
Asia-Pacific's leading driver education provider
Safe Drive Training offers a range of driver education products and training programs to private participants, education institutions, multinational companies (with global Health and Safety policies), local industry, police and government departments.
Over 8000 drivers complete Safe Drive Training programs annually across the Asia-Pacific region. We have trained over 35,000 drivers since 1996 (importantly more than 27,500 novice drivers have benefited from our safe driving programs).
International Experience, Local Knowledge
Whilst a car is a car and the same principles of car control apply universally across the Globe, every country has unique road rules, vehicles, road conditions, licensing standards and weather which combine to create different driver behaviour.
With our Head Office in Brisbane ( Australia ), Safe Drive Training is exposed to international best practice regarding road safety and driver education techniques in a country with a highly developed road safety industry. However by developing strategic partnerships and regional offices in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta and Mumbai, Safe Drive Training can deliver training more economically with local instructors (in local languages) and address the local driving culture, all backed by worlds-best-practice standards and resources.
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Safe Drive Training regularly conducts driver training projects across Australia, Malaysia, Indonesia, India and Singapore.
Training has also been delivered in Russia, Japan, Vietnam, China, Bangladesh, Egypt, Thailand and the Philippines .
This international experience allows Safe Drive Training to tailor our training programs to suit the specific conditions and unique problems encountered in each country. |
Training programs that meet worlds best-practice techniques and training methodology.
Safe Drive Training delivers PowerPoint based training packages to ensure a consistent standard of course content, regardless of the instructor. Training programs include a mixture of lecture, demonstration, practical experience and assessment.
Car Control programs adopt skill-failure experience methodology to show participants the limit of their vehicle and driving skills. In addition right-way, wrong-way training is used to break habitual driving behaviors. For some programs DriveCam in-vehicle monitoring systems can be used to provide participants with additional feedback.
A member of peak industry bodies
Safe Drive Training (Aust) Pty Ltd is a member of Australian Driver Trainers Association and the Road Safety Educators Association. Our Managing Director is a member of the Australian College of Road Safety and has presented papers on driver education at conferences across the Asia-Pacific region.
In partnership with other leading training providers
Safe Drive Training (Aust) Pty Ltd has entered into strategic partnerships with the following international driving schools:
- School of Advanced Motoring Principles (SAMP) based in Malaysia
- Driver Training International (DTI) based in Singapore
- Indonesia Defensive Driving Center (IDDC) based in Jakarta

This provides SDT with access to professional advanced driving instructors across Asia, who have unique local knowledge and the ability to deliver training programs and events in a range of languages. In fact we can supply instructors fluent in the following languages: English, Japanese, Chinese (Mandarin), Bahasa Indonesian (including some regional dialects), Malay, Thai, French, German, Hindi, Slovenian.
In Australia, training links also exist with the Drive Safe Australia National Network, Ian Luff Motivation Australia (Sydney), John Bowe Institute of Driving (Melbourne), Marlin Coast Professional Driving School (Cairns) and John Fraser Fleet Consultancy (Brisbane) Supported by companies dedicated to improving road safety
For 2008, Safe Drive Training (Aust) Pty Ltd is proudly supported by:

Unique training resources are available
Safe Drive Training has produced a range of driver training handbooks, videos, PowerPoint Presentations and written tests for use by High Schools, Driving Schools and Parents.
Our Safe Driving Video (and DVD) is used by 1250 High Schools throughout Australia and New Zealand . Many companies use this video to build-on the training provided. A modified version of our video is also used by the highly acclaimed NRMA as part of their Safe Driving Programs. In 1999, Safe Drive Training sent a free copy of our Safe Driving educational Handbook to every High School and Driving School in Australia and New Zealand .
Safe Drive Training is the Exclusive Asia-Pacific distributor for Fatal Vision Alcohol and Drug Simulation Goggles and training resources. We are also a distributor for Bushnell Speedster Radar Guns and other driver education materials.
Safe Drive Training is one of the only driving schools in the Asia-Pacific region to own a state-of-the-art driving simulator.
 Our people
We employ good communicators rather than just skilled race drivers.
Our instructors are accredited and highly experienced driver training instructors who are committed to developing safe drivers (all senior instructors are First-aid qualified)
Training Highlights
- Safe Drive Training instructors were part of the team of Drive Safe Australia instructors that provided the driver training for the 1995 Adelaide F1 Grand Prix Celebrity Race.
- Safe Drive Training were appointed by IMG and Ateco Automotive (Suzuki distributors) to conduct the Celebrity Driver Training for the 1996 Gold Coast Indy Car Grand Prix. This event remains as the only Celebrity Race held in Australia were no vehicles were damaged during the training or the actual race (even with the challenging street-circuit layout on the Gold Coast)
- SDT Instructors worked for the Porsche Driving Experience Training Program, at the Mt. Cotton Training Centre (1997),
- Team Leaders for the 1999 Proton World Tour (Cairns-Melbourne-Sydney) - the Australian media launch of Satria GTI
- Appointed by Yokohama Tyres to conduct the Asia-Pacific Media Launch for the A539 Tyre (2001), at Darlington Park Raceway (Gold Coast, Australia)
- Awarded Highly Commended in the 2001 Queensland Road Safety Awards for our High School Driver Training Program. Awarded Highly Commended in the 2005 Queensland Road Safety Awards for our Physics in Motion Science Program.
- Appointed by BF Goodrich to conduct the media launch for the g-force Sport Tyre ( Brisbane , 2003) the "Got What it Takes" g-Force Sport Launch at Queensland Raceway and the Mt. Cotton Training Centre remains the largest tire launch ever conducted in the Asia-Pacific region
- Appointed by Michelin to conduct the launch of the Pilot Sport Tyre at the Sepang F1 Circuit (Malaysia 2004)
- Appointed as the training managers for the 2004 Asian Motorsports Festival. Asian Motorsports Festival Launch at BRC Circuit, Bangkok (ACI Conferences) and the JDM Track Day and Supercar Sunday at Sepang F1 Circuit , Malaysia (AMF/ACI Conferences)
- Appointed by GTRadial Tyres to conduct Ride and Drive Programs across Australia
- Appointed by Mercedes Benz to conduct Ride and Drive Programs for the S-350 model during 2006/07 (conducted in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenyang, Hangzhou, Dalian)
- Appointed to run the X-box 360/FHM Forza Motorsports 2 Drift School (Tokachi International Speedway, Japan)
- Appointed to conduct the media launch for the "Conti-Sport Contact 3" at Eastern Creek Raceway (Sydney, 2007) for Tyres 4U
Where it all started
In 1990, Graham Neilsen and his friend Bob Townsend started Safe Drive Training (part-time operation) as an offshoot of their motorsport activities. In 1995, Graham's son (Joel) joined the company as a trainee instructor. In 1996, operations became fulltime and our High School training program started (then known as the Quest Safe Drive 1000). In 2001, Joel and his wife Kylie purchased Safe Drive Training from Graham and Bob. From these humble beginnings Safe Drive Training has developed to become the leader in the field of driver education and training in the Asia-Pacific region.
Safe Drive Training's aim is to improve the road safety and driver education of all road users. |