Community Safety Survey: A Learning Module

The first step to community disaster preparedness is understanding what the awareness level is within your community. This module engages students with the community to determine what the level of preparedness is by surveying members of the local community. This information can then be used to determine the type of future activities within the community.

This module takes students out into their community to determine the level of preparedness of the general public. In this project you will develop a safety and preparedness survey with your students that they will administer at various locations in and around your community. An integral part of the success of this project it partnering with public locations that will allow students to complete their task.

There are several Learning Modules developed as part of the Safety in Ohio through Service that can be used in conjunction with this unit. The Service-Learning with a Side of Hometown Safety Learning Module takes students into local businesses to evaluate their safety procedures and the School Safety Walk Around Survey takes high school students back into their middle school and/or middle school students to their grade school to complete similar surveys. (authors)