Safe school travel (SafeST)
Each year, a number of students are injured as they travel to and from school. Queensland Transport is committed to reducing student injuries and fatalities through the Safe School Travel (SafeST) package.
SafeST is a collection of programs, schemes and initiatives designed to improve transport safety for all children regardless of whether they walk, cycle or travel as passengers in buses or cars.
The latest version of the School environment safety guidelines (PDF**, 908KB), provides more than 1700 Queensland schools with an easy-to-use tool needed to make school road environments safer for children. The guidelines are also available below split into two parts:
To find out more, contact your local road safety advisor.
Three new related downloads are available below:
- National guidelines for the risk assessment of school transport routes (PDF**, 18KB)
- Guide to the management of rural school bus routes and bus stops (PDF**, 233KB)
- Trial of seat belts on school buses—final report (PDF**, 93.8KB).
For a history of the program, view the background.
Also available split into two parts:
Learn simple safe school travel tips—for motorists, families with school children, andstudents who drive to school.
We all have a role to play in school road safety, and with a little extra care, the roads can be safer for children.
**While this department has taken every possible precaution with the creation of these files, they are downloaded and used at your own risk. Adobe Reader is needed to open and print Portable Document Format (PDF) files and is free to download from http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html. Various tools to enable access to these files for people using a screen reader can be found at http://access.adobe.com. Further information is available from the"Help with downloading, reading and printing PDF".
Last updated 10 April 2009
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