Department of Public Health Sciences
Division of Social Medicine

Safe Community Monthly NewsIssue 29

December 2009
In this issue

New Safe Community designation

1

News from USA

2

Report from Australia

2News from China2, 4

Re‐designation in Estonia

3Community Safety Month

3

Site visit, Taiwan

4Forthcoming Conferences

4

Dear Colleagues,
We are proud to introduce you another new 8 Safe Communities.
We have reports from Australia, China, Norway, USA, Taiwan, .
Safe Communities movement is now its full pace!
Wish you a happy festive season!!
News and reports of this issue are appended below. Same issue is also avail‐able 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

Designation of 8 Safe Communities andin Beijing, China

5th Asian Regional Conference on Safe Communities,

First time in history, 8 Safe Communities has been designated at the same ceremony on 18th October 2009 in the eve of
5th Asian Regional Conference on safe Communities. A big ceremony of designation was held during the conference aswell. The international safe community network welcomed 8 new members from China. They are Huaiyin District ofJinan (161), Huaihai community (162), Xinjiangwancheng community (163) and Zhangjiang community (164) ofShanghai, Honey Lake community (165) of Shenzhen, Balizhuang community (166), Anzhen community (167) and
Xiaoguan community (168) of Beijing.
From 18th to 20th Oct 2009, the 5th Asian Regional Conference on Safe Communities has been successfully held inBeijing, China. Around 100 delegates from overseas and 300 delegates from all over China attended the conference.
Safety, Health, Harmony which was the theme of the event was the core of discussion. In the opening ceremony
leaderships and representatives from Satate Administration of Work Safety, China Occupational Safety and Health
Association, Ministry of Health, WHO Office in Beijing, WHO Collaborating Centre on Community Safety Promotion,
Asian Safe Communtiy Network, et al delivered warm speech. Over 50 delegated shared their experiences andachievements in the process of promoting safety in their own communities. Members from Asian network also gathered
together to discuss concerned issues.
Reporter: Shumei Wang , China.

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Bottom: Dr. Harbert from MelbourneBrampton Safe city: Taking Community Partnership to the Next Level
On May, 4, 2009, Brampton Safe City Association opened the doors to its new Centre for Community Safety. A first ofits kind in North America, this 2,300 square foot facility is greatly enhancing the city of Brampton’s capacity to help citi‐zens, schools and businesses address their safety concerns. The centre brings an impressive number of new resources tothe community: A training and meeting facility to teach people how to stay safe from crime and injury; A ‘one‐stop’ lo‐
cation where citizens can obtain educational materials (printed and electronic) to help them with issues in children’ssafety, youth violence prevention, road safety, workplace safety, crime reduction, emergency preparedness, seniors’safety and fire safety; A place where our community partners can work together on safety initiatives; Computer work‐
stations available to the public for researching safety topics, and for teaching parents and youth about internet safety;
Skilled staff and volunteers to provide advice and assistance in organizing neighbourhood safety events; Workplacesafety training for business managers and employees; Exciting new opportunities to volunteer in safety programs; andLinks to hundreds of other community members and organizations working to make Brampton a safe place.
“Our Centre for Community Safety is much more than just a bigger, better building”, says Larry Zacher, Executive
Director of Brampton Safe City Association. “I also like to think of it as a fountain, a beehive and an epicentre. As afountain, it is an incredible source of knowledge about safety and violence prevention topics for people of all ages. We
have compiled a large library of printed and electronic materials and best practices in safety. These resources, alongwith a broad range of safety education workshops, are available to anyone seeking help.
“As a beehive, the centre is a busy place of activity where our community partners and volunteers work together toplan and implement safety projects. It is an unprecedented opportunity forcreating collaborative and innovative approaches to solving community safetyissues.”“As an epicentre, we are generating waves of enthusiasm for safety throughout
our community as we challenge citizens to get involved in neighbourhood‐based safety activities. Their motivation comes in part from the realization they
are part of a much‐bigger network of people working together and supported
by police, emergency services, government and private industry.”“Delegations from Australia and Uganda have already visited the centre, andwe were pleased to be able to share information and ideas with people fromthese far‐away lands”, concludes Zacher. Brampton is a city that cares aboutsafety. It was designated as a Canadian Safe Community by Safe Communities Canada in 2003, and as an International
Safe Community by the World Health Organization in 2007 in recognition of its many safety programs, as well as its
ability to work together as a community to address injury and crime concerns.
More information about Brampton’s safety programs and community partnerships, as well as links to Safe Communi‐ties Canada and the World Health Organization, can be found at www.bramptonsafecity.ca.
Reporter—Brigitte Sayers, Brampton Safe City

Community Safety Month 2009
The biggest event during Community Safety Month 2009 in Victoria was the Docklands Family Safety Day which at‐
tracted over 50,000 visitors. This year, safety professionals from throughout Victoria attended to showcase their services
and resources including Consumer Affairs Victoria, the Office of the Child Safety
Commissioner, The Royal Children’s Hospital Safety Centre, the Melbourne FireBrigade and Victoria Police. Community Safety Month is a call to action to work
together for a safer community.
For more information, visit www.communitysafetymonth.com.au or the Victorian
Safe Communities Network Inc. vscn.vscn@rch.org.au.

“Maintain the order of public traffic, do a civilized drive”
Youth Park Community and the traffic police group started activity about “maintain the order of public traffic, do acivilized drive” recently. We carried out the system about “a civilized driver”, awarded the gold medal; silver medal;
bronze medal to the drivers who had not the acts in violation of regulations in 3‐10 years, and gave the bonus from RMB
200 to RMB1000 for them. We mobilized the units? The residents in our community to participate this activity actively,
promoted the residents who had motor vehicles, bicycles to strengthen the awareness of road traffic safety, further
perfected the system of traffic safe intervention, and promoted the construction of safe community.
We will carry out the activity “the traffic police enter community”, they will intervene the traffic safety of the street,and ensure the free flow, reduce the injury.

Rapla county re-designated as Safe Community
In November the 12th Rapla county in Estonia was re‐certified. Rapla is the first safe community in Estonia and wascertified already in 2004. Now Rapla is still the only safe community in Estonia and a good forerunner for the othercounties in Estonia. Rapla County has done a long and systematic work together with the municipalities andstakeholders.
Rapla county is located in Northwest of Estonia, less than 60 km
south from the capital Tallinn. Rapla county has near 37000
inhabitants. In Rapla county are 10 municipalities.
The re‐designation took place during the second conference onaccident and injury prevention. The county council (i.e. its cross‐sectional team) also organized a competition among themunicipalities. Near all (9 from 10) municipalities participated.
These municipalities are Kehtna, Kaiu, Järvakandi, Juuru, Käru,Märjamaa, Raikküla, Vigala, Rapla (two representatives). The
winner of the competition was Rapla municipality.
The safe community program has been developed from a single
project since 1998 with an integrated approach since 2002. The Signing of the Safe Community agreement. Guldbrand
Skjönberg (certifying centre), Tavo Kikas (Head of Development
cross‐ sectional team has been the strength for thedevelopment of the program. The sustainability and durability and Planning Department, Acting City Governor) and Kalle
Tomet (Chairman, the Association of Local Authorities of Raplaof the program depends on enthusiastic community peopleCounty) .
and most of all on the head of the program Mrs Ülle Rüüson
Reporter: Guldbrand Skjönberg, Sweden
and the medical adviser Dr Aili Laasner.

Community Safety Month 2009
Working together for a safer community
International Safe Communities Day, 1 October 2009
Safe Communities Day was celebrated on 1 October 2009 as an international event to recognise the importance of pro‐moting safety and preventing injuries in local communities.
Safe Communities Day marked the commencement of the 13th Community Safety Month (CSM) in Australia during
October 2009. CSM is a time when local communities can showcase their work to develop and implement local solu‐tions for specific local community safety issues. It also provides an opportunity for coalitions at all levels to reflect on
their achievements and work on new approaches to achieving a safer, injury free future.
Community Safety Month is a community‐based program initiated by the Victorian Safe Communities Network andcoordinated by Victoria Police in partnership with the Network. The VSCN and the Safer Communities Unit of Victoria
Police coordinated the launch of Community Safety Month 2009 which was conducted by the Minister for Police andEmergency Services, the Hon Bob Cameron, together with the Child Safety Commissioner, Bernie Geary, the Chief Fire
Officer Tony Murphy, Bryce Moore of Delfin Lend Lease (major CSM sponsor), and VSCN Co‐Chairs, Nello Marino andChief Inspector Alan Kennedy. The Victorian launch was held at Federation Square, Melbourne, on Thursday, 1 October
2009.
Stakeholder organisations including the Royal Children’s Hospital Safety Centre, Office of the Child Safety Commis‐sioner, St John’s Ambulance, Playgroup Victoria, Consumer Affairs Victoria, KidSafe Victoria, and Neighbourhood
Watch showcased their events and resources, and CSM banners were presented to participating organisations. Partici‐pants were invited to meet the Minister and the Child Safety Commissioner at morning tea after the official launch.
The aim of the launch was: 1. To give Community Safety Month 2009 a high profile at Federation Square and promote
CSM events including Bushfire Action Week, the Weapons Amnesty and Community Safety Family Day at Docklands(Sunday 25 October); 2. To promote safe practices at home, work and play.; 3. To enhance confidence in public safety;
4. To facilitate partnerships between all levels of Government, community and the private sector and 5. To provide re‐sources and educational materials on safety initiatives to the community.
CSM contributes to each of the three primary safety promotion and injury prevention goals to: adopt risk management
behaviours; create safe environments and Implement a positive safety culture.
Reporter: Barbara Minuzzo, Australia.

Site visit to Hsinkang and Heiping in Taiwan
Site visit to finalize the applying process to become a member of the International Safe Community Network was made in twocommunities in Taiwan in November.
Hsingkang Community, Chia‐Yi County stated with the presentation about theircommunity and safety promotion activitis to a pair of certifiers, Prof. NamSoo Park
from Korea and Dr. Yoko Shiraishi from Japan and TIPSPA ( Taiwan Injury
Prevention and Safety Promotion). Then, the community took the certifiers to thecommunity to show programs of traffic safety, school safety, home safety and farmsafety. During the field visit the certifiers enjoyed the heart warming communication
with community people. Through one and half days, the community showed big
improvement with dynamic activities by volunteers since Prof. NamSoo Park visited
last year.
Following to the Hsingkang Community, Heping community, Taichung County had asite visit on Nov. 15 and 16. With warm welcome, the group of certifiers and TPSPA had
explanation about the community and safety promotion programs by the community
members. After the presentation, a group of certifiers visited to the community to see
activities of home safety, farm safety, and tourist safety and so on. Although it was very
unfortunate that they had hard time with the site visit evaluation in 2008 because of very
serious typhoon hit, during this site visit, they showed big improvement in one year.
After the process of site visit, those two communities were evaluated to fulfill the 6 criteriaof the International Safe Community.
Reporter: Yoko Shiraishi, JapanThe Summing-up Conference of "Safe Kids Walk This Way Month" in 2009, orKids Worldwide Road Traffic Theme Photography, Huamu Community
On the afternoon of Oct. 27, 2009, under the auspices of Shanghai Municipal Educational Committee, the general Brigadeof Shanghai Traffic Police and Safe Kids Worldwide (China), and co‐hosted by Huamu International Safe Community, ʺSafeKids Walk This Way, and We Can Do This‐‐‐‐ the Summing‐up Conference of Safe Kids Walk This Way Month in 2009, that isKids Worldwide Road Traffic Theme Photographyʺ was held in Huamu Community. Many important leaders attended theconference, such as Mr. Yang Yongming, director of Adolescent Protection Division of Shanghai Municipal EducationalCommittee, Mr. Wang Meigen, deputy chief of the general Brigade of Shanghai Traffic Police, Mr. Cui Minyan, ExecutivePrincipal of Safe Kids Worldwide (China), Mr. Wang Jianzhong from Work Safety Promotion and Surveillance Administrationof Pudong New Area, Mr. Wu Qiuping, vice‐commander of Traffic Police Brigade of Pudong New Area, and Mr. Liao Jiahui,managing director of Domestic Time‐definite Operation Department of Fedex Express in the region of China. Mr. Jiang
Weizhong, deputy director of Huamu Sub‐district, also attended the conference and delivered a speech. Over 100
representatives from Educational Bureau of various districts, detachments of Traffic Police, relevant educational departments,and different schools, took part of the conference, and more than 30 pupils and Fedex volunteers participated in it as well.
Ever since the establishment of Huamu International Safe Community, we have been aiming at ʺeverybody is endowed theright of safety and healthʺ which is advocated by WHO collaborating center on community safety promotion, and holding
activities zealously on the whole human beingsʹ injury prevention and control. Being a rather important part of aninternational safety community, safe kids project has been carried out properly and further promoted.
Up to now, Huamu Sub‐district has improved nearly 10 relevant road traffic problems, mainly in four aspects: (1) the flaws ofpavement and guardrails; (2) thoroughfare barriers; (3) unfriendly using road facilities; (4) the order outside the school gate in
the morning or afternoon. Contact Information: Ms. Chen Fang, Committee for Promotion of Huamu International Safe
Community. E-mail: huamushanghai@gmail.com.

National strategy for Injury Prevention
Recently Norway has launched its national strategy for accident prevention.

”Ulykker i Norge
Nasjonal strategi for forebygging av ulykker
som medfører personskade 2009–2014 ”

Forthcoming Safety and Injury Conferences2010 19th International Safe Communities Conference Sustainability of Safe Community Programs23‐ 26 March, 2010
Suwon, Korea
First Announcement www.2010safecom.com/pdf/1st_Announcement.pdf
http://www.2010safecom.org/web_mail/web_mail.html
www.2010safecom.org
Abstract deadline: 31 December 2009 . For information: jpcho@ajou.ac.kr
 The Second European Regional Safe Community Conference Incorporating the 7th Nordic Conference on SafeCommunities How to develop Safe Communities in Europe using the Nordic experiences, re‐establishing a European Network of SafeCommunities. 19‐20 May, 2010 Reykjavik, Iceland First Announcement (short version; long version) www.publichealth.is/SC‐
2010Iceland Contact: Rósa Thorsteinsdóttir E‐mail: rosa@publichealth.is Tel: +354 5800900 / +354 8400906 Fax: +354 5800901´
Public Health Institute of Iceland, Laugavegur 116, 105 Reykjavík, Iceland
Registration & call for abstracts are open now.
 2nd South Eastern Europe Safe Community Conference
15 ‐17 September, 2010. Sibenik, Croatia
Conference web page:
http://www.sigurnezajednice.hr/The_2nd_Southeastern_Europe_Safe_Communities_Conference_SibenikCroatia2010/Home.html Venue: Hotel Solaris http://www.solarishotelsresort.com/
Contact: Tanja Pekez Palisko
E‐mail: tashamed@gmail.com
 10th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion 21‐24 September, 2010 London, UK
The first formal announcement for Safety 2010 will be issued in January 2009
Call for abstracts: closing date will be Friday 15 January 2010, 17:00 hrs
http://www.safety2010.org.uk
Early bird rate before 30 April 2009 £450.00
Contact: Karen Hughes
Email: k.e.hughes@ljmu.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 151 231 8723
Centre for Public Health, Liverpool John Moores University, Kingsway House, 5th Floor, Hatton Garden, Liverpool L3 2AJ, UK .
Tel: +44 (0) 151 231 4510 | Fax: +44 (0) 151 231 4515

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, PhD. Editor (Email: koustuv.dalal@ki.se )