The National Auto Auction Association is now providing its member auctions with free courses on Auction Safety Certification and Lane Safety Training.

NAAA added the safety series, which includes video courses, to its website on Monday.

It is designed to promote safety awareness and prevent accidents. The courses are based on a two-tiered system for both full-time and part-time employees at auctions.

The Auction Safety Certification course includes 12 videos. Staff members take a quiz at the end of each one. NAAA estimates that the entire course can be completed in an hour, but participants will have a month to complete it once they start.

Meanwhile, the 20-minute Lane Safety Training course is designed for temporary agency drivers. 

“Busy auto auctions have the potential to be hazardous — especially to those unaccustomed to the work environment of the lanes,” NAAA chief executive officer Frank Hackett said in a news release.

“So our program not only addresses improving safe practices with staff members, but also offers training to familiarize the industry’s many part-time employees, and contractors with the safety conditions and issues encountered at an auction,” he added.

The courses can be accessed through the “Safe T. Sam” icon under the Education and Training section on www.naaa.com. Or, follow this link directly to the page.  

“NAAA created this program because the safety of our members, their employees, customers, and their onsite contractors, are the most valuable and important asset at each auction,” Hackett said. “When you hire an employee, training and education becomes paramount to understanding the safest, most productive way to do the job.”