Special Safety Concerns of the School Bus Industry (2010) / Chapter Skim
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BARRIERS AND SOLUTIONS TO IMPROVING SAFETY Survey respondents believe that barriers to improved safety in school bus operations consist mainly of inadequate funding; a lack of strict law enforcement and public awareness of laws; and insufficient support from administrators and parents to improve safety and intervene with the problem behavior of students. Funding In terms of funding, many survey respondents believe the typical salary for a school bus driver is insufficient given the level of responsibilities and roles the drivers must fill.
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Finally, survey respondents believe that fleet managers should improve training, increase supervision and monitoring of drivers, ensure maintenance issues are resolved, and make efforts to educate the public regarding school bus safety. In addition, six respondents believe fleet managers are responsible for creating and maintaining a safety culture among their fleet.
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LIMITATIONS AND FUTURE WORK One of the major limitations of this research was the relatively low response. Extensive efforts were made to distribute the survey widely through listservs, individual e-mails, flyers at a major school bus safety conference, flyers at work, telephone calls, and advertisements/announcements in trade publications.
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