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Safety at School Context: Making Injuries and Non-events Visible with a Digital Application

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Building Sustainable Health Ecosystems (WIS 2016)

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Safety and security have for decades remained basic values in the Finnish society. Extreme violence and unintentional injuries at schools have raised the need of more developed measures to analyze the potential risks. The Green Cross application is seen as an example of how to prevent accidents and how to make the non-events visible for the individuals who work at school. The study explores the usability and usefulness of Green Cross injury reporting application. The data is qualitative, based on 10 (n = 10) end-user interviews representing school and day-care staff.

Based on this study the school risks were unpredictable, connected to human factor issues or persons acting against regulations. It looks clear that Green Cross software works quite well for solving physical or structural risks at the school context. However, the software was not very useful when reporting repeatedly happening cases, like aggressive behavior.

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The author wants to thank The Finnish Fire Protection Fund and University of Turku, Rauma unit, that has funded this study as well as all the school staff in the Pirkanmaa district that participated to the study.

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    Brita Somerkoski

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  1. University of Turku, Turku, Finland

    Hongxiu Li

  2. University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland

    Pirkko Nykänen

  3. University of Turku, Turku, Finland

    Reima Suomi

  4. Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia

    Nilmini Wickramasinghe

  5. Åbo Academi University, Turku, Finland

    Gunilla Widén

  6. Åbo Academi University, Turku, Finland

    Ming Zhan

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Somerkoski, B. (2016). Safety at School Context: Making Injuries and Non-events Visible with a Digital Application. In: Li, H., Nykänen, P., Suomi, R., Wickramasinghe, N., Widén, G., Zhan, M. (eds) Building Sustainable Health Ecosystems. WIS 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 636. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44672-1_10

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