It is important that you have a training program in place for coaching your managers and employees. By having coaching sessions with your supervisors around harassment and discrimination issues in the workplace, you’re helping them understand what is and is not acceptable behavior in the workplace on an ongoing basis.

Coaching your managers also helps you build a story should you ever have an EEOC or similar claim filed against your company. You’ll be able to show the kind of coaching you did. You’ll be able to prove your company understands what it means to be an EEOC complaint workplace.

The Infinit-I Workforce System makes it easy for you to guide your leaders to supervise the right way, to lead the right way, and to create an environment that is as free as possible from discrimination, retaliation, and harassment.

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Summary of 5 Deadly Sins Safety Managers Make

Government regulations can be unpredictable for the transportation industry. On top of this, you have new court precedents that make it more difficult for safety managers to protect their company.

In particular, there are 5 court precedents in place that can cause unexpected issues for safety managers and transportation companies if you don’t know how to navigate them.

1. Negligent hiring
2. Negligent retention
3. Driver negligence
4. Functionally asleep
5. Last clear chance

When it comes to negligent hiring, this is completely on hiring managers. Plaintiff attorneys will come after your company if you haven’t done everything in your power to hire safe drivers.

While you don’t always have to redo safe driving tests when hiring new drivers, you do need to know their background, especially for issues such as failed drug tests. Make sure ahead of time that you know everything you need to know about the drivers you are hiring.

Negligent retention is also completely on the company. Plaintiff attorneys will look for the policies you have for drivers, and you need to have all these policies in writing. You also need to ensure that all policies are being followed.

Courts will assume that if the company policies aren’t being followed, no rules and regulations will be followed. It is important for everyone, including leadership to know and follow these rules.

These two issues alone can lead to punitive damages that can cost millions of dollars.

Driver negligence has to do with the actions of drivers before and during an accident. If an attorney can find that a driver was doing something they shouldn’t, they will look to see how your company could be at fault for this.

Functionally asleep involves what your driver does during rest times. If the driver was supposed to be resting, but the plaintiff attorney can prove they were on the phone during that time, the driver is considered functionally asleep.

Attorneys will look to your training records once again to determine if you hold any blame. If you can’t prove you provided training on proper rest, your company can be held at fault.

Last clear chance is about your driver being able to avoid an accident. If a plaintiff attorney can prove that the driver had a clear chance to stop the accident and didn’t, that falls under this category. This is even if another driver was at fault during the accident.

Once again, your company can be held liable if you can’t prove proper training. You must be able to prove you have done everything you could/should have to minimize accidents. If you don’t have documentation, you can be held liable because you can’t prove you trained your drivers.

When it comes to your safety program, it’s important to remember: if it’s not in writing, not signed, and not dated, it didn’t happen.

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In this video, Dean Huth gives an overview of the “5 Deadly Sins” safety managers make.  This is the first in a five part training video series for safety managers available exclusively on the Infinit-I Workforce System.

LEARN HOW THE INFINIT-I WORKFORCE SYSTEM CAN HELP YOU:

Your number one priority in student transportation is ensuring your students make it safely to their destination.  Our number one priority is helping you ensure your drivers know how to manage safety issues on and around the bus. As the premier provider of online training for the student transportation industry, one thing has always set Vertical Alliance Group apart from the competition … our commitment to providing a customized training platform for your school district.

This includes teaching districts how to easily create their own custom training videos, while providing access to over 350+ training videos in the Infinit-I Workforce System. We’d like to invite you to stop by our booth at the SESPTC Conference on July 12th to film a personal safety video message for your drivers.  We’ll take your message and attach it to a video designed to remind your drivers about the importance of teaching children safety on and off the bus.

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Schedule Time at SESPTC to Film Your Safety Training Video

With close to 600 people currently registered to attend the SESPTC Conference, and only 5 hours for you to visit the Expo Hall, we encourage you to reserve a time to film your free safety training video. You can still stop by our booth and film the video, even if you don’t have a time slot reserved, but we will ensure those who scheduled an appointment are filmed first!

About Infinit-I Workforce System

The Infinit-I Workforce System was designed to inspire and create behavioral changes in your school bus drivers and other employees responsible for the day-to-day operation of your bus barn.  As the pupil transportation industry’s premier online learning management system, Infinit-I Workforce System not only gives you access to over 350+ school bus driver training videos, but it also provides the best online training, tracking, reporting, and online school bus driver communication platform in the industry. Hundreds of school districts utilizing this powerful school bus driver training program have reported improved student management, easier in-service coordination, improved safety meetings, streamlined communication, and more.  Sound too good to be true?  It’s not. Read some of our Client Testimonials to learn how utilizing Infinit-I Workforce System has revolutionized not only their school bus safety training programs, but also their entire bus barn operation.

Utilize 350+ School Bus Driver Training Videos

If your school bus training videos consist of  DVDs and VHS tapes, it is time to bring your program into the digital age.  With over 350+ bus driver training videos in our Training Library, you’ll enjoy access to current training on just about every topic you can imagine for training school bus drivers. Request our Training Catalog to get an in-depth look at the titles and video series currently available to you with your Infinit-i Workforce System membership. Plus, Infinit-I Workforce System is constantly creating and adding new videos into our Training Library.  All videos are between 5-10 minutes in length, making them easy to watch anywhere, anytime.  Their short length also makes them a perfect choice for safety meeting discussions. Want a tour of the our Training Library?  Schedule your demo now.

Customize Your Content Library & Driver Resource Area

When we first launched Infinit-I Workforce System, our goal was to provide the most robust training tool the student transportation industry had ever seen.  We realized from the first day we launched our system that providing a way for transportation directors to post modules from their own training libraries, plus upload district policy and procedure manuals, insurance information, driver calendars, announcements, and more into the system was going to be paramount to the system being a successful tool for school bus driver training programs.  By doing this we were able to ensure each school district we serve has the right training solution available for their bus drivers and their team. While some skills needed in the student transportation industry are standard, every district is different. Through one-on-one consultations, our team helps you identify your unique training needs and requirements.  Then we help you design highly customized solutions that address your unique district bus driver training challenges, making training bus drivers an easy, streamlined process.  And the best part is…our impressive reporting and tracking system makes it easy for you to see when you are achieving measurable results. Custom content is not limited to training videos.  In fact, a large number of our clients utilize our learning management system to make it easy for drivers to access all your district’s documents in one location.  Check out some of these exciting ways Infinit-I Workforce System clients are currently customizing their driver resource areas:

Your Very Own School Bus Driver Safety Training Consultant

We do more than just develop custom training solutions for the student transportation industry.  As a Infinit-I Workforce System user, you will be introduced to your personal Client Services Representative who will work with you from set-up and implementation through ongoing utilization of the system to ensure you are getting the maximum benefit out of your new training resource tool.  Your Client Services Representative is always just a phone call (or email) away, ready to assist you.  You can be as involved (or as uninvolved) as you want to be in every step of the process. We like to tell people, with Infinit-I Workforce System, you’re never alone.  All you need to be able to do is dial a phone, and we will take care of you from there. Our goal is to create a strong relationship with you to help guide your transportation department to success using an online learning platform. When you choose Infinit-I Workforce System, we become a partner with your training team.  Together we will work to achieve your transportation department’s learning objectives. Your Client Services Representative serves as a consultant and mentor for you on best practices for utilizing your training system.  He or she will regularly review your account and call you on a monthly or quarterly basis to offer advice, ideas, and new information for you to implement into your training program. Our Client Services Team is what our clients tell us truly sets us apart from others in the industry.

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