Relationship of risk management and security management of human behaviour hazards within educational facilities : case study of International Islamic University Malaysia

Abstract

Murder, terrorism, manslaughter, bully, mayhem, abduction, rape, robbery, trespass, sexual harassment, you name it. All of these criminal doings are so common nowadays it fills up the front page of any news media globally every single day. Without anyone realizing, bit by bit, this antagonism acts has festered rapidly all over the world. A new school season begins and the parents will start to ask “will my children be safe at school?” They are worried. And no parents simply want to see their beloved child get hurt. In today’s world, there are no educational facilities in the whole world that have the audacity to give assurance that their students will always be safe and protected at all-time, and it is undoubtedly a consequential problem to everyone. Therefore, here arises a good security management comes to the fore with the support from the risk management implementation as they may help an organization or facility to mitigate and prevent all of these hazards and crimes from transpire within their vicinity. Henceforth, the aim laid down for the study is to investigate the existence of relationship between the practice of risk management and security management on human behaviour hazards especially within the facilities of International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) Gombak campus. A qualitative approach has been chosen and conducted and a total number of five respondents that comes from both risk management and security management area have gave a full cooperation and presented their responses on the issue. The results revealed that currently there is no integration between both risk management and security management implementation in IIUM. However, the respondents have provided some recommendations regarding the matter and express their believed on the correlation between both processes as it may potentially being integrated in the future practice. Keywords: risk management, security management, hazard, crime, educational facility