Considering the Effects of Sustainable Safety Education on Student Evacuation Behavior During College Emergencies

Abstract

Ensuring the safety of students in higher education institutions during emergencies and their preparedness for them is paramount. This study integrates sustainable development principles into campus safety education to augment students’ emergency response capabilities and their safety awareness. Our study utilizes controlled trials, including safety education interventions and unannounced evacuation drills, as analyzed through data collected from video surveillance, questionnaires, and simulations to evaluate their efficacy. Furthermore, we simulated the evacuation behavior of students in the classroom by combining the emotional contagion of the SIS model with the pedestrian dynamics of the social force model,. The methodology proposed in this article was applied to a real classroom evacuation scenario involving students at a university. The simulation results showed that safety education can significantly reduce students’ evacuation time and enhance their emotional stability during emergencies. Indeed, mobile guides were more effective than fixed guides in calming students’ evacuation panic during the evacuation. Integrating safety education into the sustainable development of campus safety is expected to produce a positive impact on university student evacuations.

Keywords

• Campus safety
• emergency evacuation
• emotional contagion
• safety education
• SIS model
• social force model