Department of Public Health Sciences
Division of Social Medicine

Safe Community Monthly News
Issue No.8March 2008^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^In this issue
Youth ParkKIDS safety
Refsanjan Preparing for Safe
Community Designation
Nordic Safe Comm Conference
2nd International Media Awards
Conferences
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Dear Colleagues,
Next week we have a great event: The 9th World
Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion
15-18 March 2008, Mérida, Yucatan Mexico. So, we canenrich future SCMN issues with lots of interesting news
from Americas.
Thanks for your continuous support for ‘Safe
Community News’. Please send your news and event
information to the editor.
News and reports of this issue are appended below.
Same issue is also available at our WHO Collaborating
Centre on Community Safety Promotion website:
http://www.phs.ki.se/csp/who_newsletters_en.htm
With warm regards
Leif Svanström, Responsible Editor
Koustuv Dalal, Editor

News from Youth Park Safe Community, China
Recently, the city of Jinan has gone through sleet days. Additionly, continual cold weather has frozen
pipelines split in some residents' houses ,and water dripped from the pipe formed icicle hang from thebalcony and wall. Those icicles are very dangerous and it's likely to harm residents.
According to the safe concept of “Put prevention first” the Youth park community publicized thedanger from icicles in the administrative region, reminding them to avoid walking under the icicles andimprove safe consciousness. In order to solve the problem at the bottom, the community workers
examined the possibilities of danger from icicles carefully and thoroughly, and cleared them away.
On, Feb 1st, 2008, the Youth Park Community arranged professional workers to clear all the icicles ofthe NO.6 building of Wulipaifang community of the administrative region. Seeing all the icicles wereremoved, Wu Shengkun, one resident of the area, said: "Icicles are gone, and our anxious about thedanger is also gone. It is the community workers make our living environment much safer!"1

Icicles like this are very dangerous and likely toharm residents

Professional worker was clearing icicles from thewall

Accreditation means greater safety for KIDS
Primary school pupils across Australia will learn and play in safer environments with the official
endorsement of the KIDS Foundation as Australia’s first National Safe School Affiliate Agency at aceremony in Melbourne, Australia, 26th February.
With injuries leading the cause of death for children aged between zero and 14 years, the Safe School
Community International Accreditation Program (SSCIAP) is instrumental in reducing these figures inschool communities.
As the national leader in childhood injury prevention, the Ballarat-based KIDS Foundation provides
resources to more than 7000 primary schools and delivers quality school and community based safety
education programs to more than 300 primary schools each year.
“We are pleased and proud that our commitment to childhood safety and accident prevention has
resulted in such prestigious accreditation,” KIDS Foundation founder Susie O’Neill said during thesigning at ArtPlay, Birrarung Marr (next to Federation Square), Melbourne.
“We are committed to developing inclusive, cooperative and strong Safe School Community Networks
across Australia to further improve the educational experiences of young people by ensuring they
operate in a safe environment.”
With the official signing of the document, KIDS Foundation becomes Australia’s only Safe School
Affiliate Agency and thus takes on the responsibility of supporting schools in their bid to achieve Safe
School Community status. To gain accreditation these schools and their communities must becommitted to continually striving to build safer surroundings and to developing a culture of appropriate
risk management for young people.

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Ms O’Neill said schools seeking accreditation would have to meet strict criteria and show they had along term commitment to improving child safety.
“Once accredited they will be recognised internationally as a Safe School,” Ms O’Neill said. This could
lead to major benefits when promoting the school to prospective parents and when seeking additionalfunding.
Joining KIDS Foundation for this auspicious occasion were members of the legendary Oarsome
Foursome (Australia’s best known rowing team), Government and Safe Community leaders, students
from KIDS Foundation Safety Club schools and New Zealand-based SSCIAP Accrediting Centre’s
Chair Dr Carolyn Coggan. For more information please visit www.safeschoolciap.org

Back row: Mike McKay, James Tomkins and Drew Ginn (from Oarsome Foursome).
Middle row: Tania Peters and Dr Carolyn Coggan (from Safe Communities FoundationNew Zealand) and Susie O’Neill (KIDS Foundation Founder). Front row: QueenieDang, Andrew Le, Christian Marroquin, Charlie Ettershank and Brendan Moloney(students from Holy Rosary Primary School, Kensington, Melbourne).

Refsanjan; preparing for safecommunity
Rafsanjan city is situated at the central part of Iran at the middle of central desert. Rafsanjan is theworld famous for pistachios. Population of Rafsanjan is about 268499 with incidence rate of injury of25/1000 population.
The safe community movement is initiated on 2003, well advocated among the local stake holders andthe safe community committee is routinely launches, Community involvement with the partnership ofNGOs active in safe community program is well defined.
The 11th safe community committee launched in the Rafsanjan at the governor office, the chancellorof the Rafsanjan medical university and the deputy for health along with 13 other members are activelyinvolved in the program. The director of injury prevention at the ministry of health was participated in3

the session. The resolution stated for preparing the international safe community designation forRafsanjan in 2008.

The safe community committee: the Rafsanjan governor along withthe chancellor of the medical university and the deputy for health.

Announcement: Nordic Conference for Safe Communities 27 – 28 May 2008
There is no doubt that the Safe Communities model has been successful and has made it possible toharvest good results in health gains as well as in economic gains. One question remaining is wether themodel has gained the users the full gains of its potential or there is still room for improvements. Good
results and satisfaction must not keep us from using also the critical points of view, as we want to do inthe conference.

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The conference will take place at Brunstad Conference Centre on the west side of the Oslo Fiord May
27. – 28. Colleagues from Safe Communities and all others interested in the development of Healththrough the development of safety through preventive measures are most welcome to attend.
The conference is open to poster presentations within the frames of the conference themes. Poster
presentations can be in Scandinavian languages as well as in English. Applications for Poster
Presentations should be received by April 1.
The main speeches will be in Scandinavian languages, we ask the presentators to bring Power point
presentations in the language used as well as in English, the presentations will be run simultaneously.
Plenary discussions are open for debate in Scandinavian languages as well as in English.
Kindly contact Jan Harsem, P.O.Box 23, 1371 Asker to register poster presentations. For furtherinformation, contact Jan Harsem Tel -47 66 98 97 85 or mobile + 47 95 77 11 99
or Carina Harsem + 47 92 05 41 00. E-mail jan@harsem.noAll applications for conference participation must be received by March 25th.

Announcement: 2nd International Safety Media Awards
The Second International Seguridad/Safety Media Awards (ISMA) will be heldin Merida, Yucatan, Mexico March 16-18, 2008.
Guidelines and entry information is available at www.teachingstory.com. There is no fee tosubmit media, and no limit to the number of print, audio or video pieces you
can enter. The organizers are accepting entries in two divisions: Adult and Youth (18 and under) andthree categories: print, video and audio.

Forthcoming Safety and Injury Conferences
2008•The 9th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion
15-18 March 2008, Mérida, Yucatan Mexico
http://www.safety2008mx.info/
Abstracts: Submission deadline was until July 13, 2007
Early Bird Registration: will be extended until July 30, 2007
Online Registration and Payment is available at http://www.safety2008mx.info
Conference Secretariat at: safety2008@insp.mx•7th Nordic Safe Community Conference 27-28 May 2008, Oslo, Norway
For information: peter.koren@chello.no•

ISVIP Conference on Alcohol, Children and Injuries“Children and Injuries” International Conference, Cape Town, 31 August – 3 September 2008.
International Society for Violence and Injury Prevention.
5•17th International Safe Communities Conference
20th – 23 October 2008, Christchurch, New Zealand
For further information visit: http://www.safecom2008.org.nz/email: contact@scfnz.org.nz or robyn.steel@ccc.govt.nz

CourseRESEARCH EDUCATION Course 2008
Ph.D. Level COURSE:
5th International Course - A Ph.D. Level Course
Research in Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion: Designs, Methods & Analysis
20 October - 21 November 2008
Stockholm, Sweden
7,5 Credits
Application deadline: 15 April
For further information: Course Organizer: Reza Mohammadi, MD, MPH, PhD
Email: Reza.Mohammadi@ki.se
Phone: +46 8 7373775, Fax: +46 8 30 73 51¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤WHO Collaborating Centre for Community Safety Promotion
Karolinska Institutet
Department of Public Health Sciences
Division of Social Medicine
Norrbacka 2nd Floor, SE-171 76, Stockholm, Sweden.
Communication: Koustuv Dalal (Email: koustuv.dalal@ki.se )6