All assessments have been scientifically validated through over 10 years of research conducted at Nottingham Trent University and are supported by over 12 peer reviewed journal articles. We therefore have the evidence to show that by providing your drivers with our assessments, you can identify those drivers who are more at risk of a collision. Our proactive and innovative approach can contribute towards improving your fleets safety and can save you money on the bottom line.

At Esitu Solutions, our research has shown that an assessment should reflect both the vehicle and job of the driver. We have a range of assessments filmed from different vehicles, e.g., cars, buses, vans, HGVs and even emergency response vehicles. By tailoring the assessment to your drivers, we guarantee that the content in the assessments will better reflect the type of hazards and risky situations encountered by your drivers, providing a more accurate assessment of their driver skill.

Our online assessments cover several key driver safety metrics:

• Hazard Awareness skill: Research dating back to the 70’s has shown that hazard perception skill is one of the only higher-order cognitive skills consistently linked to driver collision risk. We have developed an alternative test to the current DVSA test, known as the Hazard Prediction test. This test uses a simple and transparent scoring method that overcomes known issues with the more traditional test. We even have the evidence to show that the prediction test is a better predictor of professional driver safety (Crundall & Kroll, 2019). By completing our video-based hazard tests, we can identify which of your drivers are more at risk of a collision.
• Risk-Taking Propensity: Standard online profilers often use question-based surveys to create driver risk profiles. Unfortunately, these profilers can contain questions where there is a very clear socially desirable answer. In our assessments, the ‘correct’ answer is often not clear cut, and it is drivers’ responses to these clips that reveal their true intent to take risks. We offer a variety of innovative video-based tests that target different driver competencies, from drivers’ willingness to take risks to their ability to make the correct driving decision in a time-sensitive driving scenario.
• Blue-Light Driving: Emergency responders have a significantly greater occupational fatality rate than the general public, with traffic collisions playing a major part in this discrepancy. We have a range of tests filmed from different response vehicles on blue-lights that tap into several key aspects of blue-light driving, e.g., observation, hazard awareness, gap judgement, and critical decision making.

You can choose to assess these metrics in standalone assessments, or we can work with you to create a package that allows drivers to be assessed on a combination of driver safety metrics.

All of our online assessments can be accessed via our bespoke online driver profiling system, EsituDrive, which following completion of each assessment, uses scientific data to provide an overall driver risk rating of High, Medium, or Low. If an assessment combines several driver safety metrics, drivers will receive a risk score for each metric. These ratings can be used to identify training needs for more targeted training.