Safe Community Arsanjan

Arsanjan, Anaar square

Name of the Community: Arsanjan
Country: Iran
Number of inhabitants: 38,395
Programme started year: 2000
International Safe Communities Network Membership: Designation year: 2008
Info address on www for the Programme: http://scarsanjan.sums.ac.ir
Full application available: www.

For further information contact:
Dr. Eskandari
Health Center
Arsanjan –Health Care Center
IR-0098 Arsenjan, Iran
Phone: +98-0729-7622346
Fax: +98-0729-7622534
E-mail: arsenjan@sums.ac.ir
Info address on:www.sums.ac.ir/shabakeh/arsenjan

The programme covers the following safety promotion activities:
For the age group

Children 0-14 years:

Children carnival with safety slogan

• Includes safety principles in nursing of kids under 6 and relevant training of 100 percent of mothers.
• Showing instructional films and theatres to children of preschool and above.
• nrolling students in practical programs like school police and police assistants.
• Using play toys and entertainment instruments such as puzzles, story books, hand crafts, painting and other devices.
• Presence of police in schools and providing instructional programs.
• Scheduling programs for the scientific education of children and teenagers like traffic park program.

Youth 15-24 years:

• Performing curriculums for this group to improve the religious culture and ethical principles and teaching them life skills and problem solving initiatives.
• Instructing school teachers regarding the above issues to provide them with instructions about correct contacts against violence and suicide and possible prospects in these agendas (since violence and suicide has the second largest prevalence in this group).
• Improving accessibility to councilors by installing consultation centers in high schools and universities.
• Enforcing people to use laws in vehicles in this group by means of police forces.
• Attracting public support to this group by enrolling in NGO.
• Applying special attention to this group in motorcyclists' interferences projects due to prevalence of usage of motorcycles in this group.

Age group 25 to 64:
Due to the fact that people between 25 to 64 are the most active and efficient group of the society, a curriculum aimed at safety improvement of cultural safety and advising them of their occupational duties to protect their lives and those involved in their related activities.

• Educating necessity programs and instructional titles to each group is identified and by enrolling respective specialists, educating and instructing these people will be performed.
• In these instructions, all occupations and all age and sex groups are covered.
• However since traffic incidents have the highest percentage of the accidents in this group, related instructions are provided to all these groups by means of pamphlets, movies, billboards and instructional hints in official letter heads and in water and electricity and other invoices by performing necessary arrangements with principals of related organizations.
• The presence of police and supervision of instructions regarding traffic issues are also performed in different occupational localities.
  

Age group 65 +:

• Includes safety principles in safety principles of elderly in health centers.
• Advising families of the elderly regarding their specific issues.
• Improving safety status of houses to reduce accident rate by means of social assistants and advising families with adequate instructions.
• Performing cultural and recreational programs and promoting safety principles to the elderly in their context in conjunction with the elderly center (NGO) which has been formed by the elderly group of the city.

At the following environments:

Home:

Using Instructional Books for Children in Kindergartens

• Compilation of house safety checklist and annual inspection from every village house by social workers and every city house by clinical assistants.
• Providing face to face instructions in time of visiting of the houses to resolve deficiencies and over visiting after 6 months in case of problem existence.
• Analysis of checklists on each village basis and providing necessary interferences employing the assistance of each village’s council and other local principals.
• Increasing the magnitude of supervisions on constructional activities by safe community committee and providing instructional programs for the people in those activities.
• Diagnosis of superannuated and unsafe houses and encouraging people to take corrective principles and rebuilding damaged parts and giving loans for housing and constructions.
• Performing the following activities the safety condition of houses increased from 64.5 percent in the inception of the program to 87.

Traffic Roads:

Immunization of the city, adjusting the streets and installing traffic signs

• Diagnosis of accident prone zones and locations in need of asphalt, sideway constructions, infrastructure construction, safety signs, lining, construction or widening of bridges and other.
• Determination of construction priorities based on the traffic volume and accident prone characteristics on the location by safe community committee and supervision of progress of the project by the chairman of the committee.
• Provision of construction interventions based on the aforementioned factors including asphalt coating, sideway construction, installing safety signs, pit filling of accident prone locations and so on.

Occupational:

• Evaluation of safety principles of non-domestic places regarding personal safety instruments of workers, fire extinguishing capsules and first aid kits.
• Performing instructional terms for employers and workers.
• Revision of all work places (issuance of written warning to employers in case of non conformance to aforementioned indicator by the professional health units).
• Due to the absence of occupation inspector in the city the specialized safety inspection is not feasible, instructional movies related to safety principles in each profession all workers must be taught by this method and evaluation must take place before and after by means of checklists.
• Following the above safety principles, conditions of occupational localities increased from 5 percent to 41.6.
  

Schools:

• Formation of school’s safety inspection checklist and inspecting all schools by health center.
• Analysis of checklists by health center and Ministry of Education interferences in conjunctions and other related units to improve the safety of schools.
• Re inspection of schools after interventions.
  * equipping schools with fire extinguishing capsules and first aid boxes and providing related instructional methods of their usage and establishing instructional workshops for the school’s principles regarding safety principals in schools and the methods of improvement in safety. Performing the aforementioned actions the safety of schools increased from 56 percent in the inception of the program to 72 percent.
  
  

Sport Clubs:

• Choosing some locations as sport grounds in village and provision of relative safety for those locations including: infrastructure constructions and removal of pitfalls and barriers by safety community committee and sports organization and selecting capable people from those villages to provide safe sports principals.
• Safety inspection of sports resources throughout the city to maintain safety principals and, upon occurrence, the resolution of deficiencies (considering the fact that most of the sport facilities in the city are newly built, they possess reasonable degree of safety).
• Investigation on all athletes and those injured during sports activities and issuance of health cards upon the doctor’s approval to carry on their sports activities.
• Employment of swimming life guards to provide training and protect the life of swimmers in the lake adjacent to the city.
  

Leisure:

• Installing fire places and free phones in Bonaab jungle region.
• Providing good light conditions and pavement mosaics for pathways of all of the parks.
• Repairing and adjusting the electricity ramifications periodically in all parks.
• Constructing children’s park due to all safety and other standards in the city entrance (under construction).
  

Violence Prevention:

• Diagnosis of social, age and gender groups who commit violence more than the others based on the victim’s statistics (majority of this group comprised of 15 to 24 years youth).
• Holding annual workshops for school teachers regarding the prevention methods of violence in children and adolescent.
• Formation of consulting centers in high schools and universities to diagnose and assist the violence perpetrator prospects.
• Holding of speech and discussion sessions by religious scholars in schools and universities to develop religious and ethical cultures in this age group.
• More active and potent presence of security and police forces throughout the city to counteract and resolve the probable incidents of violence.
  

Suicide Prevention:

• Analysis of suicide statistics and diagnosis of endangered groups.
• Provide higher access to consultation centers by formation of a consultation section in universities and employment of consultation specialists in high schools.
• Employment of groups of people titled school assistants and social assistants to diagnose endangered persons and to provide them with guidance and forwarding them to consultation centers.
• Limiting access to suicide tools by providing education for the families during safety inspection of the houses and provide special training for families in danger and supervision on poisons and drugs selling.
• Expanding recreational and entertaining programs and art classes to fill the leisure time of the youth.
  
  Programs aiming at “High risk – groups”:
  Intervention plans for reducing accidents in motorbike rider.
  Intervention plans for reducing burning in homes especially in children and matrons.
  
  Other Activities:
  1-Constitution of safety (NGO) Arsanjan county which is the first institute aiming at prevention of accidents, influential citizens of the city and famous members are establishers of this institute and enrolling of different groups of the society especially youngsters and providing them with relevant instructions are among their duties. Objectives of this NGO include attraction of public support, improving safety cultures, and increasing the knowledge of various groups by providing instructional programs
  2-installing a unit to prevention of unpredicted disasters injuries
  
  
  Earthquake maneuver of students

Surveillance of injuries: In hospital, health & medical center.
Number per year: 12 times
Population base: 38,395
Started year: 2000

Produced information material, pamphlets:
• Pamphlets :
Driving safety issues; Safety tools in driving; Safe driving; Principles of safe driving; Prevention of burning incidents in children; Safe exercises for elderly; Measure of falling prevention in elderly; Poisonous and noxious drugs; Suffocation prevention from CO and CO2 resulting from organics materials burn; House safety measures; School safety measures; Vehicle safety measures; Workplace safety measures; Job hazards;

• Booklets:
300 notes while driving; Safety principles of foodstuff ; 100 hints about safety of schools; Prevention of safety incidents in children; Electricity and safety: Gas and safety;

Staff:


Number: 20 persons
Number of staff: 2 full-time, 18 part-time
Professions: Health care professional, social worker, political workers, NGO
Temporary: 9 persons
Permanent: 11 persons
Organization: the bellow mentioned groups.
Specific intersect oral leadership group:
Governor, health center president, mayor, head of traffic department, head of transportation organization, headmaster of city council, minister of education department, public prosecutor, president of electricity department and respectives of NGO
Health promotion group: the above groups and Principals of the water supply and sanitation, gas, public health care, ministry of culture and Islamic guidance, Red Crescent, Sport ,Medias, Communications ,Work and Affair and Agricultural Jehad offices

International commitments:
Study visits: Visiting the safety community project of Kashmar and Bardeskan
Being visited by: accomplished visits of safety community project of Arsanjan; Professor Swan storm's visit of Arsanjan in (2002); Dr. Ekman's visit of the county in (2004)
Visits of ministry 3 times from (2002) to (2006); Isiting the councils of the province (2007);
Visiting of all governors of the province in (2007); Provincial visits of the project;
Participation in Safe Community conferences: Taking part in civic workshops to prevent accidents in the year 2004, Kashan; Taking part in the international conference of safe community , Tehran 2007;
Taking part in Iran-Sweden joint workshops under the title of "Accident Prevention and Safety Increase" in Tehran (2004); Taking part in the international congress of increasing road safety (Geneva 2007)

ARSANJAN CEREMONY 6 MAY 2008