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Name of the Community: Alvdal Municipality
Country: Norway
Number of inhabitants: 2415
Program started year: 1996
"WHO- designation" year: intention 2001 (not yet)
Info address on www for the Programme: trygglok@online.no
The program covers the following safety promotion activities:
Children 0 – 14 years:
In Alvdal, the midwife, the children’s and the school-nurse are in the field of
advising the parents, the children and the teachers in injury-preventing beaviour. In both
the kindergartens and the schools there are introduced a program of "Children in
activities", aiding the children in how to act in and cooperate with the nature
– forest, riverside, hills – including sefety procedures when using open fire.
Different kinds of primitive shelters "gapahuk" and "lavvo" have
been put up at convenient places, at least 10 – 15 minutes in walking distance from
the kindergarten/school.
Safe school- road: because of the rather heavy traffic through the municipality –
main roads crossing through – there have been built separate foot-paths and fences,
separating pedestrans and cyclists from other traffic. Great effort is given to teach the
children how to behave in traffic, and in showing the convenience of using helmets on
bicycle-riding.
Youth 15 – 24 years:
The school-nurse and the police are eager, giving aids about the risks of smoking,
drinking and drug consuming. There is also a rather strong effort towards the topics of
mobbing and other wellbeing problems.
The link between health – environment – safety is a sentral question in the
work of the health- station as well as in all situations where environmental improvements
are issued.
Traffic questions are rather heavily focused, together with first aid training through
programs run by several voluntary organizations in the local area.
Adults 25-64 years:
As traffic makes so many dangerous situations, and even causes a mass of injuries
– even death, this is among the main topics, together with working area and
environmental injury preventing education.
Support groups are established for people in personal crisis, e. g. relatives to
traffic accidents. The cimney-sweeper is a very useful person in the work for damage and
injury prevention program in the homes, e. g. danger of open fire, poisoning, hot water
temperature, fall injuries etc. etc.
Elderly 65+ years:
For elderly people the sand sprinkling projekt is very interesting, with a very long
winter (snow on the road up to six months a year) the kick-sledge is very useful facility,
giving people support against falling, besides it is useful carrying things on. When we
sprinkle sand on the ice to avoid slippery situations we must take cautions that the
kick-sledge needs the ice, therefore we just sprinkle half the foot path.
Home-based care for elderly people includes injury preventing efforts through a
registration program, where the risk situation/tool/circumstance is identified, within ten
areas of risks, efforts are suggested, and, if possible, improvements are made, eventually
by the "municipality househelp". In this work the municipality homehelp and
eventually the home nurse, are very important partisipants.
At the following environments:
Home:
See the cimney-sweeper and the home-based care program above. The children’s
nurse also give aid at the visits in homes after birth. League of voluntary women have
been working to get registered all weapons in the municipality.
Traffic and school:
See the program of the school-nurse, children in activity and safe school-road above.
The safe-guard has been built up to handle extreme situations, even extra low temperatures
at traffic accidents. Traffic injury registration helps identifying dangerous points of
the road.
  
Occupational:
The registration of work related accidents is made by the local surgery station that makes
a detailed list of injuries. This makes the background for preventional effort and the
total enterprise is a cooperation between local doctor/nurse, several organisations and
the industri work places.
Sports and leisure:
Different ways of focusing on the risks of ignorance towards alcohol/drugs, how to
behave in the nature and the importance of learning how to master climate and nature.
Surveillance of injuries: Alvdal Surgery Centre
Numbers per year: 225
Population base: 2415
Started year: 1996
Produced information material, pamphlets: Yes
Staff:
Professions: Part time
Permanent: Yes
Organization: Under Alvdal Eductational Health Committee
Specific intersectoral leadership group: Yes
General public health/health promotion group: Yes
International commitments:
Study visits: Several, between others – Harstad.
Participation in Safe Community conferences: Reykjavik, Harstad, Fredrikstad, Hamar.
Hosting Safe Community Conferences: Participating in network conference at Røros 2001
not yet.
Other: The project manager has been visiting several conferences and municipality
meetings, giving away experience.
For further information contact:
Elisabeth Hafsten
elisabeth.hafsten@alvdal.kommune.no
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Download the application report:
 Alvdal, Norway- Application to Become a Member of the Safe
Community Network
Updated by  Moa
Sundström, 2002-10-29 14:38.
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