A4 Refereed article in a conference publication
Safety at School Context: Making Injuries and Non-events Visible with a Digital Application
Authors: Brita Somerkoski
Editors: Hongxiu Li, Pirkko Nykänen, Reima Suomi, Nilmini Wickramasinghe, Gunilla Widén, Ming Zhan
Conference name: Well-being in the Information Society
Publication year: 2016
Book title : Building Sustainable Health Ecosystems - 6th International Conference on Well-Being in the Information Society, WIS 2016, Tampere, Finland, September 16-18, 2016, Proceedings
Series title: Communication in Computer and Information Science (CCIS)
Number in series: 636
Volume: 636
First page : 114
Last page: 125
Number of pages: 12
ISBN: 978-3-319-44671-4
eISBN: 978-3-319-44672-1
ISSN: 1865-0929
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44672-1_10
Safety and security have for decades remained basic values in the Finnish society. Extreme violence and unintentional injuries at schools have raised the need of more developed measures to analyze the potential risks. The Green Cross application is seen as an example of how to prevent accidents and how to make the non-events visible for the individuals who work at school. The study explores the usability and usefulness of Green Cross injury reporting application. The data is qualitative, based on 10 (n = 10) end-user interviews representing school and day-care staff.
Based on this study the school risks were unpredictable, connected to human factor issues or persons acting against regulations. It looks clear that Green Cross software works quite well for solving physical or structural risks at the school context. However, the software was not very useful when reporting repeatedly happening cases, like aggressive behavior.
