Observers' Meetings
These meetings are usually held twice a year in May and November.
MINUTES of Last Meeting
The minutes of the meeting held on
30th May 2023 can be
downloaded here.
The next Observers’ meeting will be on 21st November 2023
at the Kenn Centre
Risk Assessment
To find the Risk Assessment on the IAM RoadSmart website:
Log on to your ‘Dashboard’ go to ‘Group Management’ then ‘Group Handbook’ Appendix 6, pages 115 to 122.
Training resources
Our Chief Observer and our local Examiners have produced some useful documents to help our Observers when preparing Associates for the Test.
These are available for download to add to your Associate training resources.
Examiners' thoughts:
We have had two IAM RoadSmart examiners attend our meetings. Tim Eden and Roger Ware each gave a wide-ranging talk covering many of the points that they encounter in their work for IAM RoadSmart.
Chief Observer's Tip sheets:
Tips from the Chief Observer are published occasionally – look out for them here.

Freda Richardson – together with her Observer – Chris Patten.
Chris is our newest Observer, he took on Freda as an associate whilst a Trainee, and qualified as a Local Observer whilst completing her coaching. Freda was extremely determined to succeed at the test, so we have a combination of our newest observer and our newly qualified oldest member – Freda is proud to say that she is 87 years old!