RTSD Offers Safe Back to School Tips For Students, Parents, Staff

WAYNE, PA – The Radnor Township School District is committed to keeping its community safe, and the District's Workplace Safety Committee is offering tips to the RTSD community to ensure a safe 2017-2018 school year.

The committee provided tips for students, parents, and staff.

See the tips below.

Tips for parents:

• Give yourself and your kids plenty of time
• Don't allow your child to be at school any earlier than 15 minutes prior to the start of school
• Always use child safety seats and safety belts correctly
• Children should enter and leave the car on its curbside
• Choose the safest route between home and school and practice walking it with children
• Check with your school principal to make sure bicycles are allowed
• Pick your child up on time so they aren't waiting unattended
• Make sure students who drive themselves to school are fully aware of all traffic and safety rules

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Tips for students:

• When walking
  • Use the same route every day — avoid short cuts and drainage canals;
  • Walk with friend;
  • Obey all traffic laws;
  • Walk — don't run — across intersections;
  • Go straight home after school;
  • Avoid talking to strangers;
  • If a stranger approaches, tell a trusted adult such as a parent or teacher;
  • Never get into a vehicle without parent permission.

• When riding the bus
  • Stay out of the street — don't horseplay while waiting;
  • Do not distract the driver;
  • Stay seated — keep head and arms inside the bus at all times;
  • Don't walk in the driver's blind spot;
  • Wait for the bus to come to a complete stop before getting on or off.

• When riding a bicycle
  • Always wear a helmet;
  • Know and use appropriate hand signals;
  • Stay on the right-hand side of the road — ride in the same direction as traffic.

Tips for staff:

• Remember good lifting techniques when setting up your rooms;
• Be observant to summer custodial duties, such as waxed floors or room contents moved into the corridors;
• Be observant to summer maintenance work areas;
• If you have any phone, internet, key, access or ID concerns notify your office so that the appropriate supporting department can resolve them.
  

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