Bus 1
List of student names, pick up and drop off location and times.
First aid kit and Body Fluid cleanup kit.
Fire Extinguisher
Pry Bar
3 Reflective Triangles
Spare electrical fuses
Seatbelt Cutter
What is the Required Emergency equipment found in the driver compartment on a school bus?
15 - 50 feet
What is the required safe distance a school bus needs to stop from the nearest rail at a railroad crossing?
Check mirrors while driving a school bus.
What is every 5-8 seconds?
Keep written copy of route, and students addresses in a safe place for emergency response personnel.
Seating chart in bus and another copy in the office.
Coordinate activities with any aides, paraprofessionals, personal care assistants, or therapeutic support staff who maybe assigned to assist specific students or entire bus.
Keep written emergency seizure plans, local policies on allergy management, use of medication, etc. Be familiar with the plans and policies.
What ensures students’ safety while riding a school bus?
Ensure that your left and right flat mirrors are properly adjusted so you can see __ feet or __ bus lengths behind the bus.
What is 200 feet or 4 bus lengths?
The paramount concern of the School Bus Driver.
What is Safety of all School Children?
Factors you must consider are
Hazards that could make the situation worse,
Obtaining emergency assistance, if necessary
The seriousness of the injuries or illnesses
The safety of all healthy passengers
Your own safety
What is priority setting of procedures in emergency situations?
Skid Control and Recovery
Tire Blowout
Loss of Brakes
Sudden Loss of Visibility
Obstructions in the Path of the Bus
What are Five Emergency Driving Conditions that school bus drivers are confronted with?
Secure the bus!
Call for Help!
Stay Calm & Reassure students!
Tell students to do what you say, to remain absolutely quiet and to remain in their seats!
Assess the emergency!
Stay on bus or evacuate?
Direct 2 student helpers.
Instruct students to leave all belongings behind.
Assess students for injuries!
Dismiss students in an orderly fashion by starting with the right seat, then left seat alternately until the bus is empty.
Check the entire bus, seats, floor to see the bus is completely empty.
Leave the bus and join the students together at a safe location away from the road.
Maintain control of the situation.
Complete reports as required.
What are the School Bus Crash and Emergency Procedures?
During Loading or Unloading.
When is the most dangerous time riding on a school bus?
A safe place to lead students during an evacuation will be at least __ feet from the road in the direction of oncoming traffic. This will keep students from being hit by debris if another vehicle collides with the bus.
What is 100 feet?
Presence of Hazardous Materials
Unsafe Position
Bus Submersion or Immersion
What are reasons to Evacuate the school bus?
If the bus is in the direct path of a sighted tornado and evacuation is ordered, escort students to a nearby __ or __ if shelter in a building is not readily available.
What is a culvert or ditch?
Place the first reflective warning device along the roadway side of the bus within __ feet of the front or rear corner to mark the location of the bus.
Place the second reflective warning device about __ feet behind the bus on the shoulder or lane you are stopped in.
If there is a hill or curve preventing oncoming traffic from seeing the bus place this second reflector up to __ feet behind the bus.
Place the third reflector about __ feet in front of the bus, again using greater distances if conditions warrant.
What is 10 feet, 100 feet, 500 feet and 100 feet to place the 3 reflective triangles to warn oncoming vehicles of a disabled bus?
Downshift.
Put the bus into a lower gear will help slow the bus.
Sound the horn.
DO NOT TURN OFF THE ENGINE.
Maneuver the bus out of traffic.
Steer to avoid a crash.
What do you do if you experience Loss of Brakes?
Only try to extinguish a fire if you know what you are doing and it is safe.
Do Not waste your time fighting a fire when you need to evacuate the bus as quickly as possible!
What is using a fire extinguisher?
Lead students upwind of the bus at least __ feet if there is a risk from spilled hazardous materials.
What is 300 feet?
All Students should be kept together and not released to anyone, including parents unless instructed by school administration officials or unless medical aid is required.
What is part of a School Bus Crash and Emergency Procedure?
The 2 sections in the Pennsylvania School Bus Driver’s Manual that are respectively about Crash and Emergency Procedures and Student Emergencies.
What is unit H and Unit I?
State Law requires each student who is transported in a school bus to participate in emergency evacuation drills in the ___ and __ of __ school year.
What is first week of school and in March of Every school year.
Section 8332 Emergency response provider and bystander good Samaritan civil immunity.
What is Pennsylvania Good Samaritan Act?
As defined by the American Red Cross, __ is the immediate and temporary care given to the victims of crashes and sudden illness until the services of a physician can be obtained.
What is First Aid?
___ feet of the school bus danger zone is the most dangerous.
What is 10 feet?
Immediately Evacuate the school bus and instruct the students to stay together and move 200 feet away from the bus in a direction towards the train, but at a right angle to the train.
What to do if for any reason the school bus should become stalled on the tracks, with or without a train coming.
Is required to be filled out completely and sent to PennDOT within 5 days of an emergency or accident.
What is the DL-739?