*Advise for all the Driving Instructors*
To continue to operate your business as safely as possible and to continue to provide services to your pupils and customers, our guidance is that you:
Call your pupils ahead of each lesson (even if you have seen them within the last couple of days).
Ask them if they have any symptoms.
Ask them if anyone they know, or have been in contact with, is showing symptoms.
Ask them if they, or if anyone they have been in contact with, has travelled from a high-risk, infectious region.
If a parent or anyone else comes along on the lesson, you will need to go through this with them too (or jointly).
Explain to them that you need to take a few extra precautionary measures during their lesson to keep them, and everyone safe.
Ask them:
To wash their hands or use sanitiser gel just prior to getting into the car.
To cover their mouth and nose when coughing or sneezing – so a sleeve or tissue, not their hands.
Tell them:
You’ll keep a window open for ventilation.
You also have some other housekeeping to do in order to help protect yourself and your client:
Before the client enters the vehicle, ensure that you have wiped over the following contact points:
Door handles (inside and out), window controls, seat adjusters, steering wheel and steering wheel height adjuster, parking brake, gear lever, indicator and wiper stalks and light controls with alcohol-based gel at the beginning and end of each training session. This would be good practise.
If you are unable to get the alcohol gel, then a bottle containing disinfectant, mixed with antibacterial soap and water and wiped over with kitchen paper and then dried with a separate sheet of kitchen paper would do. Ensure to discard the paper in the bin each time.
Your terms and conditions may have to be amended. Make an agreement with the student that although they would like to continue as normal, the Coronavirus status may inhibit the progress of training. This is an unprecedented situation that is well out of your control.
Avoid receiving cash payments, Ask your customers to pay via bank transfer, paypal or debit/credit card. Please let us know if your website has not online payment feature. We will add it free to your website.