Education

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Duncan Fairgrieve ◽  
Dan Squires QC
Keyword(s):  
Physical Health ◽  
Learning Difficulties ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Educational Needs ◽  
County Council ◽  
Reasonable Care ◽  
General Duty ◽  
Taking Care

It has long been established that schools owe a duty to look after the physical health and safety of their pupils. The duty imposed on schools has since been extended to taking care of the ‘educational needs’ of pupils. This has led to the imposition of liability in cases of ‘educational negligence’. These cases have tended to involve a failure to diagnose and treat learning difficulties, though the courts have made clear that schools are under a general duty to ensure that reasonable care is taken in the provision of education. As Lord Browne-Wilkinson noted in X v Bedfordshire County Council, ‘the education of the pupil is the very purpose for which the child goes to the school’ and the school thus has a duty to ensure that the child’s educational needs are met, and not just that he or she is physically safe while at school.

THE LIABILITY OF SCHOOLS FOR BULLYING

2002 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-294
Author(s):  
Jesse Elvin
Keyword(s):  
Health And Safety ◽  
Educational Needs ◽  
County Council ◽  
Duty Of Care ◽  
London Borough ◽  
Sussex County ◽  
Reasonable Care ◽  
Borough Council ◽  
Court Of Appeal

InBradford-Smart v. West Sussex County Council [2002] EWCA Civ 07, Leah Bradford-Smart, a former pupil of a school maintained by West Sussex County Council, based her claim for damages for psychiatric injury and consequent loss on the school’s failure to prevent fellow pupils bullying her outside the school. It is clear that “a school is under a duty to take reasonable care for the health and safety of the pupils in its charge” (Van Oppen v. Clerk to Bedford Charity Trustees [1990] 1 W.L.R. 235, 250), and that it also assumes responsibility for a pupil’s educational needs (X v. Bedfordshire County Council [1995] 2 A.C. 633, 766, per Lord Browne-Wilkinson; Phelps v. Hillingdon London Borough Council [2000] 2 A.C. 619). In Bradford-Smart, the Court of Appeal held that a school is generally responsible for its pupils only when they are inside the school, but that exceptional circumstances might arise when failing to take reasonable steps to combat bullying occurring outside the school would give rise to a breach of its duty of care to a pupil.

Associations Between Workplace Violence, Mental Health, and Physical Health among Korean Workers: The Fifth Korean Working Conditions Survey

2021 ◽  
pp. 216507992110238
Author(s):  
Hae Ran Kim
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Physical Health ◽  
Shift Work ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Workplace Violence ◽  
Physical Violence ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Verbal Abuse ◽  
Safety Education ◽  
Mental And Physical Health

Background: Workplace violence (WPV) is a global public health problem and a threat to the health of Korean workers. This study assessed the prevalence and risk factors of WPV and its association with mental and physical health among Korean workers. Methods: Data obtained for 50,205 respondents to the Fifth Korean Working Conditions Survey were utilized for this study. Verbal abuse, threats, physical violence, and sexual harassment were assessed individually and as a composite for “any WPV.” Workers were characterized by education, income, shift work status, access to a health and safety education program, work sector and overall health. Descriptive analyses and multiple logistic regression analyses were used to estimate the prevalence of WPV and its association with mental and physical health. Findings: Overall, 5.6% of workers reported experiencing one of four forms of WPV. The prevalence of verbal abuse, threats, physical violence, and sexual harassment were 4.9%, 0.7%, 0.2%, and 1.1%, respectively. Most perpetrators were customers. Prevalence of WPV was associated with lower education level, poor health status, long working hours, shift work, and no experience of health and safety education; 9.0% of service workers experienced violence. Workers who had experienced WPV were more likely to experience anxiety, sleep-related problems, depressive symptoms, back pain, headache/eye strain, and overall fatigue. Conclusions/Applications to Practice: Workplace violence is a serious occupational and public health concern in Korea. These results suggest managing WPV may improve workers’ well-being and that violence-prevention strategies, policies, and regulations should be implemented across most industries.

Fifty years ago: ‘The scope of occupational medicine in a university health service’

2020 ◽  
pp. 202-203
Author(s):  
Anthony Ryle
Keyword(s):  
Health Service ◽  
Physical Health ◽  
Occupational Medicine ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Academic Achievements ◽  
The Past ◽  
Selection Of

This series provides a selection of articles from the past. In Fifty years ago: The scope of occupational medicine in a university health service Anthony Ryle briefly explores the potential role of a University Health Service in relation to students’ academic achievements and failures, rather than their physical health and safety.

DELIVERING OIL SPILL HEALTH AND SAFETY TRAINING FOR BEACH CLEANUP: INNOVATIVE ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AT WORK1

1995 ◽  
Vol 1995 (1) ◽  
pp. 539-542
Author(s):  
Paul Penn
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Oil Spill ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Educational Needs ◽  
Safety Training ◽  
Traditional Classroom ◽  
Effective Training ◽  
Oil Spill Cleanup

ABSTRACT The California Conservation Corps provides trained workers for oil spill cleanup. Delivering effective training that exceeds the requirements of applicable regulations and meets the educational needs of the students has necessitated minimizing the traditional classroom component and introducing nontraditional educational methodologies into the curriculum.

scholarly journals THE CONTENT AND PROCESS OF NATURAL SCIENCES EDUCATION OF STUDENTS WITH SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-17
Author(s):  
Angelija Mačiukaitė
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
Learning Difficulties ◽  
Educational Needs ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Special Educational Needs ◽  
Science Textbooks ◽  
Education Change ◽  
Education Of Students

The transformation of the classical school into a humanistic one, which started in the last decade of the 20th century, has accelerated a lot in the present century. How did the content and the process of natural sciences education change for students with special educational needs (SEN)? The research reviews documents, research literature and textbooks for students with SEN; it deals with the issues of organizing the process and content of their education and self-education. Adapted natural science textbooks for primary and high school are suitable for students with learning difficulties, disorders or mild learning difficulties. Textbooks for students with SEN partly satisfy the needs of these students. However, it would be useful to write natural science textbooks of a lower degree of difficulty for the students whose SEN are big or very big due to the moderate learning difficulties. Research carried out in the process of natural sciences (self-) education enables to make images directly, while students understand and start using the concepts in various contexts through action during the experiment, through observation and performing practical tasks. Keywords: students with special educational needs (SEN), natural sciences education, the process of (self-) education, textbooks.

The Content of the Educational Function in the Family

2021 ◽  
pp. 44-49
Author(s):  
A. Gavrilova
Keyword(s):  
Social Competence ◽  
Physical Health ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Cognitive Competence ◽  
Raising Children ◽  
Behavioral Competence ◽  
The Family ◽  
Basic Competencies

The article examines the content of the upbringing function in the family, the component of society's demands on the child and the reflection of these demands in the parents' knowledge of raising children. The results of the analysis of this knowledge are presented and the directions of accentuation and filling of the experience of parents in the implementation of the educational function in four basic competencies (physical health and safety, emotional and behavioral competence, social competence and cognitive competence) are determined.

Quality of Workplace Social Relationships and Perceived Health

2012 ◽  
Vol 110 (3) ◽  
pp. 781-790 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leif W. Rydstedt ◽  
Stephen A. Stansfeld ◽  
Jenny Head ◽  
Davina Woodley-Jones
Keyword(s):  
Physical Health ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Job Strain ◽  
General Health Questionnaire ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Group A ◽  
S Model

Associations between the quality of social relationships at work and mental and self-reported health were examined to assess whether these associations were independent of job strain. The study was based on cross-sectional survey data from 728 employees (response rate 58%) and included the Demand-Control-(Support) (DC-S) model, six items on the quality of social relationships at the workplace, the General Health Questionnaire (30), and an item on self-reported physical health. Logistic regression analyses were used. A first set of models were run with adjustment for age, sex, and socioeconomic group. A second set of models were run adjusted for the dimensions of the DC-S model. Positive associations were found between the quality of social relationships and mental health as well as self-rated physical health, and these associations remained significant even after adjustment for the dimensions. The findings add support to the Health and Safety Executive stress management standards on social relationships at the workplace.

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