Services
LIGHT 4WD TRAINING
Our 4WD courses equip trainees with the knowledge and skills to drive a 4WD effectively and safely over varied terrain as would be required in most off road workplaces under the full ‘best practice’ guidelines.
Our courses have an emphasis on accident prevention and driving techniques that minimise negative impact upon the environment.
Courses are 1-3 days in duration, include a combination of theory and practical elements and can be Unit Standard or Competency-based, depending on your requirements.
Our courses can cover all of the following:
- Preparing a vehicle for use Off-Road and Post Off-Road Checks
- Safety requirements
- Operating a 4WD vehicle in an off-road situation
- Driver ability and awareness and passenger safety
- Vehicle designs and operating systems including current vehicle technology
- Stability dynamics
- Explain driving hazards and risk reduction strategies, techniques and responses to driving hazards
- Hazard identification and safety assessment specific to terrain
- Terrain formation and composition recognition including driving techniques
- Negotiating uneven terrain, hill ascents, descents, traverse driving, and related difficulties
- Recovery from a stall while climbing
- Water crossings
- Understanding vehicle movement utilising traction, momentum, gravity and centrifugal force combinations
- Recovery techniques and equipment winching and towing using ropes, strops and snatch
- Towing trailers both on and off-road including towing of loads
- Defensive driving and driver awareness
- Driving on unsealed roads
- Fit and remove vehicle chains
- Driving on snow
This course can be tailored to your specific training needs. Contact us for more information.
OFF-ROAD VEHICLE DEALERSHIP TRAINING PROGRAM
This comprehensive training program is specifically designed for Off-Road vehicle dealerships to provide their customers with the knowledge and skills necessary to safely and effectively operate their vehicles in various off-road environments. Designed for 4WD’s LUV’s and Quadbikes.
Program Overview
Our experienced instructors will guide your customers through a combination of theoretical and practical training, covering essential topics such as:
- Vehicle systems: understanding the unique features, modern technologies and capabilities of their specific brand of vehicle.
- Off-road driving techniques: learning how to safely and effectively navigate various off-road environments.
- Safety procedures: understanding how to prepare for and respond to off-road emergency loss of control situations.
Program Benefits
By participating in this training program, your customers will:
- Gain confidence in their ability to operate their 4WD vehicle in various off-road environments.
- Develop a deeper understanding of their vehicle’s capabilities and limitations.
- Learn essential skills for safe and effective off-road driving.
Why Offer This Program to Your Customers?
By offering this training program to your customers, you can:
- Enhance the overall ownership experience for your customers.
- Increase customer loyalty and retention
- Differentiate your dealership from competitors .
- Provide a unique and valuable service to your customers.
SIDE BY SIDES (LUV'S - LIGHT UTILITY VEHICLES)
Our LUV courses equip trainees with the knowledge and skills to drive an LUV effectively and safely over varied terrain, as would be required in most off road workplaces under the full ‘best practice’ guidelines.
Our courses have an emphasis on accident prevention and driving techniques that minimise negative impact upon the environment.
Courses are 1-2 days in duration, include a combination of theory and practical elements and can be Unit Standard or Competency-based, depending on your requirements.
Our courses can cover all of the following:
- Preparing a LUV for use Off-Road and Post Off-Road Checks
- Safety requirements
- Operating a LUV vehicle in an off-road situation
- Driver ability and awareness and passenger safety
- Vehicle designs mechanical characteristics and operating systems including current vehicle technology and vehicle drive line
- Stability dynamics
- Hazard identification and safety assessment specific to terrain
- Terrain formation and composition recognition including driving techniques
- Negotiating uneven terrain, hill ascents, descents, traverse driving, and related difficulties
- Water crossings
- Understanding vehicle movement utilising traction, momentum, gravity and centrifugal force combination
- Towing trailers both on and off-road including towing of loads
- LUV mounted equipment; sprayers etc
- Recovery techniques and equipment
This course can be tailored to your specific training needs. Contact us for more information.
QUAD BIKE TRAINING
Our Quad Bike courses equip trainees with the knowledge and skills to ride a Quad Bike effectively and safely over varied terrain, as would be required in most off road workplaces under the full ‘best practice’ guidelines.
Our courses have an emphasis on accident prevention and driving techniques that minimise negative impact upon the environment.
Courses are 1-2 days in duration and include a combination of theory and practical elements. These courses can be Unit Standard or Competency-based depending on your requirements.
Our courses can cover all of the following:
- Preparing a Quad for use
- Health and Safety requirements
- Riding on flat ground and low friction surfaces
- Ground composition and recognition and what driving techniques to employ with them
- Negotiating uneven terrain
- Stability dynamics
- Ascents and Descents and correct practices – Walking a bike of a hill
- Side sloping
- Towing trailers both on and off-road including towing of loads
- Loading and unloading from a trailer
- Quad mounted equipment; sprayers etc
- Recovery techniques and equipment
This course can be tailored to your specific training needs. Contact us for more information!
TRACTOR & IMPLEMENT
Course: Tractor, Implement, and PTO Attachment Operation and Safety
Course Overview:
This comprehensive course is designed to equip participants with the knowledge, skills and best practices necessary to safely and effectively operate tractors, implements and PTO attachments. Our experienced instructors will guide you through a combination of theoretical and practical training, covering essential topics such as tractor safety, implement operation, PTO attachment operation, and maintenance.
Course Objectives:
- Understand the safe operation and maintenance of tractors, implements and PTO attachments.
- Identify and explain the different types of tractors, implements and PTO attachments.
- Develop skills in operating tractors, implements and PTO attachments in a safe and efficient manner.
- Understand the importance of pre-operational checks and maintenance.
- Learn how to troubleshoot common issues with tractors, implements and PTO attachments.
Course Outline:
Tractor Safety
- Introduction to tractor safety
- Hazard identification and risk management
- Safe operating practices
- Emergency procedures
Tractor Operation
- Introduction to tractor controls and instruments
- Starting and stopping procedures
- Basic vehicle control
- Operating on slopes and uneven terrain
Implement and PTO Operation
- Introduction to different types of implements and PTO attachments
- Safe operation and maintenance practices
- Troubleshooting common issues
- PTO shaft safety and maintenance
VEHICLE RECOVERY TRAINING
Off-Road recovery is a shifting concourse; The goal is to instruct trainees in a logical learning sequence, to encourage on-going self-learning from a safe knowledge base.
We have endeavoured to acknowledge the huge variety of 4WD vehicles, and recovery gear available on the market.
This programme offers “practical ways” of dealing with common situations when recovering vehicles in off-road terrain and environment. All trainees will be expected to complete varying practical recovery rigging set ups and possibly recovery of vehicles.
The aim of this programme is to ensure an operator can demonstrate the knowledge, and abilities to apply the necessary elements for safe vehicle recovery in an off-road environment. Extending an awareness of situations as the develop around them, enhancing the individual to effectively rig and extract a vehicle safely off-road with the varied equipment supplied to them with full best practices guidelines. Trainees will also be able to demonstrate the appropriate responsibilities of a recovery situation with emphasis on hazard awareness, personal and vehicle harm prevention, order of thought, and recovery responsibility. The key message is to approach off-road recovery as a task that demands concentration, focus, care, and attention.
This course can be tailored to your specific training needs and company policies. Contact us for more information.
SAND DRIVING
Sand driving is a specialist topic in its own right and our sand driving training is likewise specialised.
If your staff drive on beaches or similar terrain, you need specific training!
This course builds upon basic off-road driver training and considers the different dynamics and variances that such terrain has. Time is also spent on identifying the hazards and safety margins needed when dealing with sand and tides to get the driver to think safely about limitations and environmental risks. This course also focuses on identifying the hazards and safety margins needed when dealing with sand and tides to get the driver to think safely about limitations and environmental risks.
Further details on what is covered in the course are discussed on a case-by-case basis depending on your specific occupational needs and limitations.
CHAIN FITTING
Fitting of tyre chains training covers the fitment of tyre chains to improve traction of vehicles.
Further details on what is covered in the course are discussed on a case-by-case basis depending on your specific needs and working environments. Contact us to discuss our various course options and how we can customise the training to be fit for purpose for your needs.
CONSULTANCY
Training Consultancy
We offer consultancy services in the following sectors:
- Road Transport / Freight
- Civil
- Rural / Off-Road
Services
We can prepare, evaluate, and implement training policies and programmes for an organisation, whether they use their own in-house trainers or prefer the services of external training providers.
We can help with:
- Analysis and identification of training needs within the business.
- Advice and guidance on the design and implementation of training plans.
- Advice and guidance on fleet vehicle set up, including running vehicle testing days on various manufacturer’s makes and models.
- Advise on development of internal training capability.
- Assessment and quality control of existing training systems.
- Full access to a custom training management system.
- Creation of training, coaching and mentoring policies.
- Advice on training course selections, training tools, etc.
- Creation of teaching materials.
- Analysis and evaluation of training plan results and proposing improvements.
Benefits
Get a Grip Training Ltd. are a team of transport and off-road training specialists. Using our wealth of skills and experience, we believe our services offer a range of benefits to both businesses and their employees.
Investment in quality training can result in:
- Increased safety and reduced risk of accidents and injuries to both your employees and the public
- Improved staff health and wellbeing
- Improved staff engagement and performance
- Improved competency in all areas
- Enhanced operational efficiencies
- Reduced maintenance costs
- Increased business profitability
- Improved retention throughout the company
ON-ROAD DRIVER AWARENESS
Most New Zealand drivers tend to take a casual approach to operating vehicles. Often drivers have little or no formal training which may be reflected in the way they drive.
Many drivers display a confidence that is often misplaced and can, of itself, lead to a potential crash situation.
The ability to recognise the conditions which may, or do, affect our driving is something that usually develops over a period. It is a combination of knowledge and personal experience, some of which is good, and some of which arises from actual crashes or near misses – in other words, we tend to learn from our mistakes.
This course focuses on raising awareness and equipping drivers with the ability to recognise conditions that may impact their driving, and covers best practice ways to handle these conditions.
This course can be tailored to your specific training needs. Contact us for more information.
ON-ROAD TRAILER AWARENESS
Many businesses require employees to tow trailers in order to do their job. An understanding of trailer design, braking systems, connection systems, loading and appreciation of the required adjustment to driving techniques is important for safe trailer towing.
We assume people can drive with a trailer if they have a class 1 car license, but very few people are taught the specifics. Many managers or workers don’t understand what is legal or how the dynamics of vehicle control can change with a trailer load.
We provide a practical training solution to ensure staff safety within the bounds of best practise. We simplify this for you and make a practical difference.
The trailer training course is designed to produce a worker that is competent to look after your trailer and can safely operate them for work purposes. The course takes key practical and safety elements out of the various key NZQA courses and combines them into a single package. This provides a seamless training package that can be added to our other training courses and applied in safe learning environment.
Workers will be able to demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and attributes for all essential areas of the competency covered under the “Best Practice” guidelines for trailer use in the workplace.
This course is targeted specifically at the trailers you use at your workplace either on-road or off-road … or both!). This course enables the trainee to safely and legally operate a trailer over varied terrain. The trainee will also be able to demonstrate the appropriate responsibilities of a driver with emphasis on accident prevention. A high level of hazard identification and safe decision-making is also promoted as well as driving techniques that minimise negative environmental impact.
The course can be customised to incorporate your own workplace policies and procedures.
SAFE & FUEL EFFICIENT DRIVING
Safe and Fuel-Efficient Driving New Zealand (SAFED NZ) is a comprehensive one-day, off-the-job driver development course. It teaches safe and fuel-efficient driving techniques through a combination of theoretical and practical exercises. It is generally delivered on a two-one ratio (two drivers with one instructor). We Offer these courses for light fleet vehicles, heavy fleet vehicles and Bus and coach drivers
Get a Grip Training Ltd. can also conduct SAFED Instructor courses.
Applying safe and fuel-efficient driving techniques learnt through SAFED NZ can reduce fuel consumption by as much as 10 percent. Ongoing savings on repairs and maintenance are also achieved. This can make a big difference to the bottom line of your operation.
On completion of the course a certificate is issued by NZTA.
IN-HOUSE TRAIN THE TRAINER COURSE
Some companies prefer to have selected staff to complete their driver and critical plant machine operation training/assessing.
This course is structured to allow companies to have selected internal drivers and plant operators trained to conduct basic competency assessments and complete assessment reports.
The 1 to 2-day course (pending requirements) has both theory and practical elements and covers the skills of conducting training and assessment internally. We can assist with providing competency assessments based on your SOPs and the selection of staff if required.
This course can be tailored to your specific training needs. Contact us for more information.
IN-CAB ASSESSMENTS (Light and Heavy fleet Vehicles)
Pre-Employment Assessment
These assessments are critical to ensuring any prospective employee has the basic driving skills for the prospective role and to gauge their willingness to accept comments and recommendations.
We can structure the assessments based on the prospective role e.g. metro or linehaul
This service can also serve as a training needs analysis which can help identify systemic faults within your drivers.
Assessment time is 1 to 2 hours depending on the role and requirements needed. A written report is included.
Post Incident Assessment
Unfortunately, incidents do happen even if the driver is experienced. Incidents can come in many differing situations and the outcomes can be minor or severe. All incidents should be investigated to identify failings in both the company and/or the driver or, a third party.
These assessments can be completed on or off job with a minimum assessment time of 1 hour. A written report is included.
Heavy and Light Vehicle Driver Assessments
High standards of individual driving skills for fleet drivers are critical for companies to ensure their vehicles are being driven in a safe, compliant and profitable manner.
Maintaining and improving these skills must be an ongoing process and to this end, it is recommended that drivers undertake scheduled driving assessments. Where possible, it is recommended that these assessments are completed on-job. A written report is included.
LOAD RESTRAINT
All HMV drivers, operators or loaders must understand their legal responsibilities relating to loading and load security and have the practical skills and knowledge to plan the loading and securing of the load correctly.
The course duration is 4 hours and includes both theory and practical sessions.
The course can include Unit Standard 1753 (load and unload a general freight vehicle).
This course can be tailored to your specific training needs. Contact us for more information.
TRANSPORT LICENSING
We offer a range of licensing services from Class 2 to Class 5 Truck License.