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Safety in Schools and Engineers’ Responsibility
 
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Daily Mirror on 21st January reported “An eight-year-old student of Ananda College, Colombo was fatally injured after being pinned against a wall by a lawn roller in the school premises”.


What a shocker; it made the entire country mourn. That story depicts the sad situation in the school sector regarding the safety towards the students, especially kids. In the city or rural areas, wherever, safety concerns are not properly addressed.


Being engineers, have we ever thought of contributing our experience to solve this matter? Usually Safety Engineers are responsible for developing risk assessments and designing safety operating practices for construction and manufacturing companies.I am not suggesting that you visit 10,000 schools and evaluate safety in those schools.  But, now the time has come to propose some useful methodology to intervene in this type of situation with the engineers’ expertise.


Remember, Goal 9 of the IESL corporate plan is “To elevate the image of the engineering profession and the IESL in the industry and the society”.

 

Can we propose a methodology which can be easily adopted by principals and other education sector administrators?  This methodology should be simple and clearly understandable and must be good enough to evaluate the current safety situation in schools. Once this methodology or assessment is finalized it can be presented to education administrators and then the awareness programmes conducted for regional directors. They will then be able to carry it at the school level and engineers can have some intermediate level interventions to see the progress and to propose safety measures. This has to be done as a voluntary work in aiming to protect the future generation from risks and these kids could also be trained to assess such risks.If you want to be a volunteer, please write to me, civil, electrical and mechanical and other engineers have an important role to safe guard our kids.


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From next SLEN, we are planning to reserve some space for the readers, your valuable letters will definitely be published, but it has to be short and concise.


Udeni Nawagamuwa
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