Choosing and Using Child Safety Restraint Systems

   This user-friendly handbook serves as an all-in-one background, reference, and resource guide for school district personnel, child passenger safety technicians, and special needs transportation specialists.

   The handbook, first published in 9/09, includes considerations for selecting safety restraints for use in different types of school buses, installation details, and current product information.

   The School Bus Safety Handbook is geared to support the NHTSA training course: Child Passenger Safety Restraint Systems on School Buses. It has been prepared in consultation with national school bus experts.

Highlights:

•    Different types of belt systems and seating systems 
        found on buses
•    Installation of child safety products if no seat belts are
        available
•    Retrofitting belts or seating with built-in CSRS
•    Finding the conventional CSRS that will best fit on buses
•    Inventory management
•    Installation of various kinds of conventional CSRS
•    Installation of school-bus specific products
•    Use of LATCH in buses, and tethers for special
        needs products 
•    Correctly securing children in various restraint systems
  

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