Affiliate Safe Community Support Centre
Norwegian Safety Forum/Skadeforebyggende forum
Country: Norway
Number of inhabitants: 4,800,000
Programme started year: 1992 / 1994 (first destignated city Harstad in 1994 but the work started before that)
Affiliate Safe Community Support Centre: Designation year: 2010
Info address: www.skafor.org Full application report:
For further information contact:
Eva Jakobson Vaagland
Norwegian Safety Forum / Skadeforebyggende forum
NO 0202 OSLO
NORWAY
Phone: + 47 23 28 42 00
Fax: + 47 23 28 42 11
E-mail: post@skafor.org
Website: www.skafor.org
1) The provision of Centre programs and services utilize multidisciplinary and crosssectoral approaches.
The Norwegian Safety forum was established, as a membership organization, in 1985, to provide information on safety and enhance co-operation between public bodies, non-governmental organisations and trade and industry, in order to promote safety efforts in Norway . The cross sectoral approach has been a base for the activities from the very beginning.
2) The Centre provides a framework for promoting collective action which includes involvement with community networks.
The organization has members from many different types of organizations / institutions and sectors of activities within the injury prevention and safety promotion work in Norway. Many of our membership organizations and our collaborating contacts have their own local network that will function as a support to our initiatives. We have been able to develop a unique banc of knowledge, experience and competence that we can use to promote collective actions.
3) The Centre provides consultative support to communities in the establishment of Safe Community initiatives.
In Norway injury prevention and safety promotion is part of the national health program. The Norwegian Safety forum has worked closely with the national health institutions and the Ministry of Health for more than 20 years. The organization has been appointed by the national health authorities to coordinate the Safe Communitiy-work in Norway . This means, among other activities, that we lead the National Council for Approved Safe Communities, we promote the Safe Community work and we provide consultative support to communities interested in Safe Community activities.
4) The Centre facilitates and supports community-based strategic planning processes.
As the official coordinator of Safe Community work in Norway we facilitate 3 – 4 annual meetings for the Safe Community network. These meetings are open for approved Safe Communities, but we also endorse communities interested in learning more about the Safe Community-work, and communities that are actively promoting safety in different ways.
5) The Centre demonstrates leadership and stewardship in addressing priority injury issues, high risk, and vulnerable groups.
Based on research, statistics, reports from insurance companies and official records The Norwegian Safety Forum forms policies and decides which issues and sectors that should be given priority. Lately fall injuries and fire accidents among elderly have been given priority.
6) The Centre provides expert services and knowledge in the area of injury data and injury surveillance issues.
Norwegian Safety Forum is considered to be a leading centre for knowledge in the area of injury data and surveillance issues. The former leader of NSF, doctor Johan Lund is a renowned expert in the field on injury data and surveillance. He is a consultant for the NSF and responsible for the injury database that will be presented as part of our web site.
7) The Centre demonstrates a long term commitment to supporting Safe Communities and the Safe Community Network within their organizations strategic plan.
Norwegian Safety Forum has been coordinating the Safe Communitiy-network in Norway for more than 10 years and has been working closely with the local communities long before that. Two international Safe Communities Conferences have been held Norway, in Harstad and in Bergen.
In the strategic plan for 2009 – 2012 promoting the Safe Community work is one of five explicit goals for the organisation`s work.
8) The Centre supports those responsible at the community level to utilize appropriate indicators to evaluate community processes, effects of change and injury rates.
Through work done by officers serving the Norwegian Safety Forum standards for evaluation and research has been developed through the years. Norwegian Safety Forum is regarded as a national centre of knowledge on the use of local facts and statistics as means to reduce injury rates.
9) The Centre disseminates their experiences both at national and international levels.
International Support: Throughout the years research has been done and published in international journals both by Dr Johan Lund and other researchers connected to the Forum but also by local Safe Community managers like professor Børge Ytterstad in Harstad safe Community.
National Support: It is an important part of our activities to spread knowledge and information to members and collaborating organizations on safety promotion in general and the Safe Community model. Best-practice-presentations is a natural part of our conferences and seminars. Reports and results are made publicly known.
10) The Centre reports on their Safe Community activities and research efforts.
The Norwegian Safety Council submits an annual report on activities and research efforts. The Forum also submits a special report on the Safe Community work including reports from designated Norwegian members of the network. Our work and economy is revised by an authorised auditor, as required by Norwegian law when you receive national grants.
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