Ensuring the comprehensive safety of an educational institution in the course of the discipline «Life safety»

in the article we discuss topical issues of ensuring the comprehensive safety of an educational institution within the framework of the discipline «Life safety». The security of a modern educational institution is understood as a set of measures aimed at protecting the life and health of students and staff from various threats – social, man-made, natural. The analysis of the regulatory legal acts of the Russian Federation regulating safety in education, including the Federal Law «On Education in the Russian Federation» and by-laws establishing requirements for anti-terrorist protection, fire and sanitary-epidemiological safety of schools, is given. The data of recent studies and statistics are summarized: there is an increase in attention to the physical protection of schools after high-profile emergencies, problems with financing and technical equipment (for example, the lack of video surveillance cameras in about 25% of schools), as well as the increasing importance of the psychological safety of the school environment. In the section «Results and discussion», the main components of integrated security (physical, fire, sanitary, informational, psychological, etc.) are highlighted, examples of the implementation of security measures in educational institutions of the Russian Federation and expert opinions on the shortcomings of the system (for example, the predominance of security guards in schools instead of professional guards) are analyzed. The role of the LS academic discipline in the formation of a safety culture among students is considered separately.

comprehensive safety, educational institution, school security, anti-terrorism protection