Safety and health in schools

Abstract

Safety and health in a school is about employing a sensible and proportionate measure to identify and evaluate potential risks, and areas of weakness, capable of adversely affecting the school system. Objectives: To relate physical environment with safety and health in schools; and to study how risk assessments in schools can help in risk and hazard rectification. Methodology: A descriptive study, theoretical analysis. Results and discussion: A school-based risk assessment is one of the important approaches for improving safety and health conditions in schools. Therefore it has a significant role in protecting school employees and students against hazards in the physical environment. Conclusion: Although safety aspects are mainly emphasized in most schools, however, the health-related concerns that ensue from implementing those safety rules where workers’ individual attributes in which human factors aspects should be taken into concern.