The Health Unit is an active partner in road safety, playing a lead role in impaired driving prevention, snowmobile safety and bicycle safety.
Young males are at the greatest risk.
The Health Unit recruits local hockey heroes to talk to children in Grade 6 about making positive lifestyle choices. The Thunder Bay Flyers visited over 600 students in 20 schools in 1997. In 1997, the Health Unit teamed up with community sponsors to bring Heroes to the north. 7,000 students in Grade 7 to OAC attended the high impact awareness program. Four car seat safety clinics were held in 1997.