OAR 419-480-0040. Secure Transportation Services: Staffing Requirements

(1) Employees, contractors, agents, and volunteers who transport a child in care shall have a valid driver’s license. The license must be the class of license, with any required endorsements, that permits the employee or volunteer to legally operate the vehicle or vehicles used for transporting children. (2) Employees, contractors, agents, and volunteers of secure transportation services providers shall comply with any and all applicable state and local permitting, registration or licensing requirements associated with providing secure transportation services in any jurisdiction in which the services are provided. (3) Employees, contractors, agents, and volunteers who have contact with any child in care or transport a child in care must have an approved background check per OAR 407-007-2000 to 407-007-0370; however, preliminary hiring, as described in OAR 407-007-0315, will not be permitted. (4) Employees, contractors, agents, and volunteers who transport a child in care shall be trained in the following: (a) Job duties and responsibilities; (b) The transportation services provider’s policies and procedures; (c) A nationally recognized safe driving training course within 90 days of the date of hire and at least every three years thereafter; (d) First aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation sufficient to retain a current certification; (e) Universal precautions (infection control guidelines designed to protect workers and clients from exposure to diseases spready by blood and certain body fluids); (f) Mandatory abuse reporting, approved by the Department, consistent with OAR 419-400-0120