San Rafael National High School was established in 1966 in Maasin City, Southern Leyte as San Rafael Barangay High School. It is located on a 10,000 square meter property on top of a hill about 14km from Maasin City. The school serves students from the mountainous barangay of San Rafael. Through a student-led hazard mapping activity, the students identified various safety hazards in and around the school buildings and facilities. They found issues like slippery pathways, protruding nails, broken windows, and electrical hazards that could endanger students. The hazard map will help the school address these issues to improve safety.

1. ANNEX 2C Student-led School
Watching and Hazard Mapping
San Rafael National High School was founded by virtue of Ministry of Education
order, on the year 1966. It was first named as San Rafael Barangay High School, the
High School first year class was opened June 1966 managed by Mr. Felipe Santiago
as School Head in 1966 and it became San Rafael National High School by DECS
order in 1988. San Rafael National High School is one of the National High Schools in
Maasin District IV, Maasin City Division. It is situated on top of hill 275 kilometres away
from the heart of the barangay, stands with an area of 10,000 square meters, located
almost half kilometres from the District Office and the public elementary school of the
barangay San Rafael, Maasin City, Southern Leyte having a school ID is 303482.
San Rafael is a mountainous barangay located 14km from the heart of the city.
Amidst the low income of the most families and the unstable jobs they are 100%
supportive in every school activities and projects. The school and its stakeholders are
working together to produce quality graduates equipped with knowledge and skills that
can compete globally.
Students who are commonly identified as one of the vulnerable groups, should be
equipped with the capacity with the capacity to know, understand and apply safety and
protection mechanisms build the foundation of their resilience. School should initiate an activity to
increase the awareness of learners of the hazards and possible risks inside the school and some
students were sent to clinic due to protruding metals/nails on the ground, it also caused discomfort
to everyone due to slippery pathway which sometimes makes uncomfortable to them when walking.

2. ANNEX 2C Student-led School
Watching and Hazard Mapping
Further, strengthening disaster prevention, mitigation, and preparedness is one
of the keystrategies to address the vulnerabilities of children inside and
outside the school. With the increasing effects of climate change, it is important
to raise awareness and capacities of children to prepare for and manage possible
disasters or emergency. Thus, through DepEd Order No. 23,s. 2015 entitled
Student-Led School Watching and Hazard Mapping, schools should support
NDRRMC’s reiteration of performing disaster plan activities in school
Through DepEd Order No. 23, s. 2015, the following hazards were found in
school:

3. ANNEX 2C Student-led School
Watching and Hazard Mapping

4. ANNEX 2C Student-led School
Watching and Hazard Mapping
 Broken window
 Slippery pathway
 Blocked corridor
 Heavy objects mounted on top of
cabinets/shelves
 Flooded area
 Busted plugs/light bulbs/electrical
facilities
 Exposed electrical wires
 Protruding nails in chairs and
tables
 Broken doorknobs
 Warning sign: Slippery
pathways/corridors
 Plants mounted on the building
railings
 Flooding
 Exposed chemicals and liquids
 Lack/absence of storage for
equipment
 Unlabeled chemicals
 Dripping ceiling
 Open pit
 Stagnant water
 Unpruned trees/bushes/shrubs
 Open/clogged canals
 No ramps for elevated school
buildings or other facilities
 Swing-in doors
 Broken/dilapidated ceiling
 Open/incomplete perimeter fence
 Presence of stray animals inside
the school campus
 Presence of electrical
post/transformer near or within the
school perimeter
 No system of release to parents
during emergencies
 No posted emergency hotlines
around the school
 Garbage area (segregation of
biodegradable and non-
biodegradable)
 Detached or peeled off GI sheet
 Broken toilet bowl and/or sinks
 Broken chairs/desks/tables
 Blocked/no emergency exits
 Unmounted cabinets/shelves
 Medical kits in every classrooms
 Bells/alarms
 Condemnable building (i.e. very old
structure, collapsing building
and/or prominent cracks on
classroom walls)
 Others (List as many as possible)