To ensure appropriate safety practices for all types of vehicles on campus, the Risk and Insurance Office and the Department of Environmental Health and Safety are implementing a new golf cart/utility vehicle safety program for all employees and students who operate these vehicles on campus. This program will make navigating campus safer for drivers and pedestrians, while helping to ensure drivers are equipped with the information they need to operate these vehicles effectively.

If you are an approved driver and selected golf carts/utility vehicles as a vehicle you are driving on the latest motor vehicle report you will receive and an email from durisk@drake.edu providing you information on how to complete a brief recorded training module. In addition, a one-time in person training with a golf cart or utility vehicle is required. While the recorded training is required annually, the in-person training is only to be completed once.  If you anticipate driving a golf cart or utility vehicle at any time and are not an approved driver, please complete the Motor Vehicle Report.

If your department is planning on renting a golf cart or utility vehicle please fill out Golf Cart Rental form. This will need to be approved by Risk and Insurance Office prior to operation on campus.

If you receive an email and no longer drive a golf cart or utility vehicle please let us know so we can remove you from our list.

Questions about the new process and protocols may be directed to durisk@drake.edu.

— Kelly Foster, Finance and Administration