Factors Influencing the Implementation of Safety Standards and Guidelines in Public Secondary Schools in Garissa Township Sub-County, Kenya

Abstract

Although the essential component of teaching and learning success is school safety, physical Infrastructure in most of the schools Garissa township Sub- County does not comply with the safety standard as recommended by the ministry of education. Even more importantly, most schools do not have enough financial resources on the implementation of the safety standards as the training of teachers is not adequately done to implement safety standards. Despite vast research on safety standards and school safety, their findings on relationship between implementation of safety standards and guidelines in public secondary school in Garissa township Sub-County are inconclusive findings, hence this study. The goal of this research was to assess factors influencing the implementation of safety standards and guidelines in public secondary school in Garissa township Sub- County. This research used a survey research approach, with the 10 principals and 320 teachers in Garissa Township sub-county as the target population from where as sample of 106 respondents was obtained. Data was gathered using questionnaire interviews from where data was analyzed using Pearson r’ and verbatim respectively. The results show that at 5% significance level, safety sub-committee (r = 0.280, p<0.01), physical infrastructure (r = 0.405, p<0.01), financial resources (r = 0.588, p<0.01), and training of teachers (r = 0.469, p<0.01) had statistically significant and positive relationship with implementation of school safety standards and guidelines in public secondary schools in Garissa Township Sub- County.