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An intervention of safety signs in selected primary school pupils in Perak state, Malaysia

In Malaysia, there are number of incidents highlighted by the media on school children incidents which caused injuries and death. Majority of incidents happen due to poor safety signage at the particular area where the hazards present. Current school guidelines did not specify any details on type of...

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Main Authors: Baharudin, Mohd Rafee, Subramaniam, Murugan, Abdul Rahman, Anita, Muhamad Saliluddin, Suhainizam
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Published: Blue Eyes Intelligence Engineering & Sciences Publication 2019
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/80610/1/PUPILS.pdf
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spelling my.upm.eprints.806102020-11-05T19:43:04Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/80610/ An intervention of safety signs in selected primary school pupils in Perak state, Malaysia Baharudin, Mohd Rafee Subramaniam, Murugan Abdul Rahman, Anita Muhamad Saliluddin, Suhainizam In Malaysia, there are number of incidents highlighted by the media on school children incidents which caused injuries and death. Majority of incidents happen due to poor safety signage at the particular area where the hazards present. Current school guidelines did not specify any details on type of safety sign boards that should be in schools. So, the objective of this study is to develop, implement and evaluate the knowledge on safety signage on intervention and control group among the primary schools pupils in Perak state, Malaysia. The new design of safety signs will be intervene to reduce the unsafe act by school pupils and also to reduce the risk from unsafecondition. A cross sectional study was carried at 102 schools (91.9%) out of 111 schools in LMS district. The safety signage was designed according to MS2558:2014 standard. All the signages was added pictures and texts according to identified hazards from selected school. A self-administered questionnaires form was used to ask about the safety signage and risks. Intervention on new safety signs showed significant different between pretest, post-test 1 and post-test 2 (p<0.001). The pre-test, post-test 1 and post-test 2 result showed significant results and pupils were able to sustain the meaning of safety signage after three months’ time. The new design of safety signage able to promote safety among primary schools pupils. Blue Eyes Intelligence Engineering & Sciences Publication 2019 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/80610/1/PUPILS.pdf Baharudin, Mohd Rafee and Subramaniam, Murugan and Abdul Rahman, Anita and Muhamad Saliluddin, Suhainizam (2019) An intervention of safety signs in selected primary school pupils in Perak state, Malaysia. International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering, 8 (1C2). pp. 270-278. ISSN 2277-3878 https://www.ijrte.org/wp-content/uploads/papers/v8i1C2/A10460581C219.pdf
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description In Malaysia, there are number of incidents highlighted by the media on school children incidents which caused injuries and death. Majority of incidents happen due to poor safety signage at the particular area where the hazards present. Current school guidelines did not specify any details on type of safety sign boards that should be in schools. So, the objective of this study is to develop, implement and evaluate the knowledge on safety signage on intervention and control group among the primary schools pupils in Perak state, Malaysia. The new design of safety signs will be intervene to reduce the unsafe act by school pupils and also to reduce the risk from unsafecondition. A cross sectional study was carried at 102 schools (91.9%) out of 111 schools in LMS district. The safety signage was designed according to MS2558:2014 standard. All the signages was added pictures and texts according to identified hazards from selected school. A self-administered questionnaires form was used to ask about the safety signage and risks. Intervention on new safety signs showed significant different between pretest, post-test 1 and post-test 2 (p<0.001). The pre-test, post-test 1 and post-test 2 result showed significant results and pupils were able to sustain the meaning of safety signage after three months’ time. The new design of safety signage able to promote safety among primary schools pupils.
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author Baharudin, Mohd Rafee
Subramaniam, Murugan
Abdul Rahman, Anita
Muhamad Saliluddin, Suhainizam
spellingShingle Baharudin, Mohd Rafee
Subramaniam, Murugan
Abdul Rahman, Anita
Muhamad Saliluddin, Suhainizam
An intervention of safety signs in selected primary school pupils in Perak state, Malaysia
author_facet Baharudin, Mohd Rafee
Subramaniam, Murugan
Abdul Rahman, Anita
Muhamad Saliluddin, Suhainizam
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title An intervention of safety signs in selected primary school pupils in Perak state, Malaysia
title_short An intervention of safety signs in selected primary school pupils in Perak state, Malaysia
title_full An intervention of safety signs in selected primary school pupils in Perak state, Malaysia
title_fullStr An intervention of safety signs in selected primary school pupils in Perak state, Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed An intervention of safety signs in selected primary school pupils in Perak state, Malaysia
title_sort intervention of safety signs in selected primary school pupils in perak state, malaysia
publisher Blue Eyes Intelligence Engineering & Sciences Publication
publishDate 2019
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/80610/1/PUPILS.pdf
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