Content
The menu bar on every page give you choices of:
The 15 Nova Scotia school bus safety rules; a web page for each rule.
A toolbox containing my pick of valuable policy/procedure documents from my employer CCRSB, links to specific information from external sites, and summaries I have found useful.
A Contact / Store group of pages has information about me and items for sale with my email address.
Links open a new window: I have chosen to have Adobe Acrobat files and other outside web sites open each in a new separate window. This leaves schoolbusdays still open on your desktop under the outside links.
Please contribute to the accuracy and usefulness of this project by sending me your thoughts, interpretations, stories, and criticism. Use the email link found on the Store page.
Web site goals and cautions:
January 24, 2010
My employer is the Chignecto-Central Regional School Board 
(hereafter referred to as CCRSB). The school board is regulated by the Utility and Review Board of the Province of Nova Scotia.
CCRSB's “School Bus Safety Code of 1999” says, and I quote:
page 1: “The Pupil Transportation Department of the Chignecto-Central Regional School Board subscribes to the idea that the principles of a School Bus Safety Code must be visibly practiced on a high level among all professional school bus drivers because of the unique responsibility associated with the development of youth.”page 3: “Bus safety rules are not a list of punishments or demonstration of power, but guidelines to help maintain a safe environment in our transportation system.”
page 9, in the section “Tips to Drivers” says, and I quote: “Take time to review the Safety Code with students.”
I believe this means I am responsible 
to:
1. communicate the rules of safety and good behaviour to my passengers
2. show that I care for my passengers' safety by insist that the rules are important, and by pointing out any unsafe practices on the school bus.
3. after all this, when safety rules are still disregarded, I must proceed 
with discipline as set out in CCRSB policy.
4. and I must never give up building a safe place on the school bus.
When I began to study and train to be a school bus driver, guidelines for how to interpret the Nova Scotia safety rules were not documented. This web site began that process. Although I am an employee of a school board, this web site is my personal initiative and responsibility. If the text is indented, an orange color, smaller and bold, this means that text is a quote directly from policy. My interpretation of policy is usually found in the blue sidebar. Other school bus drivers may interpret policy differently than I do. If you are a school bus driver, and you want your interpretation included in this web site, please email me using the link on the Store page. If you are a parent whose student travels on a school bus that is not CCRSB Celtic #168W, please ask their driver for their interpretation.
CCRSB policy means I cannot publish to the web, a student's first, last, or nick name; or a photo of them, without their parents written permission.