• BUS COLLISION PREVENTION AND INVESTIGATION SEMINAR: FT00470

Length: 1 day
Materials Fee: None

Seminar Overview

This seminar provides a condensed compilation of information taught in several of TSI’s Bus Collision Investigation courses and is targeted for management and administrative personnel who do not regularly respond to on-scene collision investigations, but who may become part of the resolution process. The seminar is also intended for managers who supervise field investigators. It will heighten management awareness of the fact that many elements/systems play a role in contributing to the probable cause of a collision/incident. The seminar highlights how proper investigative techniques and methodologies assist in reducing liability claims and collision frequency, including some hidden and direct costs. This seminar emphasizes the critical need for accurately documenting evidence at the scene to better facilitate reconstruction of collisions should litigation arise. Management will be encouraged to develop proactive policies to reduce and prevent collisions.

Seminar Elements

• Transit bus collision statistics, National Transit Database (NTD)
• Safety and hazards analysis
• Role and practices of the National Transportation Safety Board
• Organizational culture and safety: executive management policies and support
• Safety: bus operator training, defensive driver training
• Maintenance: mechanic training, preventive maintenance
• Operations: scheduling employees, equipment, and service
• Interview techniques/fatigue awareness
• Overview of the role and responsibilities of the collision investigator: tools, photography, field sketching, media relations, report writing, damage, debris and evidence analysis, tire marks, speed estimates, checklist
• Documentation and reporting, assembling the investigation
• Litigation and testimony
• Media relations

Who Should Attend

Invest. Plan Developers	Invest. Plan Administrators	Invest. Implementers
Final Report Assemblers	Executive Managers	Safety Managers
Safety Supervisors	Risk Managers	Human Resource Managers
Operations Managers	Operations Supervisors	Field Supervisors
Maintenance Managers	Maintenance Supervisors	Bus Operator Trainers

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• FUNDAMENTALS OF BUS COLLISION INVESTIGATION: FT00435

Length: 4-1/2 days
Materials Fee: $75
CEUs:  3.6

Course Overview

This course includes basic investigation tools and techniques relating to data collection, on-scene evidence documentation, damage and debris evidence analysis, witness interview techniques, computation of simple speed estimates, and report writing. Implementation of techniques learned can minimize transit agency liability and reduce the frequency and severity of collisions. This course requires working knowledge of basic high school algebra and involves homework assignments.

Course Elements

• Chain of events in a collision and investigator tools
• Center of mass and evaluating damage and debris
• Interpretation and measurement of marks on the road
• Vehicle lamp inspections
• General principles of collision investigation math and use of calculators
• Minimum speed estimates from skid marks and yaw marks
• Fatigue
• Interview techniques
• Principles of field sketching
• Photography
• Collision case preparation and presentation workshop
• Pretest, quizzes, homework, group presentations, final exam

Who Should Attend

Bus Operator Trainers	Collision Investigators	On-scene Investigators
Invest. Policy Developers	Invest. Policy Administrators	Reporting Personnel
Invest. Policy Implementers	Safety Managers	Safety Supervisors
Operations Supervisors	Risk Managers	Field Supervisors
Operations Managers	Maintenance Managers	Maintenance Supervisors

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• INTERMEDIATE PROBLEMS IN BUS COLLISION INVESTIGATION: FT00472

Length: 4-1/2 days
Materials Fee: $70
CEUs: 3.7

Course Overview

This course involves an extensive and intense calculation of complex speed estimates and mathematical formulas, including time and distance relationships. Participants will employ advanced collision investigation techniques and methodologies to identify and analyze skid marks, enhance photographic documentation, and identify contributing factors to injuries and damage, as they relate to speed in pedestrian, bus, automobile, and motorcycle collisions. The participants will get information needed to recommend and implement safety improvements to prevent and reduce collisions, including property damage, injuries, and litigation.

A packet of materials from the prerequisite Fundamentals course will be mailed to all registered participants 60 days prior to class date for their review. This course requires knowledge of high school algebra.

Course Prerequisite

Successful completion of FT00435 - Fundamentals of Bus Collision Investigation

Course Elements

• Chain of events in a collision and investigator tools
• Intermediate review package
• Combined speeds skids on consecutive and simultaneous surfaces
• Speed/Velocity conversions
• Airborne equations – falls, vaults, and trips
• Pedestrian collisions
• Motorcycles
• Field sketching and symbols
• Field investigation simulated trial
• Review field sketching; scaled diagram demonstration
• Field exercise: simulated collision and on-scene investigation
• Assembling investigation, case preparation
• Exercise: Field investigation and simulated court trial (plaintiffs, defendants, legal representation, bailiff, and judge), case presentation and testimony
• Pretest, quizzes, homework, group exercises, final exam

Who Should Attend

Safety Managers	Safety Supervisors	Operations Managers
Operations Supervisors	Field Supervisors	Maintenance Managers
Maintenance Supervisors	Bus Operator Trainers	Contributing Factor Assessors
Probable Cause Assessors	Documentation Assemblers	Court Witnesses

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• TRANSIT BUS SYSTEM SAFETY: FT00533

2.6 Continuing Education Units

Length: 4-1/2 days
Materials fee: $110

Course Overview

This course presents a formalized, standard approach to bus system safety concepts and program plans. Participants will receive instruction and guidance in developing and implementing a transit bus System Safety Program Plan which is critical to bus system safety.

Course Elements

• Core system safety elements; enhanced system safety elements suggested by the FTA
• Safety climate and the impact on safety performance
• Consequences of accidents and incidents; Heinrich Ratio
• System safety; System safety as a management discipline
• Management and engineering principles; Hazard identification and resolution
• Components of the system safety management process
• Roles and activities for the safety unit and safety committee
• Positive discipline techniques and incentive programs
• System Safety Program Plan (SSPP) Content Requirements
• Employee selection criteria
• Bus safety equipment
• Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS)
• Safety systems and devices
• Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA); Service animals vs. pets, Lift and ramp policies
• System security program
• Threat and vulnerability analyses
• Exercise: informal site audit
• Pretest, quiz, final exam

Who Should Attend

SSPP Developers	SSPP Implementers	SSPP Administrators
Transit Executive Managers	Human Resource Managers	Facility Managers
Risk Managers	Auditors	Design Engineering Vendors
Construction Vendors	Transit Consultants	Technology Vendors
Bus Transit Safety Managers	Safety Supervisors
Equipment Maint. Managers	Equipment Maint. Supervisors

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• INSTRUCTOR'S COURSE IN BUS OPERATOR TRAINING: FT00429

Length: 4 days
Materials Fee: $100

Course Overview

This instructor-led course provides a standardized training program that can be used by any transit service provider to train qualified, professional bus operators. Instructors are trained in presentation and creative learning techniques, facilitation methods, and adult learning principles for teaching operators skills in vehicle operation, emergency management, and customer relations. Upon completion of this course, instructors are qualified to train bus operators by the U. S. Department of Transportation. All bus operators trained by these instructors will receive U. S. Department of Transportation certificates from TSI upon receipt of a written request from the instructor and submission of the course evaluations and roster. Instructors will receive TSI course materials for vehicle operations, emergency management, and customer relations, plus road training guidelines. Included on the CD-ROM are all manuals, electronic slideset, quizzes, course evaluation, and certificate request form, authorized by the Federal Transit Administration.

Course Elements

• Teaching in various training environments, the trainer’s role
• Adult learning principles
• Delivery styles and methods, training aids, using multimedia equipment
• Facilitation skills, the art of questioning, managing class participation
• Team teaching, training strategies, the environment, class configuration
• Role-playing exercises and training presentations, self-evaluation
• Pretest, final exam

Who Should Attend

Driver Trainers	Safety Managers	Safety Supervisors
Bus Operator Trainers	Training Managers

NOTE: Individuals who successfully complete this course may register for the 1-day certification training to receive course materials for the paratransit operator training program and not attend the entire 4-day course. See following pages for additional course information.

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• INSTRUCTOR'S COURSE IN PARATRANSIT OPERATOR TRAINING: FT00530

Length: 4 days
Materials Fee: $200

Course Overview

This instructor-led course provides a standardized training program that can be used by paratransit service provider to train qualified, professional paratransit operators. Instructors are trained in presentation and creative learning techniques, facilitation methods, and adult learning principles for teaching operators skills in vehicle operation, emergency management, and customer relations. Upon completion of this course, instructors are qualified to train paratransit operators by the U. S. Department of Transportation. All paratransit operators trained by these instructors will receive U. S. Department of Transportation certificates from TSI upon receipt of a written request from the instructor and submission of the course evaluations and roster. Instructors will receive TSI course materials for vehicle operations, emergency management, and customer relations, plus road training guidelines. Included on the CD-ROM are all manuals, electronic slideset, quizzes, course evaluation, and certificate request form, authorized by the Federal Transit Administration.

Course Elements

• Teaching in various training environments, the trainer’s role
• Adult learning principles
• Delivery styles and methods, training aids, using multimedia equipment
• Facilitation skills, the art of questioning, managing class participation
• Team teaching, training strategies, the environment, class configuration
• Role-playing exercises and training presentations, self-evaluation
• Pretest, final exam presentations, self-evaluation

Who Should Attend

Driver Trainers	Safety Managers	Safety Supervisors
Paratransit Operator Trainers	Training Managers

NOTE: Individuals who successfully complete this course may register for the 1-day certification training to receive course materials for the bus operator training program and not attend the entire 4-day course. See following pages for additional course information.

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• 1-DAY BUS OPERATOR TRAINING CERTIFICATION: FT00541

Length: 1 day
Materials Fee: $100

Course Prerequisite

Successful completion of FT00530 - Instructor’s Course in Paratransit Operator Training

Course Overview

This course was designed for individuals who are already authorized to teach the Paratransit Operator Training Program through TSI. This allows the individual to receive the bus operator training course materials without having to attend the 4-day Instructor’s Course in Bus Operator Training (the first three days of either 4-day course are identical).

Upon completion of this course, instructors are qualified to train bus operators by the U. S. Department of Transportation. All bus operators trained by these instructors will receive U. S. Department of Transportation certificates from TSI upon receipt of a written request from the instructor and submission of the course evaluations and roster. Instructors will receive TSI course materials for vehicle operations, emergency management, and customer relations, plus road training guidelines. Included on the CD-ROM are all manuals, electronic slideset, quizzes, course evaluation, and certificate request form, authorized by the Federal Transit Administration. Technical support service is also available on request from TSI.

Course Elements

• Introduction to bus operator training course materials
• Installation, operation, and navigation of the bus operator program
• Demonstration of the slideset
• Pretest, final exam

Who Should Attend

TSI-certified Paratransit Operator Trainers

 

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• 1-DAY PARATRANSIT OPERATOR TRAINING CERTIFICATION: FT00542

Length: 1 day
Materials Fee: $200

Course Prerequisite

Successful completion of FT00429 - Instructor’s Course in Bus Operator Training

Course Overview

This course was designed for individuals who are already authorized to teach the Bus Operator Training Program through TSI. This allows the individual to receive the paratransit operator training course materials without having to attend the 4-day Instructor’s Course in Paratransit Operator Training (the first three days of either 4-day course are identical).

Upon completion of this course, instructors are qualified to train paratransit operators by the U. S. Department of Transportation. All paratransit operators trained by these instructors will receive U. S. Department of Transportation certificates from TSI upon receipt of a written request from the instructor and submission of the course evaluations and roster. Instructors will receive TSI course materials for vehicle operations, emergency management, and customer relations, plus road training guidelines. Included on the CD-ROM are all manuals, electronic slideset, quizzes, course evaluation, and certificate request form, authorized by the Federal Transit Administration. Technical support service is also available on request from TSI.

Course Elements

• Introduction to paratransit operator training course materials
• Installation, operation, and navigation of the paratransit operator program
• Demonstration of the slideset
• Pretest, final exam

Who Should Attend

TSI-certified Bus Operator Trainers

 

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• SAFETY EVALUATIONS OF ALTERNATIVE FUELS FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT: FT00460

Length: 3 days
Materials Fee: $50

Course Overvieww

This course offers safety awareness training in conducting safety evaluations for alternative-fueled vehicles, support equipment, and facilities using CNG, LNG, hydrogen, fuel cells, propane, ethanol, electricity, bio-diesel, and dual gas-diesel. The fuels specified in training are determined by the alternative fuel system of the host transit agency.

Course Elementss

• Alternative fuel benefits and fuel issues
• Properties and associated hazards
• Safety and risk fundamentals
• Health effects and dangers
• Regulatory authorities and resource agencies
• Static electricity; Site conditions; Tanks and cylinders
• Hazardous incidents
• Facilities: fueling, maintenance, storage
• Past incidents, transit system experiences, best practices
• Cost, efficiency and performance comparisons of various fuels
• Vehicle operational issues
• Trends in the future market
• Staff training
• Practical experience:
  o Field exercise: Safety audit/inspection of fueling site and transit facility using a safety checklist
  o Best practices: Sharing transit industry experiences and lessons learned, raising the level of safety awareness, and benefits of using alternative fuels
• Pretest, final exam

Who Should Attend

Bus Operators	Safety Managers	Mechanics
Alt Fuel Users	General Managers	Operations Managers
Alt Fuel Cylinder Mfg Reps	Procurement Specialists	Maintenance Supervisors
Alt Fuel Vehicle Reps

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• ALTERNATIVE FUEL CYLINDER INSPECTION: FT00539

Length: 1 day
Materials Fee: $115

Course Overview

This course provides information on visual inspections of alternative fuel cylinders. Upon successful completion, participants may forward their final exam to the Canadian Standards Association (CSA) for certification in visual inspections of alternative fuel cylinders.

Course Prerequisite

Successful completion of FT00460 - Safety Evaluations of Alternative Fuels Facilities and Equipment (completed January 2002 or later)

Course Elements

• CSA certification
• NFPA-52 considerations
• Cylinder handling
• Inspection procedures
• Inspection tools
• PRD and valves
• Cylinder defueling
• Alternative methods of inspection
• Pretest, final exam

Who Should Attend

Cylinder Damage Inspectors	Maintenance Managers	Maintenance Supervisors
Maintenance Technicians	Safety Personnel

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