स्वास्थ्य शिक्षा अनुसंधान एवं विकास जर्नल

Designing a Safety Management Model for Higher Education Centres

Abstract

Yasamin Molavi Taleghani, Alireza Jabbari, Elahe Khorasani, Hori Asgari and Raja Mardani

Background: The pattern of safety management in higher education centres can prevent the complications caused by harmful issues to students and bring their potential talents closer to perfection. Therefore, this study was conducted with the aim of designing a safety management pattern in higher education centres of Iran in year of 2016.
Study design and methods: The present study was a descriptive study from qualitative type. This study was conducted in 3 independent phases including: (evaluating theoretical concepts for evaluating safety management models in educational and non-educational organizations of the world, developing an initial model by determining the points of sharing and differentiation of the evaluated models and validating the safety management pattern using the Delphi technique). Descriptive statistics (frequency, percentage, and mean) by SPSS-22 software were used to analyse quantitative data and the consensus of experts was used for analysing qualitative data.
Results: In the first stage, 111 indexes were identified by reviewing the studies and evaluating the safety models in the world’s educational and non-educational organizations for the 12 main categories of safety management model. In the Delphi phase, with 82% reliability, 82 components were identified as a key index of the safety management framework in higher education centres of Iran. Also, the average mean of participants’ views on the dimensions of the Safety Management Framework for Higher Education Centres has been 4.32, with the highest average mean related to the dimension of the facility and the firefighting department with a mean of 4.59 and the lowest for the student dimension with mean of 4.10.
Conclusion: The indexes presented in this study will provide a fairly complete tool for designing safety management in higher education centres, which by applying it will provide a good opportunity to improve the performance of these systems over time. Therefore, it is essential to establish a safety management system in higher education centres with command lines and delegating authorities and organizational and legal tools.