Introduction: The Security and safety is the most important goals that must take care of in
schools in order to provide a safe and secure school environments for students and staff. So all
school personnel must work to achieve this and cooperate wi
th the Ministry of education through
the development of plans and studies to get to the school community that apply the instructions and
guide care of school safety and security. The school environment with all its elements have a
significant impact on the health of students and their physical and psychological growth, as well as
affect their behavior daily in and out of school.
Goals: this study aimed to assess safety procedures in governmental basic learning schools
in Latakia.
Materials and Methods: this study was conducted on a set of governmental basic learning
schools in the city of Latakia. The original community of study consisted of 59 schools of basic
public learning in the city of Latakia and the search sample included nearly50%=29 schools were
taken randomly stratified. The assessment was conducted by the researcher through observation of
the physical environment of schools, and interview each school’s administrators to collect
information about the social environment.
Results: Safety procedures in the physical environment were more secure in achieving good
location and its validity as a school, and in providing general safety procedures at school, while less
secure in achieving safety standards in public facilities and public health in the classroom. Were
more secure in communicating with parents, and providing sport system and activities, while were
less secure in achieving safety standards of providing first aid system and psychological
counseling.
Conclusions and recommendations: Results of the study suggested that developing of
national standards for security and safety procedures in the physical and social environments of
schools, as well as continue to conduct scientific research in school environment regarding safety
procedures thus for accelerated changes to be present at the environment of the school, which
required special solutions in cooperation with the Department of education.
