A Conversation About Transportation Safety
Watch this webinar to learn about the importance of transportation safety for children in Head Start programs.
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Transportation Safety
When it comes to transportation safety for Head Start programs, good planning and adherence to the safety plan are essential. Use these resources to improve safety practices, including emergency vehicle evacuation procedures.
Keeping Children Safe in and Around Cars
It is never safe for a child to be in or around a vehicle without adult supervision. During the warmer months of the year, unattended children left in cars are more likely to suffer heat-related illnesses. Children also may suffer injury when playing alone around parked vehicles. Program staff and parents can use this resource to learn more about car safety practices that keep young children healthy.
Bus Driver Road Performance Observation Form
Program directors and transportation coordinators can use this resource to observe the driving performance of bus drivers.
Program Operations Safety
To keep children safe, early care education settings can develop plans to reduce the risk of hazards. Learn to identify risks and discover how it is key to develop protocols as part of regular program operations.
Transportation Safety
This video discusses how to keep children safe while transporting them to and from early education settings and answers common questions on policies and strategies.
1302.46 Family support services for health, nutrition, and mental health.
Programs must collaborate with parents to promote children’s health and well-being by providing medical, oral, nutrition and mental health education support services that are understandable to everyone.
1303.71 Vehicles.
This standard outlines the required use or provision of school buses or allowable alternate vehicles, emergency equipment, child restraint systems, and vehicle maintenance and inspection.
1303.72 Vehicle operation.
Read vehicle operation requirements related to safety, driver qualifications and application reviews, and training for drivers and bus monitors.
1303.73 Trip routing.
This standard requires programs to consider the safety of the children it transports when planning fixed routes.
Managing and Training Transportation Staff
Use these resources to manage and train transportation staff and create safe, nurturing learning environments on buses and other modes of transportation.
