Comprehensive school safety policy: A global baseline survey

Paci-Green, Rebekah; Varchetta, Adriana; McFarlane, Kate; Iyer, Padmini; Goyeneche, Marcel

doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2019.101399

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“…As stated previously in the introduction section, organizations’ safety policies, procedures, and practices must be measured regularly, which reflects management commitment to safety. Generally, the development, fund, and implementation of policies should be comprehensive with local to national scale interdisciplinary efforts [ 105 ]. The remaining influencing factors on safety climate received a rating level of “important” based on their ranked mean scores.…”

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Safety Climate Perceptions in the Construction Industry of Saudi Arabia: The Current Situation

Mosly

Makki

2020

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Workers’ wellbeing and safety is important in the construction industry due to the high risk of accidents. Safety climate development is a positive initial step toward raising the safety levels of construction practitioners. This study aims at revealing the factors influencing safety climate perceptions in the construction industry of Saudi Arabia. A set of extracted factors from the literature was validated and used to design a comprehensive questionnaire survey. Data was collected from 401 personnel working on 3 large construction project sites in Saudi Arabia. Descriptive statistics and the crosstabulation algorithm, Kendall’s tau-b correlation test, were used to analyze the data. The study revealed a set of 13 factors influencing safety climate perceptions, which are: Supervision, guidance and inspection, appraisal of risks and hazards, social security and health insurance, workmate influences, management safety justice, management commitment to safety, education and training, communication, workers’ safety commitment, workers’ attitude toward health and safety, workers’ involvement, supportive environment, and competence. The results also indicate the significant and anticipated role of top management in safety climate at sites. Implications of this study include assisting construction industry stakeholders to better understand and enhance safety climate, which in turn will lead to improved safety behavior, culture, motivation, and performance.

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Safety Climate Perceptions in the Construction Industry of Saudi Arabia: The Current Situation

Mosly

Makki

2020

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“…The third law is the School Health and Safety Act , which instructs a political framework called “School Safety” that schools develop throughout all of their activities under the guidance of MEXT. The Comprehensive School Safety Framework, endorsed through the Global Alliance for Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience in the Education Sector (GADRRRES), encourages schools to develop a School Safety Plan structured in three main pillars: (a) safe learning facilities, (b) school disaster management, and (c) risk reduction assessment and resilience education [ 26 ].…”

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The Japanese Educational System as an International Model for Urban Resilience

Gavari-Starkie

Casado-Claro

Navarro-González³

2021

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Global cities in the context of accelerated urbanization have to deal with more diverse risk factors than ever before, which highlights the need for a faster and more creative response capacity. Although it is necessary to strengthen technical systems, since they are surrounded by human systems, individual resilience will help to strengthen the community. The educational system is key to developing the human factor in a world where various systems in global cities are increasingly interconnected, which in turn increases risks. Japan is fostering a culture of disaster risk reduction in both the formal, non-formal, and informal education sectors, in which creativity and autonomy are key competencies. Tokyo is the highest populated metropolitan area globally, and its educational system is the international model for education in disaster risk reduction. Urban areas around the world face similar challenges and experience similar needs. This article addresses the challenges that the human factor faces in large cities and the possibilities of increasing resilience in both individuals and communities through Disaster Resilience Education (DRE), taking the Japanese educational system as a model.

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“…During the pandemic, the education systems have been affected due to health issues, and having a safe school environment has turned to be an essential issue in schools. On the other hand, the integration of technology into learning activities plays a great role to increase the awareness of the concept of safety in the practice (McBrayer et al, 2020;Packy-Green et al, 2020). Huang et al give insights on open educational resources during school closures (Huang et al, 2020).…”

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Learning Through Digital Stories for Safe School Environment

Akdağ

Altınay

2021

Front. Psychol.

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This study aimed to evaluate the impact of digital stories in the learning-based themes of safe schools and to examine the perceptions of special educational needs in safe school environments. Training were carried out with informative videos created through the Distance Education and Information Technology Center (UZEBIM) for principals and teachers-in-charge, and the effectiveness of this process was evaluated through reflective opinion forms. In addition to this, an evaluation form was presented to the prospective special education teachers to obtain their opinions and evaluate the effectiveness of digital stories at safe schools. A total of 100 prospective teachers participated in the evaluation of the impact of digital stories on their learning about safe school environments. Digital stories regarding safe schools become an important source of information in creating a safe school environment more rapidly and efficiently. In line with the interviews, it was observed that the awareness of safe school environments was increased and the digital dimensions of safe school environments were internalized through digital stories. Due to the raising awareness in the COVID-19 process, it was revealed that the schools did not have sufficient safe school characteristics and all stakeholders should take preventive measures in coordination to establish a safe school environment.

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Comprehensive school safety policy: A global baseline survey

Cited by 30 publications

References 18 publications

Safety Climate Perceptions in the Construction Industry of Saudi Arabia: The Current Situation

Safety Climate Perceptions in the Construction Industry of Saudi Arabia: The Current Situation

The Japanese Educational System as an International Model for Urban Resilience

Learning Through Digital Stories for Safe School Environment

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