Safety and Security Training Offerings
School
Bus Safety Training (with
Buster the Bus)
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Who or what is Buster the Bus? Read more about Buster the School Bus Training Robot.
Buster the Bus is a miniature, remote-controlled three-foot-tall cartoonish replica of a full-size yellow school bus, equipped with a working stop sign, crossing gate, and flashing red lights. Buster is just like a real bus, only smaller! The bus also has a friendly voice that delights children whenever he gives kids important lessons about bus safety.
Kids enjoy seeing the little bus come to life, move its eyes, and swing out its mechanical stop sign.
Buster is the unofficial mascot of the school bus safety program. He can teach school bus safety to students at an approachable level, being tall enough to meet kids eye-to-eye, and he’s agile enough to maneuver through school classrooms easily.
What does Buster do?
Among many important bus safety lessons, the program includes messages about:
• How to cross safely
• How to stay out of the Danger Zone
• How to ride the bus safely
• How to safely wait for the bus
• How to cross in front of the bus
• How to climb the steps
• How to ride school busses to and from school.
• How to evacuate the school bus
First Observer Plus
The First Observer Plus curriculum is offered to transportation personnel, including School Bus Drivers, in response to worldwide acts of violence. First Observer Plus program is administered by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), with the mission to promote the security of our critical infrastructure within the United States by training people to observe, assess and report risks and security breaches. This training will also give school bus drivers and other transportation employees the knowledge they need to better spot suspicious activities that could be linked to acts of terror, and then report those events to a coordinated intelligence center.
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School
Transportation Security Awareness Training
This critical
training need involves how to manage safety issues on the
bus to protect students from threats from both within and
outside of the bus. School Transportation Security Awareness
Training is designed to increase school transportation staff
awareness of critical transportation security vulnerabilities
and other issues. More specifically, the training aims to
promote awareness and preparedness. STSA focuses on terrorist
and criminal threats to school buses, bus passengers and destination
facilities. Hence, it is designed to provide school bus drivers,
administrators, and staff members with information that will
enable them to effectively identify and report perceived security
threats, as well as the skills to appropriately react and
respond to a security incident should it occur. STSA topics include:
• Terrorism Defined
• Who Are Terrorists?
• Define And Identify A Security Threat
• Define And Identify A Security Incident
• Potential Weapons And The Probability Of Use
• The latest trends in school violence threats to safety
• The impact of terrorism on school security and transportation services
• School buses as potential targets of terrorism.
Visit our Safety Lessons page for additional Safety information
For more information, please contact North Carolina Department of Public Instruction:
DPI TRANSPORTATION SERVICES, 919- 807- 3570