Outdoor safety at boarding schools/ Efterskoler

As part of a boarding school stay, various activities are often included in connection with teaching and socializing, which require a focus on the students' safety.It is therefore important that schools are aware of the risks associated with the school's activities and develop and maintain a safety culture at the school that is owned by both staff and students. It must be educational, fun and challenging to go to boarding school - but not dangerous.

Safety in connection with daily life at the school and the movements in the immediate environment of the school should be discussed with the students as part of the general supervision. How do they move in traffic on foot, on roller skates or bicycles, where do they need to pay particular attention and which situations or places do they need to pay particular attention to?

The safety rules must contribute to ensuring that there are as few accidents as possible among pupils at secondary schools. Both employees and students must make themselves aware of the risks involved in, among other things, pioneering, use of fire and camp life, water activities and land activities, etc.

It is the teachers' responsibility that the students know how to behave. The teachers are also responsible for first aid equipment being available.

Other activities involving possible risks and hazards require increased focus on student safety and increased supervision. A stricter supervision goes beyond the supervisory duty that the boarding secondary school already has by virtue of the fact that the students live and stay at the school.

A heightened supervision that must be carried out in risky activities is not just that a teacher keeps an extra eye on the activity or is present. Enhanced supervision means that the school must at least recognize the risks and dangers associated with the activity

Familiarize yourself with the rules and guidelines that apply to the activity in question

Ensure that all teachers and students have relevant and necessary skills and equipment

Behaving soberly and critically about whether activities are safe in terms of safety. Establishes safety regulations in the form of rules or guidelines based on the above considerations. The safety rules should be available in writing to teachers and students, so that all teachers and students have a common understanding of risks, requirements, etc., and that the teachers know what they have to deal with. This removes any doubt about what to do.