This study explored the work life of secondary school principal as security and safety officers in public

secondary school. Specifically, this study sought to answer the following: the positive and negative

experiences of the informants, addressing the challenges encountered as security and safety officer and the

aspiration of the informants. The findings of this study served as supplementary guidelines for appropriate

interventions and programs to allocate and item for hiring a security and safety officer to lessen the task of the

school heads.

This study is a qualitative type of query using the phenomenological approach. This inquiry utilized (10)

informants from the public secondary schools. Using a validated interview guide with open-ended questions

Communication. Three emergent theme to express the aspiration of the informants to improve their

performance as security and safety officers, to wit: Hiring of Security and Safety Officers, Provisions of

Technology and Equipment and Training.

Keywords: Security and Safety Officers, Public Secondary Schools, Criminal Justice, Cebu City.

Security and safety form the centerpiece of any developing community, particularly within educational

settings. School administrators, leaders, and principals face a difficult challenge in maintaining school safety

and security while simultaneously fostering a warm, encouraging environment for teaching and learning for

both students and faculty. Schools must comply with the standards set by Department of Education. As such,

2023). In line with this, Republic Act No. 9155, Section 4, on School Head as a person responsible for the

administrative and instructional supervision of a school or a cluster of schools. The school head, shall be both

an instructional leader and administrative manager (Cotejo, 2021).

The challenge to keep every school head in route to quality formal education is dependent on several yet

interdependent factors. Even with clear vision in mind and achievable goals at heart victory over quality hangs

The PPSSH depicts the synergy between maximizing school effectiveness and ensuring people effectiveness

through a broad sphere of instructional and administrative practices stipulated in the five domains of the

PPSSH namely: leading strategically, managing school operations and resources, focusing on teaching and

learning, developing self and others, and building connections.

School heads, as a stewards of schools, play a crucial role ensuring an enabling and supportive environment for

effective teaching and learning. Through their quality leadership and management. When students feel

comfortable and safe, they can concentrate on their academic objectives. The foundation for students to

achieve academic success in education is safety. Promoting a safe and secure teaching and learning

environment is a difficult challenge for principals and school administrators. Safety involves preventing

accidents, responding effectively to emergencies, and encourage a culture of preparedness.

the needs of the Philippine education system.

The importance of securing schools cannot be emphasized, considering the vulnerabilities learning institutions.

Schools serve as a center within communities, attracting not only students and personnel but also potential

risks. To create safe and securing security of the schools.

The Department of Education is one of the government agencies who recognize the need for a child protection

policy in collaboration with its partners, and stakeholders shall ensure that all schools are conducive to

educating the children. For the best interest of the child shall be the vital contemplation in all-encompassing

children (Bayucca, 2020). The Special Protection of Children Against Abuse, Exploitation, and Discrimination

Act, and the Philippines' obligations under the Convention on the Rights of the Child, served as the basis of the

Department of Education (DepEd) to issued DepEd Order No. 40, s. 2012, titled the DepEd Child Protection

procedures and emergency plans, certain risks are still not properly managed. The effectiveness of safety

measures is impacted by a number of circumstances, including limited funds, limited equipment, resources and

number of student’s issues. Furthermore, educators and administrators face additional issues as a result of

social media's and technology's impact on student safety where mental health is affected. Therefore,

collaborative efforts among principals, teachers, community, stakeholders, and through the education support

services system intensifies the resiliency of schools through school safety plan. Identifying vulnerabilities,

sharing resources, and implementing effective strategies to enhance school safety.

As an administrative officer of the Department of Education and a criminologist, my competence lies in

bridging the realms of education administration and crime prevention imparting my knowledge through the

certain situation. In my administrative role, I bring expertise in policy development, resource allocation, and

organizational management to address the complex challenges of school safety. Develop a management plan

integrating administrative leadership with criminological insights, I always aim to create safe and secure

by Self Efficacy by Albert Bandura & Wessels, (1994) and Performance Theory by Sonnentag & Frese,

(2002).

According to Taylor (2010), safety culture Theory is a shared safety beliefs are essential to developing a good

organizational safety-culture and it is in generating and embedding beliefs where management influence is

most valuable. It is how management practiced, the understanding of safety and culture. The theory

emphasizes that safety is not just like following rules and regulations, but also preparing the individual mind-

set of the workers from preventing harm and ensuring the wellness of well-being.

The lack of a good safety management system, compounded by a poor safety culture, is a charge often laid on

organisations. Accidents can take up to thirty percentage points off annual profits and, often, failure to manage

safety has a much larger social cost that can involve fatalities or serious injury to members of the workforce

employees. A motivational employee is responsive of the definite goals and objectives he/she must achieve;

therefore he/she directs their effort in that direction (Shahzadi et al., 2014).

The theory suggests that organisational culture arises from shared beliefs. These beliefs driving an

layers of values, attitudes and artefacts. It is suggested that beliefs and hence culture can only be assessed and

interpreted indirectly through observing human behaviors. As a combination of the elements; beliefs, values,

attitudes and artefacts the culture manifests itself through behaviors or human performance. Although

beliefs in particular mold staff behaviors. In addition, if a set of shared beliefs and associated behaviors deliver

in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather than as threats to be avoided.

Such an efficacious outlook fosters intrinsic interest and deep engrossment in activities. They set themselves

challenging goals and maintain strong commitment to them. They heighten and sustain their efforts in the face

of failure. They quickly recover their sense of efficacy after failures or setbacks. They attribute failure to

insufficient effort or deficient knowledge and skills which are acquirable. They approach threatening situations

with assurance that they can exercise control over them. Such an efficacious outlook produces personal

accomplishments, reduces stress and lowers vulnerability to depression. Self-efficacy for security officers, this

expresses a higher level of alertness, effective decision-making in emergency situations, and improved conflict

resolution skills.

The theory claims that the self-efficacy of safety and security officers is indeed distinct. Understanding that the

term safety and security officer self-efficacy includes certain level of confidence in one’s knowledge, skills,

supervisory skills of 48 school heads using a total enumeration sampling technique. Data were collected

through a survey questionnaire and were analyzed using frequency count, percentage, weighted mean, eta