Teaming Up for Safety - Using Risk Assessment Tools

A new project from the Norwegian Safety Forum

Teaming Up for Safety - Using Risk Assessment Tools

Safe Communities Conference , Nov. 22-26, 2015, Nan, Thailand Eva Jakobson Vaagland, Norwegian Safety Forum

Norway

• Population 5 million people

• 19 regions, 428 communities

o 75% have less than 10.000 inhabitants

o 94 with have less than 2000

(Utsira – smallest with 211 inhabitants)

• 550.000 injuries registered every year

• 2.000 deaths by accidents

• 500 suicide

Norwegian Safety Forum 2015


Norwegian Safety Forum (NSF)

• A non profit membership based organization, established to promote safety and prevent injuries through advocacy work and joint action between public and private sector and NGOs.

• One of our missions is to coordinate and develop the Safe Community work in Norway and function as a SC Support Center on the International level.

• NSF is supported by the Norwegian Ministry of Health and the Norwegian Insurance Companies.


We have a lifespan perspective Everyone is entitled to a safe life – in all periods of life

In cooperation with our members and collaborating partners we identify age groups, situations and groups that need special attention


Five line of actions: • Child safety • Senior Safety • Prevention of drowning • Collect and use of injury data • Community Safety Promotion; Safe Communities

Many different professions take part in our network and in our activities


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Safe Community work in Norway

• 22 designated communities and 2 counties

• The national network meet 2 – 4 times a year • Regional networks are

established in 3 regions • We produce and promote

information, coordinate the work and develop new projects

• A national program based on Norwegian rules and regulations is developed, functioning parallel with the International SC-program


The Norwegian model • A general document that

presents the model and the method

• A letter of agreement as a start of the process when a community wants to join the program

• A safety check based on facts and self evaluations

• Report form including evaluation of programs, facts and figures

• A council of certifiers / tutors


“Safe Communities is a useful model to motivate inter action, cooperation and to put the municipality's various measures into an overall system. It's good for the politicians, good for the administration and good for the citizens."

Hans Hilding Hønsvall, varaordfører i Vestfold fylkeskommune, leader of the Safe Community work in Vestfold county


The Norwegian Public Health Act

includes measures relating to: • childhood environments • living conditions and housing, • education • employment and income • physical and social

environments • physical activity • nutrition • injuries and accidents • tobacco use • alcohol use and use of other

psychoactive substances


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Potential Years of Life Lost (PYLL) Cardiac / vascular, cancer and accidents as health problem in Norway

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Background

• Within public health work in Norway a lot of

interest is focused on lifestyle diseases, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases and the prevention of these. Much less interest is put into injury prevention and safety promotion.

• We need to increase awareness about the scope of injuries, causes of injuries and the potential for injury prevention and safety promotion.


Objectives

• The objective is saving lives and protecting people from injuries, by spreading information, and inviting groups and individuals to take part in risk assessment work.

• We want to put safety and injury prevention on the radar of organizations, NGOs, institutions, societies, teams, families, neighbors and individuals.

• By increasing knowledge and awareness we hope to change attitude and practice.

• The program can be used by our Safe Communities to invite new groups to take active part in the local safety program. But we`ll also invite other parts of the country.

• We hope that the project can be a way to promote interest in injury prevention and safety promotion on a community level.


Effective measures? What works? Amount of studies with significant positive effects in each intervention group.

Number of. studies in parentheses (total 249 studies)

1a Mass Media, brochures, film (17) 1b Consulting (10) 2a Training, Education (24) 2b Reward (8) 3a Laws, regulations (86) 3b Environment / product change (70) 4a “Orchestrated" measures (22) 4b Community-based activities (12)

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Methods

• By sharing facts, information and best practice -

easily accessible - we want to increase knowledge and give insight about injuries and safety promotion.

• We will supply tools, checklists and information on how to carry out safety checks in different places; in private homes, housing associations, outdoor areas used by children, vicinities around nurseries, schools, elderly centers etc.


Results and conclusions as of today

• The project is being developed this year and will be

tested by communities and organizations next year.

• The initial phase of developing web site, basic information etc has gained a lot of interest. It gives us a new platform to approach organizations we`d like to cooperate with. It`s an active and positive way to involve organizations and groups of citizens in local safety work.

• We hope this can be away to increase awareness and involve new groups and more communities in safe community work.



Burn injuries among children

A child exposed for hot water + 60° will experience 3rd degrees burns within 2–5 seconds.

If the water is + 55° it takes 30 seconds.

Reduce the temperature of the hot water!


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Reflective materials - the cheapest life insurance you can get


Slippery roads and icicles

• 3.000 – 4.000 people are treated for fractures after falling on ice in Oslo every year.

• Every year people are injured by icicles.


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Raise awareness on how we present Norway to tourists and what information we give

Visjonen av ein betre verden er ein betre verden - litt på veg

A vision of a better world is a better world - taking form

Åse-Marie Nesse


Thanks for your attention!

Eva J Vaagland, Norwegian Safety Forum,

[email protected], www.skafor.org

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