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Prices may vary depending on order size.
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Adult Drivers
Decide Smart, Arrive Safe
Copyright, 2005
Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Awareness Training for School Bus Drivers. Produced in cooperation with the pupil transportation industry and U.S. DOT for Operation Lifesaver, Inc. The purpose of this video is to make school bus drivers aware of the potential dangers that exist at highway-rail grade crossings, and the steps to ensure their own safety as well as the safety of students in their care. Teaching module (available October 2005) includes Instructor=s Guide, Student Notes, Safety Quiz, and video.
Audience: School bus drivers, Transportation and Education Directors, ect.
Length: 18:00 minutes
Cost: $10.00 (Video/DVD)
Emergency Response:Your Safety First
Copyright 2002
This video is designed to increase emergency responder safety around tracks and trains, especially when crossing tracks in response to incidents.
Audience: Fire fighters, ambulance drivers and other emergency responders.
Length: 10:30 minutes
Final Answer
Copyright 2000 by Chicago Metra
Railroad safety messages for student and adult drivers, delivered in a game show format.
Audience: Adult and High School (Grades 9-12)
Length: 18:00 minutes
Cost: $10.00 (Video Only)
It's Your Call: Increasing Judicial Awareness of Highway-Rail Safety
Copyright 2000
This video is designed to increase judicial awareness of their crucial role in reducing tragic incidents at highway-rail grade crossings and along railroad rights-of-way.
Audience: Judges and judicial community
Length: 11:40 minutes
Cost: $10.00 (Video Only)
It's Your Choice: Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Safety for Motorists
Copyright 2000 (Replaces No Exit and Paths of Thunder and Paths of Thunder II)
This video is designed to encourage safe behavior at highway-rail grade crossings and to discourage trespassing around railroad property and tracks.
Audience: Adult drivers, including professional crew drivers, and pedestrians
Length: 9:22 minutes
Cost: $10.00 (Video Only)
Roll Call: Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Safety
Copyright 1999
Targeted to law enforcement, this video takes a quick look at the life and death reasons for Operation Lifesaver's long-standing and strong partnership with law enforcement and its importance at highway-rail grade crossings in communities nationwide.
Audience: Law Enforcement
Length: 9:22 minutes
Cost: $10.00 (Video Only)
Sleddin' the Right Track
Copyright 1999
Targeted to snowmobilers, this video shows in no uncertain terms, why it is unsafe and potentially lethal to operate a snowmobile on or near railroad tracks.
Audience: Snowmobile clubs, companies who sell snowmobile equipment
Length: 12:30 minutes
Cost: $10.00 (Video Only)
You Can Make A Difference, Too
Copyright 2005
An introduction to Operation Lifesaver used for recruitment and orientation of new volunteers. Also familiarizes community groups with OL. Presenters from various professions, including firefighting, professional trucking, state police, light rail, school transportation and small business, are shown delivering the OL message to their peers. A bilingual Presenter addresses a community group in English and Spanish.
Audience: Potential Operation Lifesaver Presenters, normally from age 15 through retirement. This video is officially included in OLI's Presenter training program. Also used to introduce potential sponsors or other community partners to OL.
Length: 11:50 minutes
Your License or Your Life
Copyright 2000
Created as a replacement to Physics 101 after the tragedy at Bourbonnais, working with the Federal Highway Administration and the American Trucking Associations. New federal penalties issued in October 1999 changed the scope of this video and made its message even more meaningful for drivers nationwide. (New penalties can result in a professional driver losing the required Commercial Driving License for a minimum of 60 days and longer for subsequent violations.) Three members of ATA’s America’s Road Team narrate and participate in the video.
Audience: Professional Drivers
Length: 9:35 minutes
Cost: $35.00 Video with Training Module, including materials for Instructor and Driver, plus a Safety Quiz
For Young People
Are You in Control?
Copyright 2008
Audience: Middle School, Ages 10 - 13
Length: Approximately 11 minutes
Cost: $10.00
Format: VHS and DVD
Engages Middle School-aged students in a discussion about danger and risk related to tracks and trains. Several of their peers, who participate in stunt work in Hollywood and do sports like AAA hockey, kick boxing and advance gymnastics, perform and talk about why they choose safety. Their outdoor training center in Clarista, California, is a quarter mile from railroad tracks. One of the coaches, Tom Rosales, who performed in each of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, points out that it’s not possible to have control over a train.
Byron's Last Day
1997, Operation Lifesaver, Inc.
Final Answer
Copyright 2000 by Chicago Metra
Railroad safety messages for student and adult drivers, delivered in a game show format.
Audience: Adult and High School (Grades 9-12)
Length: 18:00 minutes
Cost: $10.00 (Video Only)
It's Your Choice: Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Safety for Motorists
Copyright 2000 (Replaces No Exit and Paths of Thunder and Paths of Thunder II)
This video is designed to encourage safe behavior at highway-rail grade crossings and to discourage trespassing around railroad property and tracks.
Audience: Adult drivers, including professional crew drivers, and pedestrians
Length: 9:22 minutes
Cost: $10.00 (Video Only)
Look to Live - Teen Driver Education
Copyright 2008
A fast-paced video incorporates six on-the-road scenarios that demonstrate the risk to teen drivers at highway-rail grade crossings and how to safely navigate these intersections. Dr. Todd Thoma, who directs a Level I Trauma Center at Louisiana State University, points out what can happen when drivers let their attention drift from the road “even for an instant.” He discusses how a crash impacts the human body and why teens have the highest rate of traffic incidents of any age group. Anna Pate, former Operation Lifesaver High School Speech Contest winner from Louisiana and an Operation Lifesaver Presenter, narrates the video.
It can be shown separately or along with the on-the-road segment.
Audience: Driver Education, ages 15 - 17
Length: Both parts together: 10:20 minutes (Scenarios, 7:40 minutes; Dr. Thoma, 2:40 minutes)
Cost: $10.00 (DVD/VHS)
Format: DVD recommended. Allows Presenter to pause after a particular scenario for discussion. VHS copies must be played to conclusion without stops.
Additional information on Look to Live
Sly Fox and Birdie
Produced 2006
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Sly Fox and Birdie, Operation Lifesaver’s train safety mascots, are back in a colorful new DVD with more adventures and safety tips for kids. Birdie and Sly Fox discover why tracks and trains are no place to play. There’s also a new train safety rap song that entertains as it reinforces important safety messages.
Audience: Grades K - 3
Length: 10:00 minutes
Cost: Ranges from $5.00 - $10.00. See vendor websites for details. |
Sly Fox and Birdie
Produced 1992 (Also available in Spanish)
Off Limits: Don't Get Caught Dead In Your Tracks
Copyright 1995. Revised 2001
Produced for Norfolk Southern Corporation, this video dramatically reenacts four trespassing violations experienced and told by the railroad engineers who lived through them. Featured are a group of teens who drink and then fall asleep on the tracks; a hunter walking along a trestle who narrowly escapes a tragedy; a teenage girl walking on the track who fails to hear the train whistle because she is wearing an audio headset; and two young boys whose minibike gets stuck on the track and who jump clear in the nick of time. The message is clearly stated: It’s against the law to trespass on railroad property.
Audience: Older High School Students - Adults. This video involves teen drinking. Please review with teacher if this video will be shown to any students.
Length: 20:00 minutes
Tracks Are For Trains, Not For Kids
Copyright 2001
A teaching video produced by Michigan Operation Lifesaver for elementary school students in which three young people and the narrator meet a railroad engineer, a conductor, police officers and a school bus driver, all showing students why “Tracks are for Trains – Not for Kids!”
Audience: K-4 Grades
Length: 8:00 minutes
Training Modules
Decide Smart, Arrive Safe
Copyright, 2005
Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Awareness Training for School Bus Drivers. Produced in cooperation with the pupil transportation industry and U.S. DOT for Operation Lifesaver, Inc. The purpose of this video is to make school bus drivers aware of the potential dangers that exist at highway-rail grade crossings, and the steps to ensure their own safety as well as the safety of students in their care.
Audience: School bus drivers, Transportation and Education Directors, ect.
Length: 18:00 minutes
Cost: $10.00 (Video/DVD)
Format: Module with Video and Training Kit, or Video, DVD or CD only. Teaching module includes Instructor’s Guide, Student Notes, Safety Quiz and video.
Look to Live - Teen Driver Education
Copyright 2008
A fast-paced video incorporates six on-the-road scenarios that demonstrate the risk to teen drivers at highway-rail grade crossings and how to safely navigate these intersections. Dr. Todd Thoma, who directs a Level I Trauma Center at Louisiana State University, points out what can happen when drivers let their attention drift from the road “even for an instant.” He discusses how a crash impacts the human body and why teens have the highest rate of traffic incidents of any age group. Anna Pate, former Operation Lifesaver High School Speech Contest winner from Louisiana and an Operation Lifesaver Presenter, narrates the video.
It can be shown separately or along with the on-the-road segment.
Audience: Driver Education, ages 15 - 17
Length: Both parts together: 10:20 minutes (Scenarios, 7:40 minutes; Dr. Thoma, 2:40 minutes)
Cost: $10.00 (DVD/VHS)
Format: DVD recommended. Allows Presenter to pause after a particular scenario for discussion. VHS copies must be played to conclusion without stops.
Additional information on Look to Live
Die Hard if You're Dumb - Railroad Safety for Teens
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