News from 2007
December 2007 Sign up to the first edition of Injury Prevention News (IPN)! IPN is the joint electronic newsletter of the Injury Observatory for Britain and Ireland (IOBI) and the Collaboration for Accident Prevention and Injury Control (CAPIC) The purpose of this newsletter is to support injury prevention practitioners working in all areas of injury prevention and dealing with all age groups. IPN is a FREE source of information on new initiatives, publications of statistics, research findings, opportunities and training events and will highlight new additions to IOBI and CAPIC websites. ................................................................... EuroSafe in partnership with the Regional office of the World Health Organisation release the first three of nine policy briefings on injury prevention. To download the policies and find out more click here ..................................................................... HOME SAFETY EQUIPMENT HELP FOR VULNERABLE FAMILIES The Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) has just announced an £18 million national home safety equipment scheme to provide safety equipment for vulnerable families. For more information click here
November 2007 NOW AVAILABLE - European countries scored on child and adolescent injury prevention Child Safety Report Cards have been produced by Eurosafe for 18 countries, summarising each country's performance to July 2006 with respect to the level of safety provided to children and adolescents through national level policy. They describe:
1) how well a country is doing to make it safe for children,
2) what priority issues need to be addressed, and
3) which good practices should be adopted, implemented and enforced to prevent accidental injuries and to save more children’s lives. .................................................................... Links to ROSPA's Driver Training Tools can now be found in the Injury Prevention Tools Section ................................................................... Injury Prevention Factsheets, Advice and Information produced by ROSPA, can be found in the Injury Prevention Guides Section ................................................................... New Conferences and Events listed. ................................................................... New publications added to the systematic reviews of injury prevention database.
October 2007 NEW - Road Safety Wale's newsletter 'Road Safety Low Down' can now be found in the Newsletter section. ................................................................... NEW - Safer Fireworks a website launched by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (ROSPA) containing all the information neccesary to make sure your firework parties are fun rather than fraught with danger. As well as the Firework Code, the site includes a guide on how to organise a display and how to deal with specific types of fireworks from rockets to Catherine Wheels. ...................................................................... New publications added to the systematic reviews of injury prevention database. ...................................................................... NOW AVAILABLE – YouthSafe systematic review of the available literature on preventing injuries in young people can be found in the ‘What Works in Preventing Injuries Section’
September 2007
NOW AVAILABLE - Analyses produced by the Injury Observatory comparing the rates and trends in deaths as a result of injury between Scotland, Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, Wales, England and the nine English regions.
Interesting findings include:
- Mortality rates for all injuries are significantly higher in Scotland, Republic of Ireland & Wales compared to England.
- Homicides are significantly higher in Scotland compared to Wales, England & Republic of Ireland.
- Falls are significantly higher in Scotland and Republic of Ireland compared to Wales and England.
Analyses of deaths due to Injury can be found in the Research and Statistics section.
................................................................................ NOW AVAILABLE - Presentation's from 'The First Injury Prevention Conference for the UK and Ireland: Research into Practice for Child and Adolescent Injury, 13 - 14 September 2007, Bristol'
Details can be found in the Conferences and Events section.
............................................................................ New Conferences and Events listed.
............................................................................ August 2007 newsletter from Child Accident Prevention Trust (CAPT) can be found in the Newsletters section.
............................................................................ This year’s European Week for Health and Safety at Work 2007 campaign ‘Lighten the Load’ takes place between 22 – 26 October 2007 – details can be found in the National Weeks section.
........................................................................... Road Safety Week takes place 5 - 11 November 2007 - details can be found in the National Weeks section.
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Child Safety Week takes place 23 - 29 June 2008 - details can be found in the National Weeks section.
28th August 2007
The home safety and hazard assessment tool SafeHome is now online. SafeHome assesses and provides an instant report on how safe your home which you can complete.
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