The Praxeology of Safety According to the Polish Ministry of National Education Program “Safe School”

Poland’s Ministry of National Education1 issued in August 2017 a document titled Safe School –the threats and recommended preventive measures for [protection of] physical and digital safety of students2. A program started in September 2017 as a set of safety recommendations and guidelines for school heads and school authorities. In its particular components and general outlook, the document focuses on school safety problems, with propositions for their resolve. The whole document consists of two separate parts. The first chapter –Prevention of physical hazards and ensuring physical safety at school – discusses such material factors as the description of a typical school building, its equipment and its surroundings (areas adjacent to school buildings), entry/exit procedure, alarm system, escape routes, and recommendations for school activities in relation to its material factors. It also underlines duties of the school headmaster, teachers and other school staff, based and in relation to the Teacher’s Charter. The second chapter – Cyber threats prevention and digital security at school – is a significant novelty. The Ministry of National Educationdocument provides for all the actors present within school surroundings, and at the same time in the digital space, six separate preventive recommendations, and also a strategic recommendation (action plan) in general. The aim of the article is a presentation of the main premises and contextual analysis of the safety issues presented in it.