Risk Management & Assessment Flashcards
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When conducting a route hazard analysis, which condition should be flagged as a HIGH-priority hazard for a bus stop location?
Answer: A stop just over the crest of a hill with limited sight distance
Limited sight distance prevents approaching motorists from seeing a stopped bus in time, sharply increasing the risk of a crash or student strike.
Data on school transportation fatalities consistently shows that students are at the GREATEST risk of being killed:
Answer: In the loading and unloading zone outside the bus
Most school-bus-related student pedestrian fatalities occur in the danger zone around the bus during loading and unloading.
A district's three-year claims data show rising costs from student injuries on wheelchair lifts. What is the BEST next step in the risk-management process?
Answer: Analyze the incidents to identify root causes and implement targeted controls
Loss data should drive root-cause analysis and targeted corrective actions such as training, equipment inspection, or procedure changes.
Which element is MOST important to include in a written incident report to support later risk analysis and possible litigation defense?
Answer: Objective facts: time, location, conditions, people involved, and witness information
Accurate, objective, and timely facts make reports useful for trend analysis and defensible in legal proceedings.
Under the legal doctrine of negligence, a district may be held liable if it:
Answer: Owed a duty of care, breached that duty, and the breach caused harm
Negligence requires a duty, a breach of that duty, causation, and resulting damages.
Which practice BEST demonstrates the 'reasonable care' standard in supervising student riders?
Answer: Adopting written rider rules, communicating them to parents, and enforcing them consistently
Documented, communicated, and consistently enforced rules show the district exercised reasonable care.
A supervisor wants to measure whether safety programs are working. Which metric is a commonly used benchmark for fleet accident performance?
Answer: Accidents per 100,000 or per million miles driven
Normalizing accidents by miles driven allows fair comparison across years and fleets of different sizes.
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