School Bus Emergency Preparedness Tips
School bus transportation presents unique challenges when planning for safety and emergency preparedness. In some cases entire schools or whole communities need to be relocated. Whether filled with students or evacuees from a disaster, school districts should provide training to school bus drivers so that they are properly prepared to respond to any critical event! School buses should be outfitted with proper emergency response supplies and Minimum National Standard

• All school bus fleet administrators should establish procedures in their respective fleets for handling emergencies such as collisions, riots, strikes, sabotage, natural phenomena, and clinical contamination of a school or the need to evacuate a school or community building for any reason.
• Cooperation and coordination of emergency response efforts among local agencies (police, fire, civil defense) and other community resources should be established.
• School districts should identify which disasters are most likely to occur in their communities and plan ahead to appropriately respond.
• Phone trees with the appropriate lines of cooperating authority and current contact info should be established and shared among the respective agencies.
• Procedures should be defined for the event that land telephone lines are inoperable.
• Reasonable and accurate estimates should be made of available personnel resources and equipment and the time required responding to a variety of critical events.
• Procedures should be established to provide for the transportation needs of mentally and physically challenged in emergency situations.
• Communication and training of emergency preparedness and safety procedures and policies is critical. Everyone involved must buy in to the need to be prepared.
• Review policies regularly! Community wide weekend emergency response practice drills are a great way to get everyone involved.

Workplace Vehicle Safety Tips
Workplace vehicle crashes cost employers $60 billion annually in medical care, legal expenses, property damage and lost productivity. They also drive up the cost of workers' compensation, Social Security, and private health and disability insurance. The average crash costs an employer $16,500. When an on-the-job crash results in an injury, the cost to their employer is approximately $74,000. Fatality costs can exceed $500,000.

Workplace Vehicle Safety Tips:

• Senior management must make safety polices and practices a priority.
• Employees should be involved in developing procedures.
• Develop clear, comprehensive and enforceable safety policies.
• Safety policies and procedures must be communicated regularly.
• Establish contracts with all employees who drive for work purposes.
• Motor Vehicle Record (MVR) checks must be completed for new employees and reviewed regularly.
• Establish and enforce crash reporting and investigation procedures.
• Develop maintenance and inspection shedules for all company vehicles
• Keep maintenance recoreds and records of all incident reports.
• Create policy for course of action in the event of a moving violation or “preventable” crash.
• Institute a driver reward/incentive program to make safe driving an integral part of your business culture. Safe driving behaviors contribute directly to the bottom line and should be recognized as such. 

Defensive Driving Safety Tips
There are close to 50,000 fatalities in motor vehicle crashes each year and over 2.4 million more suffer disabling injuries. Every driver remains at risk no matter how careful you are or how skilled a driver you think you are. Good defensive driving starts with following the rules of the road and adding a keen awareness of other drivers and vehicles. Below are useful defensive driving safety tips that can help reduce your risks on the road.

DEFENSIVE DRIVING SAFETY TIPS

• Safety belts save thousands of lives each year. Don't start the engine until every passenger is secure. Lock all doors.
• Maintain proper speed; driving too fast or too slow can cause collisions.
• Don't drink and drive! If you plan to drink, designate a driver who won't drink.
• Don't be a distracted driver! No cell phones, no reading or responding to e-mails or text messages, no adjusting GPS's or accessing the internet.
• Be alert! Always be assessing the vehicles within your site. Notice unusual driving behaviors.
• Avoid potential crashes or impaired drivers by turning right at the nearest corner or exiting at the nearest exit. If it appears that an oncoming car is crossing into your lane, pull over to the roadside, sound the horn and flash your lights.
• Notify authorities ASAP after seeing a motorist who is driving suspiciously.
• Follow the rules of the road. Don't contest the "right of way" of another car during merges. Be respectful of other motorists.
• Don't follow too closely. Use a "three-second plus following distance."
• While driving, be cautious, aware and responsible.

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