implementation of child safety and health management system by means of fmea method

every year, many accidents leading to physical injuries in kindergartens, indicates that a very large percentage of them are related to the safety concerns and lack of hygiene in these places. families, due to their busy life style and working hours and also children needs of preschool education, are searching to find most suitable kindergartens for their children. selecting a kindergarten with various suitable training programs, although very important criteria for selection, but is not sufficient. indicators such as health, safety and environment issues in these places must be crucial factors in this decision making. child safety and health management system is an integrated system, derived from health, safety and environmental management regulations which helps the kindergartens complies with relevant regulations to reduce the number of accidents occurrence. the present case study has tried, by using failure modes and effects analysis method and child safety and health management system to find the best practicable indicators to assess the relative impact of different failures in order to identify the parts of the process that are most in need of change. in this regards, 10 semi-governmental kindergartens located in tehran district 6 of tehran municipality, which are supervised by municipality of tehran were selected and evaluated. the results showed that according to the child safety and health management system and failure modes and effects analysis, all these places need massive infrastructural changes according to the preventive action list in order to be considered a safe and hygienic place for the children.