Pretrip and Posttrip: No Excuses

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Pretrip and Posttrip No Excuses

• 2008-2009 New York State Education Department
  Driver and Attendant Refresher

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Playing the odds

• 20 children will die in school
  bus accidents in the US this year
• Your yearly odds are 1 in 27,500 pretty safe
• In your 100 bus fleet, odds are 1 death every 275
  years
• But, on average, in New York State, 2 children
  will be killed each year
• Who is your team? Who matters? You, your fleet,
  your state, all school bus drivers, all children?

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Todays Objectives

• Actively caring for safety
• Doing a daily personal pretrip
• Hot Inspection Topics
• Mirrors
• Emergency Exits
• Security
• Sleeping Children
• Pumping down the brakes

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Safely Transporting Students
Notice a need is something
wrong?
No
Intervention required am I needed?
No
No Intervention
Assume responsibility should I intervene?
No
Choose intervention What should I do?
No
Perform Actively Caring Behavior
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What does that look like?

• Team actively cares about goals, action plans,
  and consequences
• Team believes in and owns the mission
• Team decides to feel obligated to work towards
  goals and support the vision
• Team gives rewarding, supportive, and corrective
  feedback to increase behaviors consistent with
  vision-relevant goals.

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Snitching or Supporting?

• What driver or attendant behaviors would you
  bring to their attention?
• What driver or attendant behaviors would you
  bring to a supervisors attention?
• What are the possible outcomes?
• Who really wins or loses?

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Your Personal Pretrip

• Sleep Alcohol or drugs
• Personal stress Physical fitness
• Evacuation plans
• Relations with staff
• Relations w/children and
  parents
• On time to work
• Accurate DVIR

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John Donne revisited

• No one is an island,
• No one stands alone.
• Each ones joy is joy to me,
• Each ones grief is my own.
• We need one another.
• So I will defend,
• Each one as my sibling,
• Each one as my friend
• 1572-1631

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Pretrip Posttrip Hot Topics

• Mirrors
• Emergency Exits
• Security
• Sleeping Children
• Pump the Brakes

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Pretrip Mirrors

• Which mirrors are used for
• PM right
• PM left
• BOB
• Pedestrians around bus

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Pretrip Emergency Exits

• Doors unlocked
• Check from outside
• All exits all the way
• Not just to vent
• Keeps hinges working
• Stay open as designed?

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Pretrip and Posttrip Security

• Pre-trip and post-trip inspections that reveal
  the following may suggest the need for further
  attention
• New marks or noticeable force of entry into
  vehicle
• Unusual foreign item(s) attached to vehicle
• Opened or disturbed compartments.

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• TSA recommends checking the following areas for
  suspicious packages, devices, substances,
  unattended baggage, backpacks, etc.

• Clean bus a must!
• Wheelchair lifts
• Lights
• Wheel wells
• Engine compartments
• Floors
• Below seats
• Driver's area
• Step wells

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Its probably nothingbut

• Exhaust system
• Fuel and air tanks
• Back/side emergency exit door(s)
• Wheel wells
• Over windshield
• Trash can
• Luggage compartments
• Battery box

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Posttrip Sleeping Children, etc.

• 1 minute to check
• Under seats
• Find children, lost items, suspicious packages
• Identify vandalism
• Weather extremes can kill children
• Stranger Danger
• Lose job

• Five-year-old child left alone on bus for
  half-hour 'Policies and procedures may not have
  been followed'By Denise Smith Amos  Enquirer
  staff writer 
• Wednesday, October 12, 2005

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Posttrip Pumping Down the Brakes

• Amber Sadiq May 2006
• Driver left vehicle to get lunch
• Passerby child released brake
• Always pump down brakes

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Looking Back

• Actively caring for safety
• Doing a daily personal pretrip
• Hot Inspection Topics
• Mirrors
• Emergency Exits
• Security
• Pumping down the brakes
• Sleeping Children

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Actively Caring means

• Not just knowing how to do inspections but
  believing in their importance
• Caring not just for your outcomes, but your
  fellow drivers and attendants as well
• Committing to the childrens safe transport
• Pride

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• Never ever compromise yourself as a
  professional. Not to a student, a teacher, a
  parent, or to another transportation
  professional.
• Demand respect from all you deal with in your
  job. If we do not respect ourselves, then we
  cannot expect others to respect us, or more
  importantly, to respect the role in which we
  serve.
• Jack Gaffney, Rush-Henrietta CSD