Pre-trip and Post-trip: No Excuses - Safety Rules

1 2008-2009 NYSED Refresher Pre-trip and post - trip : No Excuses1 Pre-trip and post - trip : No Excuses2008-2009 New York State Education Department Driver and Attendant RefresherInstructor Notes: Be sure to read the Lesson Plan and the Background Information in your PDS manual in preparation for teaching. Explain the reason for the refresher title no Excuses . These inspections are not complicated or influenced by anyone other than the drivers and attendants themselves. It s not like defensive driving where you have to compensate for the actions of others.

2 If you don t do an inspection, it s because you chose not to. You can also highlight the fact that all drivers and attendants in New York State are receiving this same instruction. If all of us can get together and commit to doing these inspections properly, children s lives will be saved and no drivers or attendants will lose their jobs because of poorly done or skipped inspections. The first part of this lesson works to develop this sense of shared Activity: Pass out the Inspection Crossword to drivers and attendants as they enter the classroom and make sure they have something to write with for this and other activities.

3 Encourage them to begin working on the crossword and let them know that it is OK to work together this is not a Overheads:If you are printing these pages for use on an overhead projection, there are comments at the bottom of the Notes Pages for specific instructions that differ from the use of computer projection. For slides that have bulleted lists enter one point at a time, use progressive disclosure to achieve the same Notes Pages are not meant as a script, but to provide the intended background material for you to put into your own words and share through the lens of your own experience.

4 The Background material in the PDS manual includes more detail on some of these NYSED Refresher Pre-trip and post - trip : No Excuses2 Pretrip and Postrip Refresher2 Playing the odds 20 children will diein 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 childrenwill be killed each year Who is your team? Who matters?You, your fleet, your state, all school bus drivers, all children?Instructor Notes: Use this slide to talk frankly about the odds.

5 In fact, most bus drivers will not be involved in a fatal accident. Even so, you can stress how the loss of a classmate, family member, co-worker, or friend can be devastating you might want to offer a personal or local example it doesn t have to be school bus related. 20 children a year includes an average of about 13 killed in the loading zone and 7 killed as bus passengers in crashes. These numbers fluctuate by as much as 100 percent annually because the numbers are so small that a single occurrence like the Huntsville, Alabama crash can push the numbers up for a year.

6 If there are 550,000 school buses on the road in the US, each drivers individual odds are 20/550,000 or 1 in 27,500. Chances are pretty good it won t be you BUT is that a reason not to care? Making the jump from an individual driver or attendant to an operation, a 100 bus fleet is likely to experience a fatality once every 275 years. Another way to look at this that is more immediate is to say that in 275 100-bus fleets, one will have a fatal accident this year. New York State transports about 1/10thof all the children in the country so statistically that means about 2 children a year in New York State.

7 These could be upstate, they could be downstate, but unless everyone makes a decision to be better than the rest of the country, they will happen here. The bottom line is, Who do I consider a part of my circle of concern? The whole point of the beginning of this lesson is to get drivers and attendants to not just dismiss doing quality pre-trips and post -trips that might uncover vandalized brake lines, bulbs out in the loading or brake lights, or sleeping children just because it probably won t happen to them, but to broaden their circle of concern to include all students drivers and attendants.

8 That would mean that everyone/every day chooses to do the right Activity: Ask them briefly how a news report of a school bus fatality can affect them even if it s not their bus. Answers might include imposition of new regulatory requirements on school bus personnel and operations, parents choosing to transport children themselves that would increase overall risk and reduce the need for school busing and jobs, putdowns from friends or general public about school buses and those who operate them, NYSED Refresher Pre-trip and post - trip : No Excuses3 Pretrip and Postrip Refresher3 Today s Objectives Actively caring for Safety Doing a daily personal Pre-trip Hot Inspection Topics.

9 Mirrors Emergency Exits Security Sleeping Children Parking the busInstructor Notes: Briefly explain the objectives let them know what is ahead. Tell them that you will return to the objectives at the end of the lesson so they will have a chance to check yourperformance . Explain that this lesson will not be a comprehensive review of the walkaround inspection but will focus on commitment to doing a good inspection and the five HOT TOPICS that have high-risk potential. A few are topics that have been discussed foreverand some are ones that have come to our attention more recently, but all are ones with a high potential for risk.

10 2008-2009 NYSED Refresher Pre-trip and post - trip : No Excuses4 Did you get it?4 Instructor Notes: Using a copy of the crossword clues, go through the across first, asking for answers from the class first. Each click will uncover the next clue. Don t spend a lot of time explaining answers because most will be addressed during the lesson. Don t let a small group answer all the questions. The reason for doing this right away is to get their attention off of the puzzle if they are still trying to complete it and back on the Version:Before you put up this overhead, go through each clue in order and see if they got the answers.