October 2016
This month¡¯s is about a school-wide intervention with a rural primary school to address the safety of students when boarding school buses and crossing roads.
The narrative describes a cross-section of responses across all three components of the whole school approach. Police worked with a range of partners besides the school, including the bus companies, road controlling authority and media. As a result, there is now a new bus pick-up point, a better trained school patrol, improved visibility on the road, and a more safety-conscious community.
A lesson learned from this intervention is that the goals could have been written in SMART format. So the goal ¡®the speed of traffic outside the school will be reduced¡¯ would look more like: ¡®the number of vehicles on [name of road] exceeding [kph] on [days of week] between [times] will reduce from [number taken from baseline data] to [number desired] over [length of period for behavior change to occur]¡¯.