"Al-Sheikh" leads the development of a "security" management of educational transport

Connect the service to strict standards and practical performance indicators and

Education Minister Hamad bin Mohammed Al-Sheikh pleaded for the creation of a special department for "safety and security" within the departments of Tatweer Educational Transport Services, the 39, the executive body of the Ministry of Education in the field of educational transport.

This was intended to raise the level of safety and security in the provision of school bus service and to strengthen its procedures and link them to strict and clear and clear standards and performance indicators.
The directive was issued during the minister's visit to the company's headquarters on Saturday in Riyadh, the capital, in the presence of several officials from the ministry and the company.

The new Safety and Security Department will perform a number of key tasks, including the development of policies and legislation for safety and security procedures in the educational transport service, as well as coordination with the authorities concerned to improve the level of safety in the school transport sector and to develop its services. From educational transportation service, and provide maximum standards of comfort and safety for them during school trips, in various areas of the kingdom and its towns and provinces and villages and abandonment.

During his visit, Al-Sheikh was informed of the level of services provided by the company and of the development plans that he implements throughout the school year, as well as the technical and technical equipment and work procedures in the operations room, as well as satellite school bus tracking to learn about their routes and the performance of their drivers.

As part of the pilot project, the Minister boarded a school bus to monitor students' ascent and descent, to inspect the specifications and equipment provided as part of this project, which would significantly strengthen the safety and security procedures of the school bus service.

During the summer holidays, Tatweer will increase the number of bus inspections in the field by intensifying its inspection and maintenance operations, eliminating violations of conditions and preparing them for the new academic year.

A pilot project to use AVL satellite tracking systems is planned to directly monitor the bus route and ensure that its driver is not violated.
The company is keen to periodically raise awareness of the importance of engaging in the implementation of safety and security procedures in service, in cooperation with the regional, governorate and city departments of education. Kingdom, as well as strengthen the conditions of the company with regard to the mechanism of selection of bus drivers and require operators to strictly apply, "For the designated pilots.

These measures are part of safety and security initiatives in the field of educational transport that the company is gradually and systematically implementing in cooperation and partnership with the authorities responsible for the sector.
For the Department of Education, Tatweer provides school transportation services to more than one million students in 25,000 buses and vehicles, making 50,000 trips per day, serving 15,000 schools and serving 47 departments of education, followed by 110 education offices.

The company provides services to more than 27,000 students with disabilities through more than 2,000 buses and vehicles making four thousand trips a day, in addition to the company's educational transportation service in the Red Strip Border Schools. south, comprising five departments of education "Asir – Obeida – South Dhahran – Jazan – boy – Najran".

The number of students benefiting from this service has reached more than 32,000 students, through 3,861 buses and vehicles carrying more than 9,960 trips per day, benefiting about 61 twinned schools on the southern border in the Green Zone and safe.