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\nA delivery associate trainee successfully navigates a reverse slalom through pylons at the Amazon Last Mile Delivery Academy in Denver on Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023. The facility teaches drivers real world scenarios and focuses on safety. (Photo by Eric Lutzens\/The Denver Post)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
“Among Denver area delivery drivers who have completed the Last Mile Delivery Academy course, there was an average 10% improvement among safe and distraction-free driving rates, road incidents and dog incident rates in the first 16 days alone compared to the same quarter last year,” said Nissa LaPoint, an Amazon spokeswoman.<\/p>\n
But the biggest reduction has come in slip and fall accidents, which are down by 50% for drivers who complete the course, LaPoint said.<\/p>\n
The Slips, Trips and Falls Training simulator has a slick floor that mimics ice when sprayed down with a mixture of water and soap. Drivers attach a harness and walk across a dry course and then a slippery one. They are trained to take little steps and to look forward with their backs straight like in a marching band rather than hunching down to look at the slick surface.<\/p>\n
Once trainees are able to master walking the slick course empty-handed, they are given a package. Trainers will sometimes create distractions, and a curb and other obstacles can be added.<\/p>\n
Another taken-for-granted behavior involves getting in and out of the delivery vans, which can occur up to 100 times a day. An egress simulator shows the impact when a driver steps quickly out of a truck without grabbing a handrail.<\/p>\n
An exit that might generate 400 pounds of pressure on the legs can be reduced to 250 pounds by grabbing a handrail and creating a third point of contact, said Albert DiPasquale, a program manager at the school. Having drivers see the force measured on a scale drives the point home and helps change behaviors.<\/p>\n
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On the driving course, trainees learn how to parallel park, do a three-point turn, make a serpentine turn and follow the proper parking sequence. Trainers have struck out on finding a mechanical dog to chase the trainees. The following day they are taken out for a real-world test run.<\/p>\n
The academy can handle up to six groups of 15 drivers each, and it is extending its days of operations ahead of a surge in hiring by Amazon’s delivery service partners for the holiday season.<\/p>\n
“I was really happy to see the centralized training,” said William Boyd, owner of Alpha Zulu Logistics, which delivers in Aurora and Broomfield.<\/p>\n
Before the academy’s launch last year, driver training happened primarily at Amazon distribution centers. It was heavily focused on online instruction without a lot of hands-on training or scenario training, Boyd said.<\/p>\n
“Before we took it for granted that a driver knows how to walk and carry something. We just made the assumption that someone can get into one of these vans and maneuver it,” he said. “There is technique involved.”<\/p>\n
Boyd notes that the average age of the 160 workers at his company skews older — 35. And while some have experience making deliveries, many come from different industries and careers and some are near retirement age.<\/p>\n
“It helps to set the foundation. It brings an element of professionalism,” he said.<\/p>\n
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