EGO Driver Training

Ankara Metropolitan Municipality EGO General Directorate continues its in-service vocational trainings, which are regularly given each year in order to keep drivers' professional qualifications at the highest level.

In trainings given to EGO drivers; basic occupational health and safety measures, basic concepts related to traffic, factors affecting the safe driving and how the solutions will be discussed by experts.

At the Metropolitan Municipality Conference Hall, the trainings are carried out in groups of close to one thousand people.

-HER YEAR REGULAR EDUCATION-

Officials of the EGO General Directorate Bus Operation Department stated that every year regular trainings are given to the drivers who are responsible for the public transport in the capital between the 700 and the 750 thousand every day to increase their professional qualifications and equipment.

Authorities noted that drivers who had undergone several rigorous tests before training, were subjected to trainings that would increase their professional qualifications, and the drivers, who were still working with the beginners, were trained by the experts; they gave theoretical and practical training, including safe driving, the use of bellows buses and technical information about buses. Authorities underlined that all drivers must attend the trainings.

- WORK SAFETY AND TRAFFIC RULES

EGO drivers who spend most of their days in traffic, Gazi University Automotive Engineering Department Assoc. By Mesut Düzgün; Inin The basic principles of safe driving techniques, careful driving, weather and road conditions, uncontrolled factors on road and environment, vehicle safety systems and their use, traffic follow-up and stopping distances, the importance of the use of seat belts “are given.

In the in-service training organized by the General Directorate of EGO, drivers are also informed extensively on “Occupational Health and Safety eğitim issues. The training provided by Didem Taylan, the Occupational Health and Safety Specialist of BELKA, provides an overview of the occupational health and safety measures, emergency and plans and teams, occupational health and the hazards of talking with mobile phones while driving.