THE NEED FOR INCREASE OF STUDENT'S SAFETY AWARENESS AS A PREPARATION FOR THEIR PROFESSIONAL CAREER AFTER GRADUATION

Abstract

Security and safety are becoming one of the priorities of each organization. Organizations focus on factors that affect their security and safety and strive to influence them. One of these factors is the safety culture. The organization's safety culture greatly influences the safety culture at the individual's level in an organization that includes safety awareness. Employees of organizations affect the organization's safety and the functioning of the organization by their safety awareness, which underlie their safety behavior. Therefore, employers are concentrating on the potential to increase such safety awareness. Safety awareness of an individual can be built, shaped and influenced during his studies at a secondary or high school, so it is necessary to start to elaborate it as soon as possible. The goal of the process of increasing the safety awareness of secondary and high school students is to enhance their adaptation to the new work environment that awaits them after graduation. The article focuses on the description of the theoretical backgrounds for safety awareness of secondary and high school students and employees of different organizations. Moreover, it contains a description of the need to increase safety awareness as well as possible tools that can be used for this purpose. Because safety awareness is part of every individual's life in different social groups, the results and conclusions of this article will not only serve educational institutions and organizations, but anyone in the cross-community. The article presents clear procedures and processes that need to be addressed in the context of student education to ensure their personal safety in a variety of environments.