From: Allan.Jones@k12.wa.us
Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 10:15 AM
To: Anna Esquibel
Subject: RE: Oxygen on a school bus concern
Yeah, I think so.
At least we should have it there
also.
See if you can figure out a way
to put it in … but with putting a placeholder in for the reference to the
requirement (WAC, Spec Manual, etc.)
ajj
Allan J Jones
Director of Transportation
OSPI
Assisting school districts in
providing safe, efficient transportation service to the students of Washington
State.
From: Anna Esquibel
[mailto:aesquibe@nwesd.org]
Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 10:08 AM
To: Allan Jones
Subject: RE: Oxygen on a school bus concern
We
could include it in the DITC Instructor’s Guide under Hauling Special
Needs
From:
Allan.Jones@k12.wa.us [mailto:Allan.Jones@k12.wa.us]
Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2011 4:49 PM
To: Anna Esquibel; Dan Payne; Jan Clarence; Mike Kenney
(mkenney@esd101.net); Randy Millhollen (office)
Subject: Oxygen on a school bus concern
Hi
I was talking to Mike Smith from the Dept of Health, who works with planning for emergencies.
He loved our inventory site and is distributing it to emergency folks statewide.
(he said it was the best in the country! Yea, us!)
Anyway, during the conversation, he pointed out that if school districts were asked to transport folks out of nursing homes, etc, … they would always want to have a medical person on the bus too. The example he used for why that was important was that some of those folks might be using oxygen.
He said that a medical trained person would know to make sure a window was open so that the oxygen didn’t build up and create a fire hazard.
Huh, I thought.
I wonder if people who are hauling kids do that.
I don’t think we have many … but it seems like Tacoma raised that question years ago.
Or someone.
So, if that is a good idea, where should we put it?
We can talk later.
Haven’t burnt up yet.
ajj
Allan J Jones
Director of Student Transportation
Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
PO Box 47200
Olympia WA 98504-7200
360-725-6120
Assisting school districts in providing safe, efficient transportation service to the students of Washington State.