Incident Commander/Principal Dispatch appropriate transportation or other staff to the accident location. Assess level of support or resources needed and make it available. Obtain names and phone numbers of students/passengers, conditions, locations if removed from scene and report to district or other designated staff for instituting parental notifications and information sharing. Ensure that special health or medical information is provided to appropriate medical providers. Instruct designated staff to accompany injured students to hospital, if needed. Determine if Family Reunification procedures should be activated. Determine if mental health and healing procedures are needed. Other Procedures and General Operations Emergency services agencies, if called, will take charge of the accident scene upon their arrival. A school representative should be dispatched to the accident scene if distance and time permit. Communication with parents and child-care providers is critical since a late school bus always causes some anxiety. The Incident Commander in charge of the incident will decide when the school can begin individual parent notification. All injured and potentially injured persons (as determined by EMS personnel) will be transported to area hospitals/clinics for evaluation. The number of ambulances utilized and destinations will be determined by the on-scene emergency services personnel. If emergency response authorities at the determine that the accident is minor in nature, every effort will be made to avoid unnecessary transport of the children to hospitals/clinics. In that event, the school representative at the scene will have the option of having custody and control over the children, to sign a release form declining hospital transport. The form utilized will list the names of all children that have been evaluated by EMS personnel, have been found to lack mechanism of injury, signs of injury and have no complaints of injury. The school will provide, for inclusion with this procedure, a list of individuals that have been granted authority to act as the school’s representative at an accident scene. No bus drivers are to be included on this list. If no list is provided the Incident Commander may verify the authority of a representative by contacting the school/district office. Anyone claiming to be the school representative but not included on the list and who cannot be verified by the school/district will not be permitted to sign the refusal. Any child not listed on the release form will be transported to a hospital for further evaluation. In the event that the school representative signs the release form for all passengers on the bus at the time of the accident, a driver and school bus not involved in the accident will be dispatched to the scene to continue the student transportation.
Incident Commander/Principal Dispatch appropriate transportation or other staff to the accident location. Assess level of support or resources needed and make it available. Obtain names and phone numbers of students/passengers, conditions, locations if removed from scene and report to district or other designated staff for instituting parental notifications and information sharing. Ensure that special health or medical information is provided to appropriate medical providers. Instruct designated staff to accompany injured students to hospital, if needed. Determine if Family Reunification procedures should be activated. Determine if mental health and healing procedures are needed. Other Procedures and General Operations Emergency services agencies, if called, will take charge of the accident scene upon their arrival. A school representative should be dispatched to the accident scene if distance and time permit. Communication with parents and child-care providers is critical since a late school bus always causes some anxiety. The Incident Commander in charge of the incident will decide when the school can begin individual parent notification. All injured and potentially injured persons (as determined by EMS personnel) will be transported to area hospitals/clinics for evaluation. The number of ambulances utilized and destinations will be determined by the on-scene emergency services personnel. If emergency response authorities at the determine that the accident is minor in nature, every effort will be made to avoid unnecessary transport of the children to hospitals/clinics. In that event, the school representative at the scene will have the option of having custody and control over the children, to sign a release form declining hospital transport. The form utilized will list the names of all children that have been evaluated by EMS personnel, have been found to lack mechanism of injury, signs of injury and have no complaints of injury. The school will provide, for inclusion with this procedure, a list of individuals that have been granted authority to act as the school’s representative at an accident scene. No bus drivers are to be included on this list. If no list is provided the Incident Commander may verify the authority of a representative by contacting the school/district office. Anyone claiming to be the school representative but not included on the list and who cannot be verified by the school/district will not be permitted to sign the refusal. Any child not listed on the release form will be transported to a hospital for further evaluation. In the event that the school representative signs the release form for all passengers on the bus at the time of the accident, a driver and school bus not involved in the accident will be dispatched to the scene to continue the student transportation.