Bus Stop Safety Audit Checklist
A safety audit checklist for inspecting school bus stops, covering visibility, lighting, pavement condition, signage, and proximity to hazards.
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Greenwood International School BUS STOP SAFETY AUDIT Stop: [stop_name] Route: Route 7 Audit Date: 2026-09-01 Auditor: [auditor_name] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SAFETY CHECKLIST VISIBILITY □ Clear sightlines for approaching bus (20m minimum) □ No obstructions blocking driver view of waiting students □ Students visible to passing traffic □ Crosswalk/zebra crossing available if needed LIGHTING □ Adequate lighting during winter morning/evening hours □ Street light functioning □ Stop area well-lit PAVEMENT & SURFACE □ Paved waiting area (not grass/mud) □ No potholes or trip hazards □ Drainage adequate (no standing water) □ Wheelchair accessible if required SIGNAGE □ Bus stop sign present and visible □ Route number displayed □ School name visible HAZARDS □ No proximity to blind corners □ No proximity to construction zones □ Safe distance from road (1.5m minimum) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FINDINGS Overall rating: □ Safe □ Requires improvement □ Unsafe Issues identified: [Describe any issues found] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ RECOMMENDED ACTIONS • [Action 1] • [Action 2] Auditor Signature: _________________ Date: _________
About This Template
A checklist of each stop: visibility, lighting, crossing, waiting area and hazards, with remedial actions and dates.
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Topics this template covers: bus stop audit · safety audit · transport safety · stop inspection
How to Use This Template
Set Audit Date and Auditor Name, then walk each stop and complete Safety Checklist on site — visibility, lighting, crossing distance, waiting area, traffic speed. Record Stop Name/Location and Route Number precisely.
Write Audit Findings for each hazard and Recommended Actions with an owner and target date. Repeat the audit every term or after nearby roadworks, and keep prior sheets to show governors that findings were closed, not merely filed.
When to Use This Template
End-of-term reporting
Assemble attendance figures, highlights and action points into one consistent document for leadership or governors at the close of a term.
Ad-hoc status updates
Need to report on a transport review or parent survey on short notice? Fill in the same sections and send a document people already know how to read.
Comparing results term over term
Keep the section headings identical between terms so leadership can compare attendance, outcomes and initiatives side by side without rebuilding the structure each time.
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