Journal of Education and Health Promotion

Designing a safety management system for higher education centers

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

. Alireza Jabbari
. Elahe Khorasani
. Hori Asgari
. raja Mardani
. Yasamin Molavi Taleghani

Department of Pharmacoeconomics and Pharmaceutical Administration, School of Pharmacy, Students Scientific Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Abstract
INTRODUCTION: The system of safety management in higher education centers can prevent
the complications caused by harmful issues to students and bring their potential talents closer to
perfection. Therefore, this study aimed to design a safety management system (SMS) in higher
education centers of Iran in 2016.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: This study was a descriptive study of qualitative type. This study was
conducted in three independent phases, including (1) evaluating theoretical concepts, (2) developing
an initial system by determining the points of sharing and differentiation of the evaluated systems,
and (3) validating the SMS using the Delphi technique. Consensus on opinions and identifying
similarities and differences of reviewed studies have been used for qualitative data analysis, and
the descriptive statistics (sum of scores and mean) by means of SPSS version 21 has been used
for quantitative data analysis.
RESULTS: In the first stage, 108 indexes were identified by reviewing the studies and evaluating
the SMS in the world’s educational and noneducational organizations for the 12 main categories
of SMS. In the Delphi phase, 83 components were identified as a key index of the SMS in higher
education centers of Iran. Furthermore, the average mean of participants’ views on the dimensions
of the SMS for higher education centers has been 4.32, with the highest average mean of 4.59
related to the dimension of the facility and the firefighting department and the lowest mean of 4.10
for the student dimension.
CONCLUSION: The indexes presented in this study will provide a fairly complete tool for designing
SMS in higher education centers, which by applying it will provide a good opportunity to improve the
performance of these systems over time.

Keywords

Higher education centers
safety management
system 
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Journal of Education and Health Promotion
Volume 9, Issue 8
August 2019
Pages 1-14

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