Safe Community District 5 of the Tehran Municipality

The sadeghie Square of the district 5 of the Tehran Municipality

Country: Iran
Number of inhabitants: 685,335
Programme started year: 2008
International Safe Communities Network Membership: Designation year: 2010

Info address for the community: www.tehransafer5.com
Full Application report : www.phs.ki.se/csp/pdf/applicationreports/district5_en.pdf

For further information contact:

Dr. S.Touluoi, The Mayor of Dist.5
Head of Safe Community Committee
District 5

Address : No1.Vahidi st. Kashani blv.Saeghie sq.Tehran, Iran
Phone : +9821 440 71733,
Fax :+982171733

E-mail :info@tehransafer5.com

Nada Zeinal Zadeh, Sociologist
Safe Community Secretary and Coordinator
District 5, Tehran , IR Iran
Phone : +982144084768 Fax : +982144084768

Cell : +989122890881
E-mail : zeinalzadeh_n@yahoo.com
E-mail :info@tehransafer5.com

The program covers the following safety promotion activities:

For the age group

Children 0-14 years:

Fall, hit, and traffic events are prevalent in this age group. For the safety of this group it is important to focus on Parents, Schools staff and the child himself. So the following plans are of the priorities of this group:

•  Training the babysitters teachers of kindergartens and elementary schools to teach the children

•  Making students involved in the school police plans

•  The presence of the police, firefighters and the health-medical personnel for the implementation of the training programs

•  Holding the painting competitions among students about event prevention

•  Training practically the traffic rules to students and pre-elementary-school and kindergarten children

•  Making children familiar with the safe society through celebrations

•  Making children familiar with their rights through pamphlets, paintings, and painting classes

•  Making parents familiar with how to provide the children with the safe life by distributing the books of safe life for children in some regions and also training it to the teachers of the schools

•  More enforcement of using seat belt for car occupants and not to seat

•  children in front seats.

•  Encouraging and educating parents about the advantage of booster seat for children

•  School survey with the help of schools' staff

•  Ringing the safety bell at schools by the fire fighting department

•  More supervision for school buses by the traffic police

•  Educating parents about the potential dangers on road to school from homes.

•  Educating children about the use of bicycle helmet during cycling

•  Educating parents, family members and babysitters on how to make safe life for children

•  Determining the environment safety standards (place of living or education, park, playing houses and so on) for children

•  Good child rearing (parenting)

•  Attracting the participation of people for making safe the children living environment

Youth 15-24 years:
In this age group, most of the injuries result from the hit and traffic events, so some of the priorities of the group are:

•  Increasing the rule enforcement by the police to prevent the traffic events (particularly among motorcyclists )

•  Holding the training classes for this age group with the involvement of the social assistant of the municipality and the traffic transportation organization

•  The safety training during doing jobs (for men) and house holding affairs (for women)

•  Training the life skills specially anger control in order to prevent the aggression

•  Police enforcement on motorcyclist for crash helmet usage

•  Involvement of NGO s that works on drug abuse prevention and harm reduction to the program.

Adults 25-64 years:

In this age group, the traffic events for men and hit (being struck by a hard and powerful hit and burning) for women are prevalent, so the followings are important for this age group:

•  Implementation of the training plans of prevention the traffic events through holding the training classes, distributing the pamphlets, putting up the signs in pedestrians, and holding the safety exhibitions

•  Training safety for doing jobs (for men) and house-holding (for women)

•  Training putting out of the fire and treatment by the hot object particularly to housewives by the Fire service personnel

•  Preparation of preventive rules and regulations from the traffic events and precise implementation of these rules

Elderly 65+ years:

In this age group, the events such as fall (especially from the same-level heights) and the traffic events by the cars and motorcycles. Therefore, the followings are of the priorities of this age group:

•  Training families of the elderly about their safety issues

•  Improvement the safety level of the houses to prevent the events such as fall (through the preparation of the rules and the exact implementation of them by the organizations such as Municipality, Fire Service, and Engineering System)

•  Designing the pedestrians appropriate for the safety and welfare of the traffic of the elderly

•  Providing the suitable places and safe vehicles in recreation places for the elderly

•  The most activities focused on educating and health visit the elderly

At the following environments:

Educational Traffic Park paint competing about Safe Community

Home:

•  Determination of the safety level of the houses by means of the safety check-lists (that will be designed by the related organizations such as Municipality, Fire Service, and Engineering System) and the annual control of the safety conditions (which is being designed).

•  Training the families in order to inform them regarding the safety rights

•  Holding classes for parents to improve the safety level of the houses

•  Involvements (with participation of several organizations such as Municipality, City-Planning Organization, and Engineering System )including supervision on the building construction and refinement of the old houses

•  Preparation a special operational plan to resolve the problems of residential buildings and improve their safety level

•  Designing and construction of the safe toy houses, the responsible of which is the district municipality

Traffic:

•  Gathering, classifying and analyzing the data of traffic accidents, based on type of the injuries leading to death, or accidents leading to disability and damage accidents

•  Geometric and structural improvement of some accident prone locations

•  Installing traffic signs and installing flashing lights, lining kilometers of the streets

•  covering open urban channels in the district at Sadeghiyeh Sq. Around the Subway

•  installing speed barriers in accident prone locations and streets of the city

•  organizing tax-driving system

•  organizing Tehran 's West Passenger Terminal

•  supplying safety of the traffic streets leading to schools, through marking crosswalk and speed barriers and presence of police and police assistant in the time of the students crossing

•  training traffic rules to students in a practical manner (with priority to students with disabilities and elementary school students) in the district's traffic park

School:

•  Gathering data about point of view from students/parents about high risk points in schools

•  Empowerment of school principles for data gathering and use as implementation for evidence based interventions

•  Budget allocation to remove hot points upon evidences at each school independently.

•  Posing workshop for schools' staff to complete safety checklists to develop school injury surveillance.

•  Earthquakes maneuver on children in schools.

•  Forming educational meetings for managers and teachers in primary / secondary

•  and high schools.

•  Safety visit by taskforce group m embers from 3 schools as pilot

•  Preparing a safety checklist for schools by experts.

•  Identifying high risk (unsafe) points in schools. (By checklist)

•  Participating of students in the day of safe community- safe driving

•  Student visit from traffic park

Sport and Leisure time:

•  Determination of the hot spots by the use of an standard safety check list in Parks and sport grounds To repair or change the play ground tools

•  Special attention made on leisure time safety with emphasis on to prevent fall among children and elderly of both sexes specially in winter time

Occupational:

•  Program aiming safety among the workers who are working on building construction and people who are passing is developed.

•  Mandatory insurance coverage for the constructors

Violence prevention:

•  Life skill education, specially anger management for students,schoolstaff and women

•  Establish harm reduction program

•  Determination of hot point for criminal area

•  Determination of harm behavior

Violence against women

•  Support women who are victims of violence , and is distributed to the public on various occasions.

•  Preventive crisis talks are provided for men in the violence risk zone.

•  The community provides a women's shelter, which is run in the form of a community- supported association

•  prevention of children and women's violence with the help of” protect of violence's victims association” this association educate children and women about this issue.

•  Protection of women and children from “Afghan by “Hemi association”

Suicide prevention :

•  Establish workshop about depression with corporation of Tehran Psychiatry Institute

•  Increase Information of people specially women and youth group about probability sign of suicide

•  Developing a film called”girls”based on prevention against women and girls and suicide

Natural disaster:

•  Preparedness and responses to the earthquakes for school age children.

•  Preparedness and responses to the earthquakes for public.

•  First Aid Training for house wives.

•  Establishing a center to operate at the time of disaster. This center equipped with

commander shelter, medical care, emergency needs and etc.

Programs aiming at “High risk – groups ”:

The program is targeting traffic safety, school safety with special attention on youngsters and children. At home safety program the target groups are elderly and women. Preventive activity for those groups is on the social and health care sectors. Educational pamphlets about protecting children and elderly against physical, Injuries are distributed to the public mostly by the public health sectors and volunteers.

the children of one parent families, drug abusers and parents with psychological illnesses as particularly vulnerable. Providing special support for unemployed parents and immigrant parents not fluent in the language is stressed as an area of prioritization. The aim of injury prevention work in the case of children and adolescents is to reduce the number of injuries and accidents involving children and adolescents by 10-15% between 2008 and 2013.

Other programs:

•  Safety promotion in handicapped school ( sarikhani School )

•  Construction workers education

•  Promoting safety of motorcycle drivers

Surveillance of injuries :

•  Registration in health centers, EMS center, Police stations, fire fighting and rescue centers. (Number per year:12)

•  At local hospital there is a continuous all injury recording based on ICD10 system developed by the injury prevention department at the ministry of health on 2005. All injuries treated in outpatient and in-patient are recorded.

•  Home based surveillance started on 2008 .

Number per year: every two years

Population base is 685,000

Some result from Household survey 2010:

Number of injuries: 5273 per 100,000 population

Injuries related to roads and streets: 11%

Home related injuries: 65%

Injuries related to leisure time: 8.8%

Working place related injuries: 5.8%

School related injuries: 0.4%

•  Field surveillance to determine the hot points by experts all over the district

Staff

Number: 6 persons
Professions: part time and full time

Organization:
Tehran Municipality Headed by: Dr. MB Ghalibaf, the mayor of Tehran .

Tehran Safe Community council for policy and planning Headed by: Dr. H.Moazzen, the special representative from the mayor of Tehran and the head.

Safe Community Committee at the District 5:

Head: Dr. S. Touluoie, the Mayor;
Secretary : N. Zeinalzadeh;
Advisor: Dr. M.Naseerbakht , MD, MPH, Community Medicine Specialist

Members:
Representatives from: Health sector, Police department, education department, EMS and other rescue services, Fire fighting Department, Red Crescent society, experts and active NGOs.

International commitments:
Study visits : 1 time . By Bo Henricson, and Dr Reza Mohammadi.

Participation in Safe Community conferences:
-Hosting National Safe Community Conferences, Tehran 2009.

-Hosting travelling seminar: Establishment of safe driving, safe community conference in district 5(2010)

Other:

•  Regional workshop for Safe Community guidelines in district 5 (2010)

•  Participation in last Wednesday of the year (2010)

•  Establishment of Safe School-Safe Community in district 10 (2010)

Publications:

7 guide books for the safe community has been Signed and the authors for each book has been assigned. These books are published .Bilingually for the use of other districts in Tehran by the end of the 2009. They are as follows:

•  Guide line to approach the Safe Community philosophy. (translation)

•  Guide line to safe community communication. (translation)

•  Guide line for developing an action planning. (translation)

•  Guide line for data gathering and establishing a surveillance system. (translation)

•  Guide line for reporting and corresponding to the international agencies leading the safe Community movement. (translation)

•  Guide line for safe community and empowerment. (translation)

•  Guide line for safe community child injury revision. (translation)

•  Safety and violence