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2019 Environmental Health Hazards and Safety Measures among Secondary Technical Schools at El Fayoum City IOSR Journal of Nursing and Health Science (IOSR-JNHS)
Background: Technical education represents a large proportion of a secondary education schools, students with low experience may expose to many types of hazards, which may affect their health and safety. Aim of the study: Assess environmental health hazards and safety measures among secondary technical school students at El Fayoum City. Design: A descriptive study design was used in this study. Setting: This study was conducted in four technical secondary schools in El Fayoum City. Sample: 171 male students were chosen by multi stage random sample in this study. Tools: Two tools were designed, I: Interview questionnaire consists of three parts designed to assess: socio demographic characteristics, student’s health history, student’s knowledge about health hazards, safety measures, the role of the school nurse and student knowledge about reported practices regarding using of safety measures. II: part 1: Observational checklist to assess safety of the school environment, part 2: observational practices regarding use of safety measures. Result: The current study shows that more than two third (70%) have a satisfactory knowledge about health hazards, half of schools 50% have a safety school environment. 67.8 of the students reported that unavailability of safety measures is the barrier to use it. Less than half of them 45% have satisfactory knowledge about reported practices regarding safety measures, only 4.1% have First aid courses and 4.7% have Industrial Safety courses. 28.7 of students exposed to noise and 20.5 exposed toEntry of flying dust in the eye. Conclusion: More than two third of Secondary technical students have …