The Can You See Me? Arms, visible from the bus’ mirror.
The Can You See Me? Arms
School Bus Contractors Association to distribute the signs, which are available free of charge to in-state operations.
“Tis is a simple but important
way of reminding drivers to thor- oughly inspect their bus for remain- ing children,” said Ray Kuehner, president of STSNJ. Te DCF investigated 56 inci- dents where children were left on school buses or other transportation vehicles in 2014. In some cases, the students were trapped for hours, and those who managed to escape were found wandering in the bus’ vicinity. “Te signs reinforce the training
bus drivers receive about the impor- tance of post-trip inspections,” said Mark Jordan, director of operations for school bus contractor Student Transportation of America’s north- ern New Jersey contracts. “No child should ever be left alone on a bus and these signs will help prevent it from happening.” Districts across the country also
employ simple yet effective steps to visually remind drivers and to per- form a check, and to indicate that a
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check was performed properly. “Every bus is equipped with
a broom. It is stored at the front of the bus during the route. Te driver places the broom upright at the rear of the bus before exiting (after a route) as a sign of ‘sweep and check,’” Sam Bailey, director of transportation at Biloxi Public Schools in Mississippi stated in the recent STN security survey. Peggy Morgan, transportation
coordinator at CAS/Morgan County Head Start in Tennessee reported in the same survey that her operation requires employees who were not on a route to perform the inspection after each trip.
Checking the bus should not only be done inside the bus after a route, but also around the Danger Zone, the 10-by-10-foot area around the bus, before departing on a route. Victoria DeCarlo, a school bus driver at Lake Shore Central School District in Angola, New York, and a school bus safety inventor, devel- oped a tool called the “Can You See Me?” arm, which is designed to help in training drivers to check inside
PHOTO: VICTORIA DECARLO
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