Safe and healthy school / preschool / university

This report presents the UNESCO global Happy Schools framework consisting of 4 pillars – people, process, place and principles – and 12 high-level criteria to guide the transformation of learning. It offers a holistic model for embedding happiness into education policies and cultivating it in schools through systemic changes.

The HOORAY(Youth for Youth’s Mental Health through Physical Activity) project aims to address this challenge by exploring the impact and positive influence physical activity and sport can have on improving the overall well-being and mental health of young people.

Teachers and learners face ever greater challenges in their everyday school life. It is therefore important to do more for health, the school climate and shared learning success by establishing health-promoting ideas in primary and secondary schools.

Since 2003, the state program “Good Healthy Schools” has been supporting Berlin schools that want to set out to give mental and physical health special attention in everyday school life. Health promotion improves job and school satisfaction and, conversely, working and learning conditions influence the health of everyone involved in school.

The Research and Test Lab (RATLab) introduces young people to biomechanics and the importance of bone, joint and muscle health. It uses a combination of science, hi-tech projections and puppetry devised by theatre company Green Ginger. During a visit to RATLab, children interact with a team of engaging characters – mostly rats, dogs and pigs – who use engineering to solve everyday problems.

Good schools also consciously focus on health promotion and prevention. Because they know that successful learning and working is easier when teachers and learners are healthy and feel good. The handbook provides extensive inspiration for school quality development that is committed to a comprehensive understanding of health promotion and prevention. This is based on the belief that integrated health and quality promotion can support schools in fulfilling their social educational and educational mission more effectively.

Health is an important prerequisite for education and education is an important prerequisite for health awareness and health behavior. Health is therefore a central resource for achieving the educational mission of schools. This applies directly to students, but also to teachers. Good schools also consciously focus on health promotion and prevention. Because they know that successful learning and working is easier when teachers and learners are healthy and feel good.

A good, healthy school agrees on its educational and upbringing mission, implements it successfully and thus makes a contribution to education for sustainable development. It demonstrates good qualities in the following areas and ensures their constant and sustainable improvement through school development.

In the present specialist concept "Developing good schools with health" (BG/GUV-SI 8097), safety and health promotion are intended to contribute to increasing the quality in general and vocational schools. The concept follows the approach of integrated health and quality development with the motto "Good Healthy School" and represents the technical reference basis for the further development of school prevention work.

Purzelbaum (Somersault) brings momentum into everyday kindergarten life.
Using simple and practical means, Purzelbaum ensures more exercise and healthy nutrition in kindergarten.

The report “Teacher Survey: Sound in schools and its impact on learning and teachers’ wellbeing” captures the results of a pan-European survey conducted by European Schoolnet under its Future Classroom Lab initiative with the financial assistance of Saint-Gobain Ecophon.

The objective of the International Safe School Program, under the framework of the World Health Organization (WHO) Safe Community initiative, is to apply the best practices of proven injury prevention programs to protect the safety and health of teachers, staff, students and visitors in school environment. A safe school environment can foster safety awareness among students during their juvenile education. This will help planting the seed of a positive safety culture in our community.

The Health Promoting School (HPS) framework promulgated by the World Health Organization aims to strengthen a school's capacity as a healthy setting for living, learning and working through a concerted effort of all its members and the community. The framework has been adopted in many countries and places around the world. It is found to be effective to improve the physical, mental and social health of the students in school settings.
The word “Whole” coveys the core value of the “Whole School Health Programme (全校園健康計劃)” in three perspectives, namely a whole-school approach, comprehensive health information, and a long-term development. The programme name resonates with the advocacy of multi-stakeholder engagement, diverse health themes including Healthy Eating, Physical Activity, Mental Health and Social Well-Being, and sustainability of health promotion in school setting.

Fit for Life is UNESCO's sport-based flagship designed to accelerate COVID-19 recovery, support inclusive and integrated policy making, and enhance the wellbeing of youth around the world.

CapFoodS is the meeting place for Captive Foodscape Studies community. It contains news, events and other important information in the growing field of Captive Foodscape Studies (CFS) Foodscape studies is a growing area of research among scientists engaged in the study of foodways and it claims to be offering a well suited conceptual foundation that can be used to accommodate the holistic approach that is needed to understand the complex social interactions taking place in relation to eating in an early age in preschool.

Formaldehyde is used in medical fields such as pathology, human and veterinary anatomy for the fixation, preservation and storage of human or animal tissue. In November 2014, the Committee on Hazardous Substances adopted a workplace limit value (AGW) for formaldehyde, which also applies to workplaces in anatomical institutes at German universities, but is not always complied with.

With mole and dragonfly against sunburn
Skin protection is important almost all year round, because ultraviolet radiation from the sun can damage the skin considerably, especially sensitive children's skin.

A game to raise awareness of the importance of good posture and the prevention of musculoskeletal disorders. In this game developed for young people in the 3rd cycle of secondary education, the hero “Flexaminator” fights musculoskeletal disorders.

A website presenting information and ideas for a healthier nutrition.

The safety and health of teachers is a priority of ETUCE. ETUCE believes a school should be a safe, healthy and propitious place for teaching and learning. Schools are the workplace of teachers, but first and foremost they are educational institutions for young students.

The Education Guidelines for the World of Work was produced by the Directorate-General for Education (DGE) of the Ministry of Education of Portugal, in collaboration with national partner entities: Authority for Working Conditions (ACT), Office of the International Labour Organization for Portugal (ILO Lisbon), National Agency for Qualification and Vocational Education (ANQEP), Institute for Employment and Vocational Training (IEFP).
The document is part of the set of guiding documents provided in the National Strategy for Citizenship Education aiming to contribute to the achievement of the Students’ Profile by the End of Compulsory Schooling, a document that establishes the matrix of principles, values, and competence areas to which the development of the national curriculum must conform.

Complete administrative tasks faster and easier. Reduce workload and achieve more time with the children.

Pupils were shown a replica living room containing numerous trip hazards including trailing wires, children’s toys strewn across the floor, blankets draped over furniture and a loose rug – all of which could have the potential to cause a fall.

Transform Our World and its partners have developed this free, easy-to-use digital tool to enable teachers, students and staff to identify actions they can take to reduce their school's environmental impact. After answering some yes or no questions, the tool will show you the personalised actions that would have the greatest impact at your school by pointing to resources, initiatives and programmes from various organisations.

The Utah State Board of Education (USBE), in coordination with stakeholders, has made Safe and Healthy Schools a board priority. The Utah School Safety Framework includes 9 Conditions that schools may follow to create comprehensive safe and healthy school policies, plans, protocols, and partnerships.

There are a number of physical health and safety matters to consider when using technology devices within schools including use of wireless networks, ergonomics, using interactive whiteboards and projectors and the risk of photosensitive epilepsy.

Schools for help in Europe provides more than 60 practical examples of health promotion in education from various European countries.

The Lifelong Learning Platform is an umbrella that gathers 42 European organisations active in the field of education, training and youth, coming from all over Europe and beyond.

European Health Promoting Schools Standards & Indicators address a need for accessible and usable quality standards that fill the gap between what is the current practice in health-promoting schools and what would be the optimal practice in health-promoting schools across different European countries and different national health-promoting school models.

A selection of examples of practice in health promoting schools in different countries on the website of the "Schools for Health in Europe Foundation (SHE)".

School development award

The school development award „Good healthy school“ is an initiative of the Statutory accident insurance for the public sector in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Ar and Mi is a project from Denmark featuring two trolls, who are supposed to help teachers to teach about Safety and Health.

Youth Employment Educational Outreach Game

Paying Attention Pays is a fun, innovative, interactive, educational and rewarding game ...

Källby Gård is a comprehensive school with children from 1 to 12 years old.

Everyday school activity and programme contains such activities that lead the pupils into positive changes of the attitude towards one another, the environment, to maintain good re

OIRA tools for working with children in schools and nursery homes, developed in Spain, Croatia and Europe. When working with children, nursery teachers are exposed to various work-

Can children and teenagers discriminate safe from dangerous behaviours?

Around eight percent of the accidents that schoolchildren suffer happen on the way to school. Especially when changing from elementary school to secondary school, the way to school is often longer and therefore particularly dangerous.

Upsi is a comic character, created by the Accident Insurance Berlin to rise awareness for OSH topics in a playful way. Eight books and one radio play have been released until now.

The Report "Movement and learning – the concept of moving schools” (“Bewegte Schulen”) by Gerold Brägger, Heinz Hundeloh, Norbert Posse and Hermann Städtler is supposed to promote the concept for improvement of children’s health by sports and physical activities at school.

A couple of health and safety activities at the school, like physical activities, safety education, health courses, classroom management, prevention of drug addiction, and more.

There are many resources and programs that are approved by the International Safe schools Committee to assist in fulfilling the Indicators for Safe schools.

The Roelof Van Echten college was created a few years ago by a merge of several schools. One of the challenges was to develop one culture and vision towards health and safety among the different schools.

IS THIS school SAFE AT ALL?' is a school safety assessment guide for parents and school owners.

Every October, we campaign for safer schools by sharing tips, information and resources to get schools all over the world taking action on safety.

At HPB, we encourage schools to establish a culture that promotes healthy living. Here are some programmes your school can adopt to empower students, staff and parents in supporting this culture.

Accident Insurance North Rhine-Westphalia

On this website, run by the Accident Insurance North Rhine-Westphalia, children, pupils and other visitors can click through a unique virtual model of a kindergarten and find out where there are risks and how to prevent accidents and be aware of hazards to make the kindergarten safe for all.

Young Life Savers Club (your safety matters) is a subsidiary of Combined Training Solutions Limited (CTS), an international company with its core specialization in Health & Safety training and Consultancy.

Learnometer is a device to monitor and examine the learning environment at school to make it healthier and to reduce factors that could make it less healthy.