Students riding a bus from home to school and back has become such a common concept that it is often taken for granted, with few people questioning the mechanics thereof. However, from a business standpoint, the specified procedure may seem slightly more complicated than expected (Li et al., 2022). Due to the presence of multiple threats, the process of loading and unloading students onto and from the bus must be viewed as a business procedure that requires enhanced safety and risk management techniques.
As a daily business procedure, loading students onto the bus and unloading them from it needs to be seen from the standpoint of risk management. Namely, appropriate devices for risk mitigation must be incorporated. These include the switching on the warning flasher system within at least 100 m when making a stop, approaching the area with the minimum speed, checking the presence of traffic, and ensuring that students keep at the required distance from the bust and other vehicles when loading onto it or unloading from it (Li et al., 2022). Thus, the safety of all participants of the process will be increased.
Furthermore, the key elements of the check list require further attention. Namely, the standards such as looking left and right prior to getting onto the bus will have to be introduced to students (Li et al., 2022). Furthermore, bus drivers will be instructed regarding the increase in safety rates by activating appropriate signs and placing the vehicle in the areas where children will be able to spot a threat and act immediately must be reinforced. Moreover, the monitoring process will occur as the bus driver monitors students entering and leaving the bus respectively. The specified steps should be seen as the primary elements of the student loading and unloading process.
Given the increased rate of threat to children when they are loaded onto the school bus and unloaded from it, the specified task must be seen as a business procedure with major risks and the subsequent need for a proper risk mitigation strategy in place. Specifically, the emphasis on communication and quality control as crucial parts of business procedures must be integrated into the guidelines. Thus, the risk of accidents will be minimized.
References
Li, Z., Li, R., Zhang, H., Jiang, N., Feng, G., & Qi, X. (2022). Development of a school bus restraint system model and its application in the evaluation of designed protective strategies on child neck injury in front-end crash. International Journal of Crashworthiness, 27(3), 847-856.