Scientific and cultural field trips represent an important aspect to help students in building their personality and improving their skills. Such outdoor activities conduct and open doors for student for better future by discovering and looking ahead for future opportunities. Risk evaluation procedure before starting off school field trips is extremely necessary, because such trips might bring tragedy and disastrous development. The definition of risk evaluation is the procedures by a safety team to examine the location and predict the probable risks that could happen.
Generally, field trips today orientate to scientific and cultural sites whereas in the past they went to entertainment areas. The most preferred sites today for students are universities, colleges, museums, forts, historical and archeological sites, science and research centres, agriculture, veterinary and medical centres, institutes of energy and sustainable and environmental centres, oil and gas fields, food industry factories and recycling centres, international companies and so forth. Visiting such locations always links with the curriculum and it offers a positive reflection to enhance learning and increase attainment and achievement academically and personally. The point is that such places have possible risks, which obligate hosts to ensure safety for visitors.
Focusing in disseminating the culture of safety through risk evaluation procedures when schools plan for field trips. This system increases trust from parents, students and staff members with educational institutes when this aspect is highly considered. This is, because serious accidents happen when such aspects are neglected by schools.
Overall, the student is the centre of attention and his or her learning is the basic element in education, hence, the best thing that can be done for them is to ensure safety. This is due to the fact that when disasters occur, the quality of education means nothing.
- The reader is an educator based in Al Ain.
