Child Passenger Safety advocates are found within many specialties, from bus drivers and school transportation administrators to educators and community organizers.  Their activites range from working directly with caregivers or children to setting policies or teaching those who want to work in the field.

This section offers information from Safe Ride News related specifically to School Transportation Professionals. 

Please contact us if you wish to contribute or make suggestions for additional material related to school transportation and child care.

School Bus Handbook—Only the Tip of an Iceberg
Editoial by Deborah D. Stewart
   The new School Bus Safety Handbook has generated quite a response from SRN readers who, I expect, are among the most avid advocates and the first-adopters of anything that can extend their CPS knowledge. 
    Now we are reaching out to the school transportation world. Those folks are our main audience, as the organization of the book shows. continued here

Child Safety Restraint Systems on School Buses National Training, NHTSA Course 
This 8-hour curriculum including hands-on with products.  It focuses specifically on installing and using child safety restraint systems on large and small school buses.   It follows the current standardized CPST curriculum and six CEUs for CPSTs may be available—inquire with class organizer.

The course can be taught by a CPST or instructor who has experience with school bus-specific issues To obtain a copy, contact Deanna Capra, National Safety Council, 1121 Spring Lake Dr., Itasca, IL  60143-3201, deanna.capra@nsc.org (Please allow 3 weeks for delivery.)

Using Safety Belts on School Buses: Lifesavers Report 2007
SafeGuard president Steve Wallen described the Safeguard school bus seat with lap-shoulder belts. The seat provides compartmentalization for the passengers behind as well as restraint for the child in the seat, so the seat behind can be occupied by an unrestrained passenger. (Where tethered CRs or vests anchored with a cam-wrap strap are installed on a conventional school bus seat, the seat behind must not be occupied by an unrestrained passenger because the restraint may impede the flexing of the seat back needed for compartmentalization.)
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