How to Find a Safe Bus Step Stool

When you're looking at the step stool placed before boarding a bus, do you ever wonder if this step stool is safe or not? Let's inspect one of the step stools buses use and why they choose it. There are some metal step stools that are being used by the buses. These are made of square metal tubes welded to a metal frame with legs that have rubber pads on the bottom. At first look, this step stool seems sturdy, but if we examine it closely, you may find that these bus step stools are not as safe as they should be.

Legs are not necessary for a bus step stool to be safe. Why is that so? Because there are lots of horrifying stories those buses drivers are repeatedly telling me that they see with their own eyes, like watching visually impaired seniors who couldn’t clearly see the top of the bus step stool and put their foot under the step stool instead of on top. You just can't imagine how scary that would be for your seniors to experience.

Another thing that's not good about the legs of the step stool is that, it's the weakest part of it, and because as it wears, the legs tend to bend making it unstable. Or the welds that hold the step stool together will crack, allowing the step stool to wobble and eventually endanger someone who is using it.

So now, try to be more aware in inspecting for a safe step stool for the buses. Do you think this step stool can hold a very, very large or heavy person? If it is a wooden step stool made for a child, well maybe not. So, you must look for a load rating on the step stool. Because if it doesn't have a load rating on it, how you will know how much weight a step stool will carry? You cannot just try any step stool without such important information. We can't invite accidents. So be careful! Choose the safest bus step stool.

David C. DuPont has been finding solutions to step stool problems for 9 years. He has helped people solve their problems by helping them find bus step stools, kitchen step stools, wooden step stools, kids step stools, plastic step stools and step stools for senior citizens. To see his step stools or to contact him to find a stepstool for you, go to www.Shure-Step.com

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