ENVIRONMENTAL CLUBS, SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENT, FIRE SAFETY

Fire safety is an important phenomenon which should be well understood among very member of the society, especially among teenagers. As a result, many secondary schools now have environmental safety club saddled with the responsibility of creating awareness about fire safety. The project work is aimed at ascertaining the effects of environmental clubs on the knowledge and attitude of secondary school students towards fire safety. The study was conducted in Baptist High School, Benin City among 60
participants. 30 of them were members of environmental safety club (junior secondary school students) and the other 30 students were not members of environmental safety club (senior secondary school students). Questionnaires with responses were presented using tables, while independent sampleT-Test was used to test the hypothesis, with significance level set at 0.05. The findings from the study indicated that students who were members of environmental safety club had better knowledge and attitude towards fire safety than students who were not members of environmental safety club. The study concluded that environmental safety club is a potent means to foster good attitudes and better knowledge about fire safety among secondary school students and recommended that every secondary school should have an environmental safety club.