School Safety

School safety and the partnership between psychiatrists and school personnel.

TO THE EDITOR: We appreciate the comments by Drs. Caplan, Querques, Freudenreich, and Kontos on the consultation-liaison psychiatrist’s perspective regarding the effect of workhour regulation on the declining “ownership” of patients by non-psychiatrist physicians. One potential cost of work-hour regulations is that these requirements may further fragment the already complex and confusing team-b...

School bus and children's traffic safety.

OBJECTIVE There is no safer way to transport a child than a school bus. Fatal crashes involving occupants are extremely rare events in the US. In recent years, school bus transportation began to develop in China. We want to bring advanced experience on school bus safety in Western countries such as the US to developing countries. METHODS We searched the papers related to school bus safety fro...

A safety project in elementary school.

TCOPPE school environmental audit tool: assessing safety and walkability of school environments.

BACKGROUND Several environmental audit instruments have been developed for assessing streets, parks and trails, but none for schools. This paper introduces a school audit tool that includes 3 subcomponents: 1) street audit, 2) school site audit, and 3) map audit. It presents the conceptual basis and the development process of this instrument, and the methods and results of the reliability asses...

My School or Our School? The Effects of Individual versus Shared School Experiences on Teacher Perceptions of Safety

While the research in the area of fear of criminal victimization among students at school continues to grow, few studies have focused on the prevalence or correlates of fear of crime at school among teachers. Using data from 1,438 teachers from 54 public high schools in Kentucky, we examined the individualand school-level predictors of teacher perceptions of school safety using hierarchical lin...