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Child passenger safety technician Miriam Manary of the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute assists an attendee with proper securement of a front-facing car seat at the 2017 TSD Conference.
and provided costs. LaRocco added that the state decided on what education funds could be used. He added that after the School Bus Committee initiated the regulation, it needed State Budget Committee approval. Once that was secured, the attorney general and the governor then signed off. Compartmentalized seating, the cushioned and high-back seating designed in the 1970s, is intended to protect students who are seated properly and who weigh over 50 pounds from fron- tal and rear impacts. However, pre-K children tend to be smaller, lay down, sit sideways and, in some cases, move around the bus. LaRocco said those facts contributed to the Indiana committee moving toward promoting the regulation. Each Indiana school district had choices regarding which CSRS would work for them. One system is the add-on, school-bus-specific CSRS. Tese are five-point harness installed using a cam wrap or cam harnesses, which is a webbing that wraps over the back of the seat and is sometimes secured under the seat cushion. NHTSA requires that passengers seated directly behind occupants restrained in cam harnesses
be restrained with a seatbelt or other restraint systems, or the seat must remain unoccupied. Another type of approved system is the Integrated CSRS. Tis five-point harness built into the bus seating. No restraint installation is needed. Smaller children, such as babies and young toddlers, should ride rear-facing in car seats as they do in other vehicles.
Companies such as BESI, E-Z-ON Products of Florida, HSM Transportation Solutions, and
SafeGuard offer many varieties of the safety restraints required. Contributing to the success and safety of the CSRS is the required training for installation and use of the restraints. School bus drivers and monitors can receive training via the NHTSA eight- hour seminar Child Passenger Safety Restraints on School Buses provided at the STN EXPO, TSD Conference and at some individual state or regional conferences.
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18 School Transportation News • JANUARY 2018
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