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Objectives. School safety has long been a subject of wide-ranging debate, but scientific research on the subject has, however, been rather limited. Although the English language research is comprehensive, in educational sciences school safety has not been a common subject of research. Matti Waitinen's (2011) dissertation is the first school safety culture investigative research in Finland. Waitinen images safety culture of Helsinki comprehensive school, and points out that the differences in security levels can be explained by a different safety cultures. The purpose of this thesis is to find out what are the most common needs to develop safety work that are encountered in comprehensive schools. Research methods. The target group here are four comprehensive schools and their safety groups. The study was carried out as so-called mixed - methods study, where the research data came from both quantitative and qualitative orientation. The data - collection in the first phase of the research was a questionnaire sent to schools, the purpose of which was to orient the school safety team members to the subject. The next step was, Tutor audit, which the Rescue Department of Keski-Uusimaa had developed. The audit, data were generated as quantitative and qualitative, structured group interview section yielded precise values of the school, the level of security, but on the other hand recorded and eventually transcribed conversation around the subject produced a material for the later content analysis. Results and conclusions. Based on the results it can be concluded that the safety work of comprehensive schools found plenty of areas for development. The audits on the basis of the values obtained, it can be said that none of the schools reached in the overall interpretation of the law formed through the minimum requirement, that is, the basic level three. There were found seven development themes: documentation, everyday and communally safety work, risk management, preparedness and independent development of safety, safety skills and safety training, as well as safety communication and paying attention to substitutes and stakeholders. Although the number of results can not be generalized to the comprehensive schools in general, the results can get an understanding of what kind of developments must be done in schools. The general conclusion is that the security work must continue to pay great attention to.