Department of Public Health Sciences
Division of Social MedicineIssue No.4

November 2007Dear Colleagues,
Thanks for your overwhelming support and response with the third issue of ‘Safe Community
Monthly News’.
In this issue we have included information of Safety related Conferences, Awards and Courses
around the world.
We are encouraging all Safe Communities, affiliate centres and certifying centres around thecontinents to send more news and event information. At the same time we are also
encouraging the individual safety experts to be united with fellows in your own country to plan,
implant ideas and establish more safe communities. We are ever ready to provide supports inthis regard.
Thanks for your continuous support for ‘Safe Community News’. Please send your news andevent information to the editor.
News and reports of this issue are appended below. Same issue is also available at our WHO
CC on CSP website: http://www.phs.ki.se/csp/who_newsletters_en.htm
With warm regards
Leif Svanström, Responsible Editor
Koustuv Dalal, EditorContent:
1. Seven Safe Communitiwes from China …………………………………
2. Safe School in Taiwan ……………………………… ………………………….
3. Queensland Safe Communities: 3rd Annual Forum ………………
4. Official site visits to China ………………………. ……………………………
5. Safe Community: Re-designation of Suwon, Korea……………..
6. Announcement: 2nd International Safety Media Awards …….
7.Forthcoming Safety and injury conferences ………………………..
8.Course News ………………………………………………………………………...

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1. New Members of International Safe Community Network - Seven
Communities from China
The international safe community network has seven new members from China recently.
Among them four from Chaoyang District, Beijing they are No.120 Wangjing Community,
No.121 Maizidian Community, No.122 Yayuncun Community and No.123 Jianwai Community.
One from Luan Coal Mine Group, Shanxi Province it is No.124 Luan Community. Another two
from Kailuan Coal Mine Group, Hebei Province they are No.125 Qianjiaying Community andNo.126 Jinggezhuang Community.
The designation ceremonies were held separately in Chaoying District, Beijing on 11thOctober, in Luan Coal Mine Group on 12th October and in Kailuan Coal Mine Group on 15thOctober. The seven communities were designated as “Safe Community” by Professor Joon Pil
Cho from Certifying Center for Safe Community at Ajou University School of Medicine inSuwon, Korea. Participants included leaders from Beijing municipal government, State
Administration of Work Safety, China Occupational Safety and Health Association, Luan Coal
Mine, Kailuan Coal Mine and Tangshan municipal government etc. Mr. Li Qiming, chairman ofHongkong Occupational Safety and Health Council and Mr. Cai Weish, vice chairman of OSHC
were also invited.

Designation ceremony in Chaoyang District, Beijing Mr. Su Min from Jianwai,
Mr. Wang Yi from Maizidian, Professor Joon Pil Cho, Mr.Yang Shuqi fromYayuncun, Ms. Han Junying from Wangjing (left to right).

Reporter: Professor Shumei Wang, Shanghai, China

2. Tungshih International Safe School: The First in Taiwan and in Asia
Network!
Tungshih Elementary School is located at Dungshr Township in the central of Taiwan. Thetownship has a total population of 55,000. Dungshr Township was designated as the 92nd
International Safe Community in 2005 while Tungshih Elementary School has worked a longtime to sustain the development of environment, safety culture and various conditions in theschool. In the beginning of Safe School Promotion program, there was a struggling period,
since the program must cover all the levels of school and a long-term plan according to theSafe School Matrix and Seven Criteria of the International Safe School. Therefore, the school
integrated various kinds of resources to make a comprehensive plan for building a safer andhealthier school for students, staff and neighbouring residency.

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9thOctober,2007,Mr.
Vosskuhler, Chair of International
Safe
SchoolsofWHO
Collaborating
CentreonCommunity
SafetyPromotion,
made an official site visit to theschool. The school showed afruitful result in fostering an
Principal Chiang addressed aMrs. Ye, Mayor of Dungshr
authentic community-based safety
welcome message and introduced
Township, addressed a welcome
promotion program. The program
honored guests.
message.
ofsitevisit
included
thepresentations made by four main leaders of different types of safety, a thoroughdocumentation check, playgrounds designed for different groups of students, exclusive Injury
Surveillance system for school, commuting paths around school and extended to neighbouringresidency and improved road condition and parents’ pick-up areas, etc. Mr. Shing-Shu Huang,
Executive Director of Dungshr Centre for Safety Promotion, is the leading role on fostering theDungshr Safe Community and Safe School Promotion Program. He has continued to share theexperience and involve more communities in Safe Community Movement. Mrs. Ye, Mayor ofDongshih Township, has been appointed as the leader of Dungshr Safe Community andcommitted to support the Network Movement, which showed that Dungshr Safe Community
has stepped into a new milestone. The Designation Ceremony of Tungshih International Safe
School will be on 9th November, 2007. Welcome all the Network members to join us!

Mr. Vosskuhler made an official
announcement of the result of site visit inTungshih Elementary School.

Mr. Shing-Shu Huang (Charles), Executive Director of Dungshr Center
for Safety Promotion, made a commitment to sustain the promotion
both in Safe Community and Safe School and assist more communities
and schools to develop under the leadership of WHO CC on Community
Safety Promotion.

Reporter:
Reporter: Ling. Taiwan

3. Queensland Safe Communities: 3rd Annual Forum
Summary Report
Queensland Safe Communities 3rd Annual ForumThe Essential Role of Industry in Promoting Safer Communities:
Child Resistant Packaging and preventing child poisoning
It was with immense pride that we hosted the 3rd Annual Safe Communities Forum on Friday,
26 October 2007, sponsored by Delfin Lend Lease
The Poisons Prevention Forum was specifically focused on child resistant closures, thechallenges of effective closures for a range of poisonous products and the challenge of creatingsafer blister packaging.

3There were a number of epiphanies.
epiphanies. The two that stood out the most for me were:
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The wonderful strength and determination of Lisa, Harrison’s mother, as she sharedwith us the horrific events resulting in Harrison’s injuries after accessing dishwashingpowder two years ago, and her continued leadership in sharing this story in order toadvocate for change.

2.

The combination of people around the table. A few years ago, the group that would
have been involved in a poisons prevention discussion would have comprised childhealth advocates, researchers, practitioners and health representatives. This year, inaddition to that dedicated group, we had representatives of industry, private companies
and developers, all of whom played a pivotal role in moving the discussion from theinjury facts, to what we can do to make a difference in a real sense.

This is the true essence of safe communities – and in line with the six indicators which are aneffective guide to addressing community safety and risk management.
Some key questions and actions
actions from the forum:1.

The need for a balance between active versus passive interventions. Changes to CRC
and blister packs are passive. They need to be balanced with active interventions suchas education about the potential dangers of certain products, storage, etc.

2.

Importance of quality assurance (QA) at the tooling and post production stages. An
example was presented about voluntary QA testing adopted by some companies. The
challenge is that there are no other companies trained in this QA process. Anotherchallenge
isthelackofaccreditation
requirements
QA
assessors.

3.

How do we monitor imported products (containers and closures) for quality?

4.

The importance of taking into consideration the particular needs and challenges ofdifferent communities. Examples were given by Kidsafe NT, about the effects of intenseheat and sun on plastics.

5.

Industry representatives agreed to work in partnership with other delegates to identify
existing containers and caps on the market and to examine the potential to invest in
research toward an improved, safer product with a single unambiguous point of closure.

6.

Discussion about how the point of closure is to be identified – auditory, kinaesthetic orvisual means? There are benefits to all these possibilities depending on the user.
Research with the industry will help develop this further.

7.

Role of advertising in illustrating and supporting, non-conflicting messages especiallyabout the storage of dangerous products. We need to engage the advertising industry.

8.

What does ‘keep out of reach of children’ actually mean?

For the more comprehensive report on how the forum addressed the six indicators, and toview the speeches and power point presentations, please visit our website and go to theconferences/past in the menu section
Be safe, happy and well
Regards

Director, Queensland Safe Communities Support Centre (QSCSC)Manager, Queensland Injury Surveillance Unit (QISU)

www.safecommunitiesqld.org

www.qisu.org.au4

4. Official site visits to four communities in Shanghai
From 10th to 14th September an experts group from the Certifying Center for Safe Communityin Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, Korea, delivered official site visits to fourcommunities in Shanghai. The experts group was led by Professor Joon Pil Cho from Korea,
other members were Carolyne Coggan from New Zealand, Nam Soo Park from Korea andShumei Wang from China. The four communities in Shanghai are: Hong Qiao Town (Min HangDistrict), Jiang An Distirct, Kang Jian Street-ward (Xu Hui District) and Hua Mu Street-ward (PuDong New Area).
On 10th September, Hong Qiao Community presented five reports on injury profile and theiractivities on community safety promotion, which are Safe Community Building in Hong Qiao
Town, Water Way Safety Project, Physical Activities Safety, Home Safety, and The Evaluationof Safe Community Building Using Quantitative Method. The experts also watched a shortvideo on safe community building in Hong Qiao Town.
In the afternoon the experts visited fourprogramsites
whichareHongLuKindergarten (children’s safety project),
Waterside of PuHuiTang River (waterwaysafety project), Community Culture Center(roadsafetyproject)
andJingTing
Neighbourhood (home safety project).

Left: Residents exercise spots in JingTing neighbourhood,
Hong Qiao Town.

On 11th September, the experts visited
three programs sites of Jing An District.
They were WeiHaiLu Kindergarten (children’ssafetyproject),
NewFuKangLi
Neighbourhood(elderlysafetyandenvironment renovation) and BeiTai Telecom
Building (white-collars safety including
safety facilities in the building and first aid
training). In the afternoon, Jina An District
presented injury profiles briefly and theiractivities of Community Safety Promotion
since last several years.

On
12th
September,
Kang
Jian
Community presented three reports: 1.
.
Building of Safe Community in Kang Jian
Left: Workplace safety programs at DaNeng Biscuit
Street-ward, 2. Injury Surveillance, and 3.
Company in Kang Jian Street-ward. Prof. Nam Soo Park,Prof. Joon Pil Cho, Prof. Shumei Wang, and Prof. Carolyn
Experimental Base for Working Safety:
Coggan (left to right)
Daneng Biscuit Company. In the afternoon
program sites were visited.
On 13thSeptember, in the morning first of all
experts were invited to join The 2nd Safety
Cultural Festival Closing Ceremony andPhysical Exercise Show by Middle and Elderly
People in Citizen Square at Hua Mu
Community. And then, brief injury profileand their activities of community safety
promotion were presented. In the afternoon
experts visited four program sites whichwere Hua Mu Hospital (injury surveillance),
Right: Professor Joon Pil Cho announced an opening
Youyou Neighborhood (elderly safety andaddress of the Second Hua Mu Safety Culture Festivalfire prevention), Liuyi Kindergarten (childrenClosing Ceremony on 13th September.
safety), and LianYang Citizen Center (roadReporter:
Reporter: Professor Shumei Wang, Shanghai, China

55. Safe Community: Re-designation of Suwon, Korea.
Suwon City, which is designated as a Safe Community in 2002, has been re-designated as amember of the International Safe Community Network on 4th October 2007.
Before re-designation, on-site evaluation has been carried out from 2nd to 4th October byexperts group including Professor Leif Svanstrom from the WHO Collaborating Center onCommunity Safety Promotion in Karolinska Institute (Stockholm, Sweden), Professor Lu Pai
from the Institute of Injury Prevention and Control, Taipei Medical University (Taipei, Taiwan),and Professor Joon Pil Cho from the Certifying Center for Safe Community at Ajou University
School of Medicine (Suwon, Korea).
Suwon Safe Community project has been going on for 5 years after the designation in 2002.
The program has asked for the cooperation of diverse groups or sectors during such process
we tried to find methods to understand and satisfy the demands of diverse groups within thecommunity. Suwon City developed various strategies to injury prevention and the priority wasset for the development of the actual injury prevention program. Based on this plans for
program promotion in the local society were established. Also, the community resources took
an important part in the actual promotion of the project and carried out various injuries
prevention programs in the community. As the result of our activity, Suwon safe community
programs had a good result related to decreasing traffic injuries.

After signing on the agreement of re-designation of Suwon:
Prof. Joon Pil Cho, Mayor Yong-seo Kim, Prof. Leif
Svanstrom and Chairperson of Suwon City Council (fromright to left).

Prof. Lu Pai, Prof. Leif Svanstrom and Prof.
Joon Pil Cho answered the questions fromcommunity practitioners, policy makers andhealth professionals.

Related to the re-designation ceremony, Korean Safe Community Network meeting was heldwith keynote speeches of Professor Leif Svanstrom, Professor Lu Pai, and Professor Shumei
Wang from Fudan University School of Public Health (Shanghai, China). After Keynotespeeches, there was a panel discussion from communities, policy makers, and healthprofessionals.
Reporter: Professor NamSoo Park, Suwon, Korea

6. 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 (18and under) and three categories: print, video and audio.

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7. Forthcoming Safety and Injury Conferences
2007••PrePre-Conference Seminar on Injury Surveillance Of the 4 th Asian Regional Conference
on Safe Communities Bangkok, 21 November
4th Asian Regional Conference on Safe Communities
2222-24 November 2007 Bangkok, Thailand

Incorporating Global Thinking, Cultivating Local Strategy
Abstracts Submission: Dead Line: 31 May 2007
•2525-26 November PostPost-ConferenceTsunami
ConferenceTsunami visit
For information:
Dr. Adisak Plitponkarnpim raapp@mahidol.ac.th
Mahippathorn Chinnapha johnny@stjohn.ac.th
www.safethai2007.com•Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) National Home Injury
Prevention Congress, 2007, Thistle Hotel, Cheltenham, England, 12-13 November
2007. http://www.rospa.com/home/index.htm> or contact events@rospa.com

2008•Young People, Crime and Community Safety: engagement and early intervention,intervention,
Melbourne, 25-26 February 2008.
http://www.aic.gov.au/conferences/2008-YoungPeople/•Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) 73rd Road Safety Congress Securing Wider Engagement in Road Safety. Crowne Plaza Hotel, Glasgow, Scotland,
February 25-27, 2008.
Visit: http://www.rospa.com/road/index.htm#call or contact events@rospa.com .

•The 9th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion
1515-18 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 2727-28 May 2008,
2008 Oslo, Norway
For information: peter.koren@chello.no•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

8. Courses
Courses•

4th International Course - A Ph.D. Level Course
Analysis”””Research in Injury Prevention
Prevention and Safety Promotion: Designs, Methods & Analysis
21 January - 22 February 2008, Stockholm, Sweden.
Karolinska Catalogue Code: 1888
Application deadline: 15 November 2007

For further information:
Course Organizer: Reza Mohammadi, MD, MPH, PhD
Email: Reza.Mohammadi@ki.se,Phone: +46 8 7373775, Fax: +46 8 33 46 93, +46 8 30 73 51

7•'International Course on Transportation Planning and Safety'; 1010-16 December 2007
The course will be held in Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India.
For more information visit: http://web.iitd.ac.in/~tripp/course/courseRframe.htm
Contact: Mrs. Arati Walia
E.mail: awconfer@vsnl.com
Phone: +91-11-26849399, 26919377, Fax: 2684 8343¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤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 )8