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The purpose of this study is to measure kindergarten teachers‘ level of knowledge about safety, their experience with safety training and reflect the results in future teacher education. Questions for this study are as follows: 1. What is the current status of the teacher’s safety training? 2. What is the level of safety knowledge? 3. What difference are there in level of knowledge according to each teacher’s attributes? This study is based on the survey of 315 kindergarten teachers in Suwon city and Kyungi-do area. Classified according to teaching experience, 62 teachers have teaching experience of less than 1 year, 118 teachers 1-3 years, 51 teachers 3-5 years, 84 teachers more than 5 years. According to age, 130 teachers are under 25, 105 teachers 25-30, 38 teachers 30-35, 42 teachers more than 35. According to level of education, 266 teachers went to 2 year college, 44 teachers are 4 year university graduates, 5 teachers have master’s degree. According to employment, 23 teachers work in state-run institutions, 277 teachers in private institutions, 15 teachers in various other organizations. The Method of this research was a survey used in Hong. Kil Hoe(2001) asking about knowledge of children safety education. The survey divides necessary safety knowledge into three categories, ’knowledge about facility’ ’knowledge about first aid’, and ’knowledges about other safety measures’ The survey also includes general questions about the background. such as age, education, teaching experience, job status, type of institution employed in. and safetys training experience. The survey was distributed in March-April of 2002. Total of 315 returned survey were run through SPSS pc+ for analysis. excluding surveys with insufficient answers. Each correct answer was treated as 1 point. To analyze the data M. SD, percentage. ANOVA, step-wise regression methods were used. Following are the results. First, there were more teachers who received safety training than those who did not. Of those with training experience, first aid training was most popular in number, followed by fire safety, traffic safety. facility safety. Second, level of safety knowledge was average. ’other safety knowledge’ received most points, followed by facility safety and first aid safety. Third, although there seemed to be a slight difference in level of knowledge according to age. level of education, job status, type of institution, it was not significant enough to generalize analytically. Forth, teacher’s age was determined to be the predictor of teacher’ level of safety knowledge.
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