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Background and Objectives: Attention to physical factors, safety and health of schools is a factor in physical, mental, and student learning. Therefore, the present study was conducted with the aim of evaluating the health and safety of the schools of Babol.
Materials and Methods:This cross-sectional descriptive-analytic study was conducted among all schools in Babol (552) using census sampling and checklist. The checklist comprised two parts for assessing the health and safety of schools. After collecting data from each school, data analysis was performed using Spss16 and descriptive statistics.
Results: The status of schools in terms of safety and human engineering (%92.2), toilet (%94), toilet (%91.7) waste disposal (%97.4) and waste disposal (%91.4) were favorable and in terms of buffet (%58.4), drinking water (%4.1), were unsatisfactory. There was a significant difference between waste disposal and sewage systems, drinking water in urban and rural schools (p <0.001). There was a significant difference between the health status of the place and class buildings, wastewater treatment and drinking water according to the type of schools (p <0.001).
Conclusion: Most of the schools studied in terms of environmental health status and safety status were based on the School Environment Health Regulations, except for poorly designed school buffets, with a good and desirable situation.
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General Received: 2018/01/10 | Accepted: 2018/05/20 | Published: 2018/05/20