Passenger safety, seat belts, emergency exits and evacuation (Passasjersikkerhet)
Passenger safety, seat belts, emergency exits and evacuation (Passasjersikkerhet)
This domain tests your responsibility for passengers before, during and after an incident.
Core rules
- Where seat belts are fitted, passengers must use them. You must tell passengers to belt up, and check that children and wheelchair users are secured. Standing passengers are allowed only in buses designed and approved for standing; never carry standees on a coach or at high speed.
- Know every exit: service doors, emergency door, roof hatches, window hammers. Know the manual release for the emergency door and how to operate the door-brake override from inside and outside.
- Wheelchair spaces need the wheelchair brake on, a lap/shoulder belt or approved restraint, and the aisle kept clear. Luggage and buggies must not block exits.
- Evacuation: stop safely, engine off, parking brake on, hazard lights on. Open the most upwind exit, lead passengers 50–100 m away from the bus and upwind of smoke, then count them. Call 110 for fire, 113 for medical emergency.
- Do not let passengers collect luggage before evacuation.
Worked example
Smoke comes from the rear engine compartment. Stop, switch off, apply the parking brake, open the front door and the emergency door if needed. Keep the engine cover closed. Lead passengers upwind, count them against the passenger number, and call 110. If someone is missing, tell the fire service; do not re-enter a smoke-filled bus.
Traps
Not knowing the emergency door release; letting passengers block the aisle with bags; evacuating downwind; and forgetting to count passengers. Also check that the fire extinguisher is in its bracket and in date.