School bus safety

This section is designed for people who use or are associated with school bus travel. It's loaded with tips for increasing safety on and around school buses.

• Schools: ideas for schools and teachers to further improve the safety of school bus travel.
• Parents & caregivers: tips for safely collecting children off the school bus, preparing them for school bus travel and a reminder of the speed limit for passing a school bus (20 km/h).
• Bus wardens: information from the School Traffic Safety Team manual.
• Students: tips to keep students safe going to school, on the bus and going home.
• Bus drivers & operators: the obligations and responsibilties of those driving school buses or organising school bus travel.
• Encouraging school bus safety: suggestions for promoting school bus safety in your school and your community.
• School bus safety overview group: a collaborative organisational group, working to further improve the safety of school bus travel.
• Promoting 20 km/h as the speed limit for passing a stationary school bus: information and ideas to help communities promote the legal speed limit for passing a school bus.
• Guidelines for safe siting of school bus stops: factors to consider when choosing a site for a school bus stop.
• Safe behaviour on buses: tools and resources from the Ministry of Education to help schools and bus operators manage the risk of unsafe behaviour and encourage safe school bus travel.

Last updated: 20 January 2005