scholarly journals Understandings of the Safety in School Concept among Secondary School Teachers

2018 ◽  
pp. 271-276
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Secondary School Teachers ◽  
Peninsular Malaysia ◽  
Occupational Safety And Health ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
The Social ◽  
Management Responsibility ◽  
School Concept

Safety at workplace is an issue that has been growing in the social context and is becoming an increasing concern of many parties that call for the need of actions to prevent injuries and other sort of dangerous situations. Safety in school, as a workplace for many, is not only the school’s management responsibility but teachers, staff as well as the students have roles to play to ensure that schools are safe. Teachers need to have knowledge and awareness of safety in schools and embrace its related concepts as depicted by Occupational Safety and Health Act 1994 (OSHA 1994).This paper reports on a qualitative study, involving interviews with20 experienced secondary school teachers from the Northern States of Peninsular Malaysia. It examines the concept of safety in school from their perspectives. The interview data were analysed thematically. Among the concepts that had emerged from the analysis are safety in school as undeniably an important aspect that warrants attention from the related parties; safety in school as a condition whereby the community in the schools feel safe; and safety in schools as the awareness of being free from danger from the physical and psychosocial aspects. The results of the study provided evidence of limited conceptions of safety in school among the teachers. Hence, it indicates the need to provide teachers with relevant knowledge about matters pertaining to safety in school as described by the ministry.

scholarly journals THE EDUCATOR’S PERSPECTIVE: KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE AND PRACTICES ON OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH AT SCHOOL AMONG PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 184-190
Author(s):  
Nursyuhada Binti Mohamad Yusoff ◽  
Vivien How ◽  
Ezza Sabrina Binti Azmi ◽  
Khairuddin Bin Othman
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Primary School ◽  
School Environment ◽  
Positive Attitude ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Secondary School Teachers ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Primary School Teachers ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
Primary And Secondary School

Introduction: School can be considered as a relatively moderate risk working environment due to the various hazards assembled in the school. Nevertheless, Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) training is yet to formally inclusive into teachers’ training module, and the current one-off or ad-hoc OSH training mainly targeted among school students. The different OSH awareness exists among teacher and student have hinder the provision of sustainable and effective safety and health training program at school levels. Objective: To assess the knowledge, attitude and practice among primary and secondary school teachers towards OSH at the school environment. Method: A cross-sectional survey carried out at three (3) primary schools and three (3) secondary schools after stratified random sampling. School teachers from these schools were randomly selected among those who had at least one year work experience as permanent teacher at the current school through the fishbowl technique. A structured questionnaire was used and total 136 teachers were assessed on their knowledge, attitude and practices on OSH at schools. Result: Study found that primary and secondary school teachers have different knowledge, attitude and practices of OSH at school levels. Overall, the knowledge level of secondary school teacher (62.1% of high to medium knowledge levels) are higher than the primary school teachers (41.1% of high to medium knowledge levels); at the same time, 93.1% of secondary school teachers show positive attitude while 88.5% of primary school teachers show positive attitude on safety and health atschools. In general, OSH practice level among the primary (88.5%) and secondary school teachers (86.2%) are atrelatively good levels. Besides, there is positive association with knowledge and attitude on OSH behavior among primary school teachers. Apart of this, there is positive but relatively weak association with knowledge and practices and knowledge and attitudes among primary and secondary school teachers. Conclusion: Considering the background differences between primary and secondary school teachers, a sustainable OSH learning mechanism should be planned and designed together with OSH practitioners and Ministry of Education to achieve a sustainable safety and healthy sound school environment for teacher to work and for students to learn. 

scholarly journals Teachers and Interpersonal Relationships: a Question of Distance and Social Link?

K@iros ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tony ORIVAL ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Social Distance ◽  
Oral Language ◽  
Secondary School Teachers ◽  
Language Practices ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Link

Social distance and social link are important in the relationships between teachers and pupils. This question deserves to be examined with a sociological eye. The aim of this book chapter is to clarify the meaning of the terms (“social distance” and “social link”) and to analyze the influences of the social distance reconfigurations on the behavior of the first towards the second. Based on interviews with secondary school teachers, this chapter aims to show how do the influences of social distance reconfigurations change or not their oral language practices.

IMPLEMENTATION OF LABOR PROTECTION-THE BASIS OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY OF THE ORGANIZATION

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-38
Author(s):  
G. Meirbekova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Efficiency ◽  
Management System ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Health Management ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Occupational Safety And Health ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
Labor Protection ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
The Social

The article focuses on the substantiation of the proposed measures to improve the health management system of employees for safety and labor protection from an economic and social point of view, considering the theoretical aspects of the safety and labor protection management system. The author analyzes the conditions and features of the application of legislation that protects the social rights of employees in the system of occupational safety and health in Kazakhstan.

scholarly journals Determinants and Effects of Voice Disorders among Secondary School Teachers in Peninsular Malaysia Using a Validated Malay Version of VHI-10

PLoS ONE ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. e0141963 ◽  
Author(s):  
Foong Ming Moy ◽  
Victor Chee Wai Hoe ◽  
Noran Naqiah Hairi ◽  
Anne Hin Yee Chu ◽  
Awang Bulgiba ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Teachers ◽  
Voice Disorders ◽  
Peninsular Malaysia ◽  
School Teachers

scholarly journals Primary and secondary school teachers’ perceptions of their social science training needs

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Raquel Sánchez-Ibáñez ◽  
Catalina Guerrero-Romera ◽  
Pedro Miralles-Martínez
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Secondary School Teachers ◽  
Historical Thinking ◽  
Training Needs ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Competency Based ◽  
Primary And Secondary School

AbstractCompetency-based education is one of the challenges currently faced by social science teachers. At present, there is an abundance of research on competencies relating to the social sciences which favour the development of historical thinking among learners. The ongoing training of teachers is of vital importance when it comes to shifting the method of teaching towards approaches which focus more on the learner, which favour the teaching of historical contents and competences aimed at forming a critical citizenship. For this reason, the two objectives of this study are to discover which disciplinary contents are considered by teachers to be most relevant for the teaching of history and what training is required by teachers who give social science classes in primary and secondary education in Spain. The research is a non-experimental mixed-methods study. In order to achieve the first objective, a quantitative analysis has been carried out of the data obtained from a questionnaire with a Likert-type scale administered to 332 primary and secondary teachers in Spain. To achieve the second objective, the information obtained from 12 interviews with primary and secondary school teachers in Spain has been analysed in a qualitative way. The results obtained indicate that teachers update their disciplinary knowledge via scientific journals and that they are interested in receiving training in historical thinking skills, active learning methods and ICT resources. Based on these training needs, it is concluded that teachers currently envisage a teaching model in the social sciences which is more competency-based and focused on the active participation of the learner.

A Survey on Occupational Safety and Health Awareness Among School Teachers in Kelantan, Malaysia

2017 ◽  
pp. 142-151
Author(s):  
Nurul Husna Che Hassan ◽  
Nor Kamilah Makhtar ◽  
Ahmad Rasdan Ismail ◽  
Muhammad Azwadi Sulaiman ◽  
Noor Syuhadah Subki ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Occupational Safety And Health ◽  
Health Awareness ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Safety And Health

scholarly journals School Teachers: Job Stress and Job Satisfaction, Kaski, Nepal

1970 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaita Mondal ◽  
Sandhya Shrestha ◽  
Archana Bhaila
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Job Stress ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
School Teacher ◽  
Teaching Profession ◽  
Occupational Safety And Health ◽  
Economic Data ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
Moderate Stress

In teaching profession, distress has been linked to dissatisfaction with job and to negative affective and professional consequences. In the present study, the attempt was made to identify the level of job stress and job satisfaction among teachers in consideration with their gender differences along with age and experiences. Study comprised of randomly selected 69 school teachers from Pokhara, Nepal. Socio economic data of the subjects were collected by questionnaire. Modified TJSQ and Modified TARSO were applied to identify the Job satisfaction and Job stress of the subjects. Data from acceptable returned questionnaires were analyzed by SPSS 17. It can be concluded from the analysis that, the school teachers were partly satisfied and experiencing mild to moderate stress from their job overall. These can be the resultant of unfavorable job condition and job types for the school teachers. Key Words: School Teacher; Job Stress; Job Satisfaction DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ijosh.v1i1.5226 International Journal of Occupational Safety and Health, Vol 1 (2011) 27-33

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