School bus personnel training for emergency situations
HAYS COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) — School bus personnel and first responders from all around Texas gathered at Hays CISD Transportation Training Facility for a school bus safety training on Saturday.
The training event, called Operation STEER (Student Transportation Emergency Education and Response) consisted of a smoke-filled bus simulation, fire extinguisher training, first aid, railroad crossing evacuations and emergency student management.
Diane Wilson, a safety education training specialist with the Region 6 Education Service Center (ESC) in Huntsville, Texas, emphasized the importance of being prepared for any given scenario at the event.
“The whole gist of the whole program is response,” Wilson said. “We want to properly prepare first responders, as well as our school bus personnel, for response to an incident by using muscle memory: I’ve done this before. I can do it again.”
Operation STEER was developed in partnership with the Texas Department of Transportation and Region 6 ESC. This is the training’s second year.
