KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET

WHO COLLABORATING CENTRE

Department of Public Health Sciences
Division of Social Medicine

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COMMUNITY SAFETY PROMOTIONSAFE COMMUNITY WEEKLY NEWSNo. 17
September 2005******* LETTER FROM THE EDITOR*********
Welcome to the seventeenth issue of Safe Community Weekly News in 2005, the electronic
Safe Community Weekly News is edited by the European Safe Community Network and theWHO CC on Community Safety Promotion on behalf of Safe Communities Network.

WHAT IS NEW AT SAFE COMMUNITIES?
In this issue:

NEWSLETTER: Safe Community Weekly News in Bangla and French
PRESENTATIONS: 14th International Conference on Safe Communities, NorwaySEMINAR: 2nd International Seminar on Injury Research Methods, South Africa
SAFE SCHOOLS: Woodend School Received Safe School Accreditation, Australia
CONFERENCE: The 6th Nordic Safe Community Conference, Karlstad, Sweden
CONFERENCE: 1st International Conference on Road Traffic Accidents, Iran**************************************************************************

Safe Community Weekly NewsAlso is Bangla and French
Dear colleagues,It is a great pleasure to announce the expanding of Safe Community Weekly News. Since
the last week (issue No. 16) of 2005 we have started to edit the Safe Community WeeklyNews in 14 languages (Arabic, Bangla, Chinese, English, French, Greek, Japanese,Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Spanish, and Turkish)
In the last month colleagues from two different institutions in Bangladesh and Mauritius
have joined our team to make the Safe Community Weekly News accessible to readers andmembers of the Safe Community networks around the world.
The new members are:
Shakeel Panchoo
Project Coordinator- Community
Safety Promotion.
Community Development
Programme Agency(CODEPA)NGO
Tel:(230)795-0049
Fax: (230)210-6093
E-mail: shkpan@yahoo.com

Salim Mahmud Chowdhury,
Epidemiologist
Centre for Injury Prevention and Research,
Bangladesh (CIPRB)
Tel +880-2-8113658 / +880-189428758 (M)Fax: +880-2-9569234
E-mail: smchow_dhaka@yahoo.com
chowdhury@ciprb.org

All the issues are available on our websites www.phs.ki.se/csp, www.safecommunity.net.
Please feel free to download the files, circulate it and we are looking forward to hearing fromyou; comments, suggestions and corrections. Your contributions are highly appreciated andwe would like to have more members in out team to make Safe Community Weekly Newsavailable in more languages.

Posters and Presentations from the 14SafeComm Conferencewww.safecommunity.net
Presentations from the 14th International Conference on Safe Communities Conference are
now available -- See the International Safe Community Network homepage
www.safecommunity.net click on conferences. The event took place on June 13 -15, 2005 at
the Grieghallen, Bergen, Norway.
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FIRST ANNOUNCEMENTS2nd International Seminar on Injury Research Methods
6 - 7 April 2006
The European Consumer Safety Association (ECOSA) & the Medical Research Council are proud toannounce the next international seminar on Injury Research Methods taking place in April 2006 inCape Town, South Africa.
This seminar is being organised in conjunction with the 8th World Conference on Injury Control andSafety Promotion in Durban, South Africa (April 2-5, 2006)
Dates: 6th and 7th April, 2006
Place: Conference Centre, Medical Research Council (MRC) Cape Town, South Africa
About the Seminar
The aim of the seminar is to exchange knowledge and experiences on concepts and methods applied ininjury research. The focus is on methodology instead of findings. Attention will be paid to measuring
the economic costs of injuries, evidence based injury prevention, quantifying disabilities, translating
the results of research into practice and data collection. The seminar should increase synergy between
researchers in the field of injury prevention and safety promotion.
Who should attend:
All researchers (from resourced and less resourced areas) in the field of injury prevention and safety
promotion, who are interested in the current state of affairs concerning methodology and futuredevelopments.
Abstracts
For each subject two keynote speakers will present their opinions, followed by short paper
presentations (app. 10 minutes each).Closing date for abstracts for the short paper presentations is 1
December 2005.
For further information, please visit our website: www.mrc.ac.za/conference/ecosa/ or contact:
Events Co-ordinator
Nadine van Rensburg
Medical Research Council
P. O. Box 19070
Tygerberg
7505
Tel: +27 21 938 0880
Fax: +27 21 938 0395
E-mail: nadine.van.rensburg@mrc.ac.za

Handling all logistical queries
Saakje Mulder
Chair – Scientific Committee
Consumer Safety Institute
P O Box 75169, 1070 AD Amsterdam
Tel No: +31 20 511 4557
Fax No: +31 20 669 2831
Email: S.Mulder@consafe.nl

By Tania Peters Strategic Advisor Safe Schools,
Safe Communities Foundation New Zealand, SCFNZ.

At a 'magnificent' celebration on the 11th August, Woodend School received formal
accreditation as Australasia's first World Health Organisation (WHO) Safe School.
Principal Graeme Barber says the night was an amazing experience, with around 1000
people attending - including all the students and their families, invited dignitaries andguests from around New Zealand.
The school's head boy, Matthew Price and head girl,
Brittany Farrant, delivered a power point presentation,
explaining the school's journey to accreditation. Each of
the school's three syndicates presented safety items tothe gathering.
"We had a lot of comments of how great it was to see thekids living and expressing the safety message we haveadopted - and how emotionally secure and happy they
seemed which is very important to us."The Safe School concept is fostered andpromoted by the WHO Safe Community
TheMovement
www.intlsafeschools.com
Peaceful Resources’ Center is home to theInternational
SafeSchoolsProgramme.
SCFNZ is the Safe Schools affiliate support
centre and certifying authority for New
Zealand and the wider Australian region. Dr
Carolyn Coggan of SCFNZ led the formal
accreditation ceremony, and was joined byspeakers Mayor Jim Gerard, Waimakariri MP
Clayton Cosgrove and ACC General Manager
Darrin Goulding in congratulating Woodend
School on their exceptional efforts.

Receiving of the accreditation certificate
awarded by Dr Carolyn Coggan SCFNZ,
August 11th 2005Woodend School has had a remarkable turnaround from 2001 when the school embarked
on its safety upgrade - after serious concerns were raised about the emotional andphysical well being of its students. There were problems with children at risk crossing
the Main North Road, being bullied by others, or in danger of being injured by unsafe
playground equipment or behaviour.
Scenes from the accreditation event

"Both staff and parents were expressing concern, so we decided todevelop a model that looked at both the emotional and physical safetyof our students. We started by gathering data to identify the needs,
and then talked to parents, staff and students to narrow down what thereal issues were. We then started to methodically work our way throughmaking changes," says Mr. Barber.
The school began working with a number of organisations with a focus
around injury prevention, emotional safety, anti-bullying and roadsafety to develop an integrated approach to safety within the school.
Pupils too were heavily involved in driving the changes. These included
moving the designated safe crossing point, painting flush medians,
cycle lanes and a no parking area. In the classroom, students set
learning goals. They also designed a new playground and establishedrules for its use as well as doing playground duty to identify andreward safe play. As a result, rough play and unintentional injuries
have been reduced by 50%.
With the help of SCFNZ, the school applied to the WHO
International Safe Schools Network to become a WHO Safe
School. Dr Carolyn Coggan director of SCFNZ says, “Thisschool is an excellent example of how a community
development approach within a school setting can improvesafety for staff, students & the wider community. It is also
important to recognise that the school is in one of New
Zealand’s WHO accredited safe communities, Waimakariri,
and the local council deserves to be acknowledged for that”.
“In their application Woodend School describes how over 19 programmes have resulted
in improvements to the health & safety of students & staff. Woodend School has
certainly raised the bar for schools world wide which are looking for WHO
accreditation,” she said.
Mr. Barber says. “Providing the best possible learning
experience for every child in a safe physical and emotional
environment was always the goal of the safety programme.
The accolades the school has received following itsachievements has been an 'amazing spin-off'. There is a real
sense of participation, ownership and pride around learningwith the safe environment that exists in and around theschool. The school will continue its journey by regularly
reviewing and improving all its policies, programmes andpractices”.

View Woodend School,www.woodend.school.nz

The 6th Nordic Safe
Community Conference
Karlstad, Sweden,
9-11 November 2005

www.srv.se/nscc

First International Conference on Road
Traffic Accident which will be held on
21-22 December at Tehran University
campus for more information contact:
Dr. AR Moghisi, amoghisi@mailcity.com
or login to www.ut.ac.ir/tac2005

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

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