Influence of Principals’ Adherence to Infrastructure Standards and Disaster Management on Disaster Management in Public Secondary Schools in Nyeri County, Kenya

The objective to the study was establishing the influence of adherence to infrastructure standards on disaster management on safety standards on disaster management in public secondary schools in Nyeri County, Kenya. The researcher used the descriptive survey research design. This work targeted 208 public secondary schools which comprised of 208 principals and 1040 heads of departments in Nyeri County. 15% was used to select 21 principals and 21schools for interviewing and observation checklist respectively. To validate research instruments, a pilot study was carried in 21 schools (10%) of the targeted 208 Schools. Reliability of the research instruments was done using test-retest method. A sample of 30% for heads of department and 10% for principals was considered effective to the study. Stratified sampling method and a mixed method approach were used. Qualitative data was collected from the principals using interview schedule while Quantitative data were collected using questionnaires from head of departments and the checklist was used to confirm the availability of safety policies, infrastructure and equipment. Pearson Correlation Coefficient was used to analyse hypothesis one, two, three, four and five. All ethical issues pertaining to research were observed. SPSS was used to compute the data. The study established that staff awareness of safety and adherence of infrastructure standards had a negative and strong significant level while training of staff and policy implementation of safety standards had a significant contribution to disaster management. Monitoring and evaluation of safety standards had positive and strong significant contribution to disaster management. The following recommendation was that the MoE and TSC ought to ensure that the principals implement the safety policy in schools which may lead to adherence to infrastructure standards on disaster management.