dr Paul Jackson: Fatigue/Shift Pattern working & its implications (pdf version)
- Andy Kirk: Active Traffic Management Systems – what it means for the Emergency Services (pdf version)
- Dr Jo Barnes: Quality of Life outcomes for road crash victims (pdf version)
- Paul Sturgeon: Managing driver risk – lessons from the commercial sector (pdf version)
- Robert Smalley: The Road Safety Act 2006 and the implications for Emergency Services Drivers (pdf version)
2006 Conference
- Maria Docking: IPCC Research into police related road traffic incidents (pdf version)
- Richard Priestman: Driver Behaviour in the Ambulance Service (pdf version)
- David Gibson: Strathclyde Fire and Rescue Emergency Response Driver Training Programme: "Driving Into The Future" (pdf version)
- Dr Lisa Dorn:Human Aspects of Emergency Driving (pdf version)
- Kevin Day: Emergency Fire Appliance Driver Risk Index (pdf version)
- David Faithful: The world of legality (pdf version)
- Dr David Dawson: Sleeping on the Job - How safe is your workforce? (pdf version)
- Jeff Pickering: The Road Safety Bill 2006 (pdf version)
- Peter Rodger: The Road Safety Bill 2006 (pdf version)
2005 Conference
- David Faithful: Corporate Responsibilities and Outcomes (pdf version)
- Andrew Morris and Lucy Rackliff: Unrestrained occupants: an ambulance service case study (pdf version)
- George Smith and Ron Parry: Emergency Response Driving Instructors (pdf version)
- Peter Roger, Metropolitan Police Driving School: The Implications of the Road Safety Bill (pdf version)
- Peter Howells OBE: Mountain Rescue Myths & Reality (pdf version)
- David Crundall: Visual search in hazardous driving situations: The relevance of visual skills for blue-light users (pdf version)
- George Smith and Ron Parry: Innovative development in driver instructor standardisation (pdf version)
