Bus Driver Active Shooter Training

 

$7,995 Per Course

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This 4-hour program is designed for up to 35 school bus drivers and up to 50 total attendees to include dispatchers and other transportation department employees. KSL, Inc. Tactical Driving Training Team includes 4 current and retired officers and supervisors from The California Highway Patrol (CHP) with over 100 combined years of experience. This program includes response options for bus drivers to react safely to an emergency both on and off the bus as well as best practices for communication between the bus driver, dispatcher, and a 911 operator. The course also includes a slow speed driving course and the nationally recognized certified training program, “Stop the Bleed.”

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KSL, Inc. is responsible for providing all equipment including fire extinguishers, portable radios, signs in English and Spanish, mobile hand sanitizing stations, training aides, and any other necessary equipment. KSL, Inc. is also responsible for sending subject matter expert consultants to the training to instruct your staff. This site-specific training program is recognized statewide and is being utilized by state, county, and municipal agencies, and departments. This program is also utilized by numerous California school districts.

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At the end of each event, all participants will be given an electronic course survey to complete. The surveys will be compiled into a single after-action report. The report will be provided to the client within 30 days following the training event. The after-action report includes a detailed course evaluation from each attendee and site-specific information and recommendations for each location.

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Program will include:

• 4-Hour MOT/Bus Driver Training. Instructors provide lectures, discussions, and role-playing exercises to guide participants in preventing and responding to potential emergencies on or near a school bus. 

• 4 to 5-member instructor team will provide a custom training outline with multiple site-specific scenario stations to include:

 

1. Introduction.  Overview of safety solutions to control the risk; manage and address an active threat in the workplace. The introduction includes nationally recognized principles when responding to an active threat scenario (RUN, HIDE, FIGHT) and suggestions for responses during and after a school crisis. 

2. Stop the Bleed. Our instructors teach you using training materials specially developed to teach bleeding control techniques. You will practice three different life-saving bleeding control techniques.

3. Situational Awareness.  Attendees learn how to recognize threats from a distance, implement physical responses through the OODA loop concept, and/or identify available options.

4. Bus Stop Scenario.  Attendees learn how to effectively respond during an emergency while the bus is at a stop or parked. The attendees learn what response options and resources are best for each situation.  

5. Moving Bus Scenario. This slow speed (less than 15 mph) course gives drivers additional response options to various emergencies, including an armed or violent passenger on the bus while it is in motion.

6. Improvised Weapons.  Instructors demonstrate how to use available items (i.e., fire extinguishers) as possible improvised weapons. Attendees learn active resistance and other personal survival recommendations. Instructors discuss and demonstrate practical applications.

7. Radio Communications. Drivers and dispatchers will learn best practices for communicating with each other and 911 operators during an emergency.

8. Live Drill.  Attendees will have the opportunity to participate in a live drill to self-assess learned skills.

9. Law Enforcement Response.  Instructors demonstrate local law enforcement procedures, objectives, and physical responses following a report of an active threat on a bus.