KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET

WHO COLLABORATING CENTRE

Department of Public Health Sciences
Division of Social Medicine

ON
COMMUNITY SAFETY PROMOTIONSAFE COMMUNITY WEEKLY NEWSNo. 16
September 2005******* LETTER FROM THE EDITOR*********
Welcome to the sixteenth issue of Safe Community Weekly News in 2005, the electronic Safe
Community Weekly News is edited by the European Safe Community Network and the WHO
CC on Community Safety Promotion on behalf of Safe Communities Network.

WHAT IS NEW AT SAFE COMMUNITIES?
In this issue:DESIGNATION: Konjic, Bosnia & Herzegovina designated as Safe Community.
SITE VISIT: site visit to four Safe Community Programs in Taiwan.
COURSE: Ph.D. Course on Research in Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion
PROGRAM: Safety Promotion activities in Youth Park community, Jinan , China.
**************************************************************************

Konjic, Bosnia & Herzegovina designated as Safe Community number 86!

Professor Smajkic, Dr Rudic, Mayor Bubalo and Dr
The Mayor with the Safe Comm flag.
Svanström signing the agreement.
In a ceremony in the town Hall of Konjic Municipality in Bosnia & Herzegovina on August 30, 2005 Mayor
Emir Bubalo, Dr Aida Rudic and Professor Arif Smajkic signed the agreement with Professor Leif Svanström
from the WHO Collaborating Centre.
Konjic started its safe comm program very early- already in 1986 - but was interrupted during the Wars on
Balcan in the 1990s. Actually the 2nd Intl Safe Comm Conference was planned to be held there in 1992 but ofcourse had to be cancelled. Now we are more than happy to welcome Konjic into the family of designatedcommunities. More information on the program You will find on the homepage www.phs.ki.se/csp

The audience at the town Hall of Konjic in Bosnia
Herzegovina.

The inter- sectoral group that has worked to develop
the safe comm program in Konjic.

Site visit to four Safe community programs in Taiwan
The accreditation Site Visit to four communities in Taiwan was undertaken during late April 2005. The site visit
carried by Mr. Henk Harberts, chairman for the Australian Safe Communities Foundation. The Taiwan groupwhich includes leadership and support from Associate Professor Lui Pai and the Taiwan Injury Prevention andSafety Promotion Association are also planning the 3rd Asian Regional 'Safe Communities' Conference to beheld in 19-22 October 2005.

This is the Team at Fongbin - a feature being thesafety of wilderness /whitewater rafting..

The local team of safety promoters at Fongbin,
TaiwanAlishan Community - strongly focuses on local andtourism safety initiatives - pictured are the supporters
at the site visit...

Alishan rescue staff member demonstrates the newlifesaving devices located along the river bankthe big group of safe community supporters atDungshr Community in Taiwan

Police Bike Patrol in Dungshr - highlighting a strong
partnership between Police and Community

Some of the home safety volunteers, staff and local
resident in Neihu and Henk Harberts (chairman,Australian Safe Communities Foundation)

Site visit to safe public spaces in Neihu - a strong focus
on school, public space, retail, playground and homesafety issues.

……………………………………………………………………………………………….

2nd International Course - A Ph.D. Course
Research in Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion
23 January - 24 February 2006
Stockholm, Sweden
Application deadline: 1 October 2005

Course informationwww.phs.ki.se/csp/pdf/Courses%202005%202006/Research_in_Injury_Prevention_&_Safety_Promotion_2006%20PhD%20Course.pdf

Application form
www.phs.ki.se/csp/pdf/Courses%202005%202006/Application_form_PhD_Course_Safety_Promotion_2006.pdf

For further information:
moa.sundstrom@sll.se
Phone: +46 8 737 38 70
Fax: +46 8 33 46 93
Note! Scholarships
The Karolinska Institutet has no scholarships to offer.
We advice you to contact: http://www.phs.ki.se/csp/who_scholarships_en.htm

Safety promotion activities in Youth Park, Jinan, ChinaOn August 6, 2005, when the weather forecast said that the typhoon called "maisha" would
loaded the city of Jinan in the near future, the Promoting Committee on Safe Community ofYouth Park Community called on all the workers and residents to act immediately preventing
the typhoon from causing injuries.
The committee took some measures for the problem:
Firstly, we instructed some residents who have lower living conditions in studying the ways ofdealing with the natural disaster.
Secondly, we checked the places carefully where have some underlying dangers and settled
the problems in time.
Thirdly, we also opened a hot-line. If there were some difficulties for any people, they candial the number 87922374 and the committee will take measures in time to settle theproblems.
Although the typhoon did not happen, the measures we have taken are not useless. The
residents' safe awareness has been promoted.

On August 8, 2005, the Youth Park Sub-district Office carried out an activity together with theTraffic Police Team of Huaiyin District. The topic of the activity was “Propagating
Knowledge on Traffic Safety at Homes”. We had organized a special team which included 6officers from the Youth Park Sub-district Office, 5 traffic policemen and 7 volunteers from theresidents.
In the course of the activity, the members of the team visited many residents’ home togive out handbooks of traffic laws and regulations and materials of safe knowledge. They also
played disc of “Typical Cases of Traffic Accidents all over the Country” at homes of taxi
drivers. And their neighbours also came to see the shows. They absorbed lessons from thetraffic tragedies and announced that they will pay more attention to traffic safety. The teamplanned to propagate the knowledge to all the residents of the community.
For more information on the current and future activities please contact:
Youth Park Community, Mr. Dong Chuanshi, E-mail: qngy@263.net

Please send your activities, programs and reports via post/ e-mail to the editor:************************************************************************************************************************************************Yousif Rahim
European Safe Community NetworkE-mail: yousif.rahim@phs.ki.se

http://www.phs.kise/csp
http://www.safecommunity.net/*************************************************************************************************************************************************