Tag Archive for: safety training

What are you doing right now to change your exposure to tail swing and sideswipe accidents

What are you doing right now to change your exposure to tail swing and sideswipe accidents? This is one of the questions insurance companies look at each year as they evaluate your school’s insurability.

In order for an insurance company to insure your district, and for you to transport students as safely as possible, you must decrease your chances of having the two most common accidents made in student transportation … tail swing and sideswipe accidents.  And there is on

"Grant Parish School Board initially purchased the Infinit-I Workforce System for use in the transportation department.  Then we quickly realized that the program could be utilized system wide.  The Infinit-I Workforce System has made recordkeeping for state mandated training, for every employee, extremely easy.  Our human resource department no longer has to keep up with thousands of completion certificates and who has not completed their training.  Now we jus

Maintaining Safety Compliance Regarding HAZMAT Requirements

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) recently took another step towards improving safety through its Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA) program. On August 3, 2011 Safety Measurement System (SMS) release, FMCSA refined the criteria that determines which motor carriers are subject to the more stringent Hazardous Materials (HM) intervention threshold. This improvement, which was made after several months of careful monitoring and listening to industry and enforcement safety