The program covers the following safety promotion activities:

For all age groups

the working methods are to try to involve as many people as possible in the prevention work by

• Finding engaged persons in different organizations, such as community, medical care, local organization etc
• Supporting those persons with knowledge in injury prevention
• Involving the prevention methods in the ordinary work at all levels to obtain a long lasting result
• Creating different work- committees that carry out the concrete work through mainly information, education, change of unsuitable environmental surroundings

At the following environments:

Home: Yes
Traffic: Yes
Occupational: No, not mainly, But we register the injuries and send the result to the organization working with occupational safety.
School: Yes
Sports: Yes
Leisure: Yes

"Accidents" (non-intentional injuries) in the following injury areas:

Violence prevention (intentional injuries):

Yes

Suicide prevention (self-inflected injuries):

No

Programs aiming at "High risk-groups":

Yes

Surveillance of injuries:

Where? In the hospital and the five local health care centers
Numbers per year: Numbers 1995 were 3577 registered accidents
Population base: 55 000
Started year: The registrations are done every fifth year. The first registration started 1990.

Publications: (Scientific)

Produced information material, pamphlets: Child safe, Elderly safe, Traffic safe, Youth safe (video), Hazard hotline.

International commitments:

Study visits:

Niva, Safe Research 1996

Participation in Safe Community conferences:

Corkerhill, Harstad, Fort McMurray, Noarlunga, La Trobe, Parkes

Hosting "Travelling Seminars":

The 6th Travelling Seminar 1995

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Safe Promotion Dalarna 1996

Staff:

Suzanne Westberg (Health planner)
Britt- Marie Sandberg (Registrator)
Professions: Part - time
Permanent: Yes
Organization:. The local Environmental Health Protection Department is responsible for the program

Specific intersectoral leadership group:

An executive group (Municipal commissioner, Chiefs of the Social Services, the Leisure and Recreation, the School, the Environmental Health Protection Department in the Municipality of Falun and the chairman, the Director and the Health planner from the Falun Health and Medical Care District) is leading the work

General public health/health promotion group:

Five committees are meeting regularly to decide on and they are in charge of planning and executing the actual field work

The five committees are responsible for the fields:

Home accident involving children and youths, Home accident involving elderly, Traffic accident, Accident at school, Accident in sports.

For further information contact:

Margareta Bogert
Miljö- och hälsoskydd
Falu kommun, SE-791 83 Falun
Sweden
Phone: +46 23 83 641
Fax: + 46 23 83934
margareta.bogert@adm.falun.se