Health and Safety for Sustainable Business Continuity: An Assessment of Private Schools in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

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RESEARCH PROPOSAL
Role of health and safety for sustainable business continuity- An assessment of private
schools in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE)
Name of the Student
Name of the University
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Table of Contents
Project title...........................................................................................................................2
Overview of the study..........................................................................................................2
Problem statement...........................................................................................................3
Rationale of the research.................................................................................................3
Research Question...........................................................................................................4
Research aim and objective.............................................................................................5
Research hypothesis.........................................................................................................5
Research methodology.....................................................................................................6
Related literatures................................................................................................................6
Importance of health and safety in schools......................................................................6
Importance of these in Abu Dhabi...................................................................................7
Strategies..........................................................................................................................8
Methodology of research.....................................................................................................8
Philosophy.......................................................................................................................8
Research approach...........................................................................................................9
Research design...............................................................................................................9
Data Collection method...................................................................................................9
Data analysis..................................................................................................................10

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Validity and reliability...................................................................................................10
Ethical consideration.....................................................................................................10
Outcome.............................................................................................................................10
Proposed structure of the study..........................................................................................11
Timescale...........................................................................................................................12
References..........................................................................................................................13

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Project title
Role of health and safety for sustainable business continuity- An assessment of private
schools in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Overview of the study
Health and safety is determined as one of the basic human rights and maintaining these
human rights is the responsibility of each of the administration that gathers one or more than one
individual for work or business purposes. Attention about good health and safety at workplace
not only makes the person socially aware, but also makes the administration human friendly as
maintaining its employees or people is as important as achievement of key objective (Gostin and
Sridhar 2014). According to UNICEF (2018), maintaining health and safety in schools is more
important as children spend more time in the care of strangers in schools, pre-schools and
vocational training centers except their home. Therefore, it is the duty of the care staff or
teachers of those institutes to provide all the health and safety measures to the children by
maintaining healthy and nurturing environment to promote the physical and educational
development. By maintaining such environment, the educational organization can also achieve a
sustainable growth as more and more parents will try to provide their children an environment
where their cognitive and physical development could be possible without any risk of health and
safety. Loeppke et al. (2015) conducted a research to understand the rate of health and safety
issues occurred in past few years across the United States of America and provided the benefits
of integrating these human rights in workplace. Integrating health and safety policy is a strategic
and systematic integration of health and safety laws into an organization and these policies are

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replicable and measureable and are able to prevent work related hazard and accidents and
illnesses.
Problem statement
Maintaining health and safety to achieve sustainable business continuity with respect to
schools in Abu Dhabi is important in this era of globalization, as the number of violence against
children has been increased in past decade. There are different form of violations occurring in
school nowadays and these incidences are violating the health and safety norms (Jones, Mitchell
and Finkelhor 2012). The effect of such violations are decreasing the trust of parents on the
business and therefore the sustainability of the school business has become the matter of concern
for thousands of private school owners. Further, researchers have also find the fact that the
absence of a proper health and safety guidelines for Asian schools have hampered the business
extensively. Hence, it is a problem for current school businesses, that are struggling for the
sustainability of their business (Hatherley-Greene 2012). According to the National Newspaper
of UAE, the schools of UAE are facing major loss due to lack of expert teachers, shortage of
staffs, leser technology than the global education system and shortage of suppliers (The National
2017). Therefore, a need of emergency management or business continuity management is
necessary for the private schools in Abu Dhabi. However, a proper business continuity
management for private schools is still not present and the schools are facing closure due to the
lack of a proper management planning (Bajgoric 2014). Further, one more issue related to health
and safety is the topic of discussion nowadays, which is hygiene and school vehicle related
accidents. Therefore, this research proposal will be discussing these issues in details in the
following sections (Jafari et al. 2015).

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Rationale of the research
The prime reason for choosing this issue for the research about health and safety aspects
with respect to school business sustainable continuity is increasing crimes and violation against
schoolchildren in Abu Dhabi. According to the data of UNICEF, several type of violations
violates the health and safety norms. Few of these violations are sexual and gender
discrimination, bullying, racial discrimination, fighting and physical assault due to which the
parents are losing hopes and trusts from the private school administrations (UNICEF 2018).
According to the UNICEF statistics, In UAE, 17 percent of girls and 25 percent boys have been
bullied in schools. On the other hand, 58 percent of school going boys have been indulged in
fights and physical violence in schools with respect to 39 percent girls (UNICEF 2018).
Therefore, the need of health and safety rules and extensively implementation of those rules has
become the need of the situation for the safety of the children as well as for those business
administrations, who want to run their school business smoothly.
This issue has become in this contemporary situation, as according to the Gulf business
news, thousands of private schools have to face closure and even more have to merge their
institution with the government administrations in last decade. This happened because the school
administration were unable to implement the health and safety norms properly as well as fee hike
was the secondary factor for the closure of those schools (Gulf Business 2014).
This study will focus on the importance of the health and safety norms in the private
schools of Abu Dhabi for the sustainable business continuity in UAE. Further, the study will
focus on the different business strategies that the private schools of Abu Dhabi should include to
attract more parents from the country to trust on them. Furthermore, the study will also include