You Can Make a Difference
Help us end tragedy on the rails: Get involved. Become an Illinois Operation Lifesaver volunteer! Each year more than 300,000 people in Illinois -- including school children, drivers education students, school bus operators, professional truck drivers, law enforcement, emergency responders, state fair attendees and members of civic organizations -- receive Operation Lifesaver safety messages from an OL-trained and certified Presenter or Associate.
If you enjoy public speaking and would like to tell people about safety around the rails, consider becoming an Operation Lifesaver Presenter. To become a nationally certified Operation Lifesaver presenter, you must attend a presenter course taught by an Operation Lifesaver instructor and successfully pass the course.
The course is free to the public. Once you have passed the course, you will give a presentation to be monitored by a certified Operation Lifesaver presenter. After receiving an acceptable rating on this presentation, you will be certified as a presenter, you will be required to give four presentations within one calendar year of your first monitored presentation.
OL volunteers are people from all walks of life: locomotive engineers and other train crew members, teachers, retirees, health professionals, police officers, truck drivers, students and maybe even you! If you want to be part of the solution here in Illinois and want to get involved click on: Contact your state coordinator for more information on becoming an Operation Lifesaver volunteer.
