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COVID-19: What Bus Transit Operators Need to Know

by Samer Daud, from the Community

This checklist helps bus transit operators reduce COVID-19 risks with practical steps for distancing, rear-door boarding, and avoiding high-touch surfaces. It covers routine cleaning and disinfection of driver areas, proper hand hygiene, and when to sanitize. Employer guidance includes creating a health and safety plan, flexible sick leave, training, providing PPE and disinfectants that meet EPA criteria, posting hygiene reminders, coordinating with public health, and following CDC guidance.

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COVID-19 Bus Transit Operators Need to Know Checklist

This checklist helps bus transit operators reduce COVID-19 risk. It covers distancing passengers from drivers, rear-door boarding, avoiding high-touch surfaces, glove use, routine cleaning and disinfection of cockpits and handrails, and strict hand hygiene. It also outlines employer responsibilities, including creating a COVID-19 safety plan, installing partitions or visual cues, flexible sick leave, appointing a contact person, staff training, providing soap, sanitizer and wipes, using EPA-approved disinfectants, clear signage, and coordination with public health guidance.

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Ohio Mass Transit COVID-19 Checklist

This checklist from the Ohio Department of Health outlines practical COVID-19 prevention measures for mass transit and other transportation providers. It covers policies on face coverings and PPE for employees and passengers, clear traveler signage, added hand sanitizing stations, and creating physical distance with barriers, floor markers, and contactless payments. It recommends HVAC controls, routine laundering of uniforms, and enhanced cleaning of high-touch areas in vehicles and facilities using EPA-approved disinfectants. Guidance also includes providing soap and hand sanitizer, supplies for surface disinfection, and tissues with no-touch disposal. Operators should set schedules that enable frequent handwashing, and adopt flexible, non-punitive sick leave to ensure ill staff stay home.

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COVID-19 Employer Compliance Checklist

This COVID-19 employer compliance checklist helps construction and field teams implement workplace health measures during the pandemic. It covers posting COVID-19 guidelines, providing and training on PPE, handwashing instructions and wash stations, site access controls and visitor restrictions, cleaning and decontamination routines, no congregation and social distancing practices, meeting and crew protocols, restroom sanitation and supplies, hygiene reminders, stay-home-when-sick policies, single-occupant travel to sites, and appropriate PPE where distancing is not possible. Use it to document compliance and assign responsibilities across jobsites.

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COVID-19 Prevention and Work Practice Controls Checklist

Use this checklist to prevent COVID-19 transmission on jobsites and in offices. It outlines worker responsibilities (hand hygiene, respiratory etiquette, symptom reporting), cleaning and disinfecting of high-touch surfaces, tool and equipment hygiene, minimizing shared items, trailer and restroom servicing, waste handling, and required PPE such as gloves and eye protection. Follow CDC and EPA guidance when selecting disinfectants and return-to-work criteria. Capture notes and sign-off on completion.

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COVID-19: What Bus Transit Operators Need to Know

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