Safe Community Lidköping
Name of the Community: Lidköping
Country: Sweden
Number of inhabitants: 37,000
Programme started year: 1983-1984
International Safe Communities Network Membership: Designation year: 1989, 2003
Info address on www for the Programme: www.Lidkoping.se/folkhalsa/folkhalsa.asp
The Market Place of Lidköping
The programme covers the following Safety promotion activities:
For the age group:
Children 0-14 years:
- Group meetings for parents to be;
- Group meetings for parents after birth ;
- Special groupmeetings for young mothers after birth
- Special groupmeetings for immigrant parents after birth
- Lending safety devices such as car safety cradles;
- Regularly informations about safety at the child health care
centres
- At the family centre, maternity care centre, child health
care centre, day care services and social services department
cooperate for an early discovery of children in the risk zone
- Bag with safety devices for demonstration to parents about
child safety;
- Video about choking and burn at the child health care centres
- Home safety checklists for the parents; different ages
- Recommendations to parents for 8 month children to buy medical
carbon, which they can give their children with poisoning after
consulting the hospital
- Discount on bicycle helmets for children; Information about
a safe bicycle
- Safety inspections at playgrounds, by technicians;
- Education about "Hitta vilse" (in translation "discover
lead astray" at the day care services)
- Public courses about child safety;
- Local newspaper articles about child safety;
- Traffic safety education in all schools for children 7-13
years old;
- Pupils safety representative in the schools;
- Information in schools (grade 6) at parents meetings, from
local policemen, school nursery, the project Compass, the association
Adults in town about alcohol, drugs and parental responsibility;
- Schoolyard inventory and preparation of the physical environment;
- Education and literature about work environment at school
- Parents patrolling the township every Friday night and some
Saturday nights;
- Alcohol free youth dance events
- Mapping sound levels in surroundings of young people
Youth 15-24 years:
- Voluntary education for young car drivers, age 18-24;
- Activating the youth in many different activities as well
as work, to keep them occupied;
- Drug and alcohol policy for the community;
- Meeting facilities for the young people in the community;
- Policies for the sports organisations;
- Local sports club educating children, parents and leaders
in ethics, moral, drugs and alcohol;
- Special bicycle helmet designed in a local sports club's
colours and logotype;
- A counselling centre for youth and their parents about alcohol
and drugs
Adults 25-64 years:
- Neighbourhood co-operation to prevent crime
- Measures mainly worked out by the employer, the Occupational
Health organisation and the Rehabilitation Unit at the Health
Centre;
Elderly 65+ years:
- Physical and social activities arranged by the elderly organisations;
- Education, safety inspection and helping aids supplied by
the Social Service Unit and the
Health Care centre; Working with the psychosocial health issue
- A check list for the elderly
- Using the hip protection safe hip
- Telephone service line
- Registration of accidents and injuries is established at
all nursing homes and in home care services
- Safety bags designed for the elderly
- Exhibitions of safety equipment at the primary care health
centre
- A brochure concerning Safety equipment for the elderly
At the following environments:
Home:
Yes, focus on children and elderly
Traffic:
- The visions zero;
On October 9th, 1997 the Road Traffic Safety Bill, founded
on "Vision Zero", was passed by a large majority
in the Swedish Parliament. This represents an entirely new
way of thinking with respect to road traffic Safety. The long-term
goal, for vision-zero, is that no one will be killed or seriously
injured within the Swedish road transport system. Lidköping
was elected to be a test community for vision-zero. The idea
was to test different measures in the spirit of vision-zero,
evaluate the measures and spread the knowledge and the experiences
to the rest of the country. The project lasted 1999-2001 and
is documented as a book, a video and a CD-ROM.
- Construct good footpaths and cycleways, crossings and narrowing
the street in order to reduce the speed especially close by
schools
- Preparation of the physical environment, like streets and
pavements, to prevent accidents;
- Free delivery of sand to house landlords to avoid fall accidents
in winter-time
- Local community groups participating in the traffic planning;
ex Traffic Safety Council, The council of disabled people
Occupational: No
Measures mainly worked out by the employer, the Occupational
Health organisation and the Rehabilitation Unit etc.
School:
- A drug user habit inquire was conducted January 2003.
- Registration of accidents and injuries at one school
- Information in schools (grade 6) at parents meetings, from
local policemen, school nursery, the project Compass, the
association Adults in town about alcohol, drugs and parental
responsibility
- "Smart drag"; pupil's co-operation against drugs
- "Compass" - Compass is the name of a three year
long project run by the local government in Lidköping,
Sweden. The main purposes of this project are to prevent drug
abuse, bullying and xenophobia within the comprehensive schools
of the municipality. The project is organised by the social
welfare authorities and there are three employees connected
to the assignment, which is to provide a programme for the
children, in which they practice social and emotional training.
A report on the project is in the making, by an independent
scientific team, to be presented in March 2004.
- Anti mobbing plans
- First aid cardio pulmonary resuscitation training at grades
1-9
- Friend-supporters - 2 pupils per class
- Trafic-safety education
- Safety routines and safety inspections have been implemented
in schools and kindergartens.
Sports:
- Programs and policies against drugs created by the sports
associations
- Education in first aid
- Education in swimming
- Rules about using safety belts during transports to activities
- Education in driving mini-busses
Leisure:
- Safety promotion in sport-areas and children´s playgrounds
Other:
- Co-operation with different personal and experts in planning
new housing projects and renovation of existing buildings
to get safety and work environment views from start
- "Ofelia" - a local accident and faults hotline
- a computer based registration system to avoid accidents
in outdoor areas in the community
- Participation from the police in ANT- campaigns
- The fire brigade is engaged in education pupil's grade 1,
2 and 5 in fire cautiousness; how to fire-extinction, get
out of the house etc. They are also educating employees of
the Elderly care division of the municipality how to inform
the elderly people they take care of.
- The fire brigade is also carrying out inspections in fire
prevention in schools, day care centres, elderly care centres,
assembly halls etc.
Violence prevention:
- Parents patrolling
- A drug prevention programme will be established in 2003.
- Alcohol free youth dance events
Suicide prevention: Yes
Programs aiming at "High risk-groups":
- Counselling service for crime victims
- Women´s emergency advice centre
- Focus on elderly and children safety
- An alcohol - and drug counselling unit exists in the community,
with child groups, relative groups and support groups for
the addicts
- A counselling centre for youth and their parents about alcohol
and drugs
Surveillance of injuries:
- Registration in the hospital, three local carecenters and
two dental carecenters
Numbers per year: 3891 (2002)
Population base: 37 000
Started year: Actual period started in 1998. Before that during
the period 1989-1993.
- Hospital discharge data
Publications:
Download the application report:
Lidköping,
Sweden- Reapplication to Become a Member of the Safe Community
Network
1. Svanström L, Ekman R, Schelp L, Lindström Å
(1995) The Lidköping accident
prevention programme - a community approach to preventing
childhood injuries in
Sweden. Injury Prevention 1:169-172.
2. Ekman R. Injuries in Skaraborg County, Sweden (1996) Surveillance,
analysis, and evaluation of community intervention at municipal
and county level. Thesis. Karolinska Institutet, Department
of Public Health Sciences, Division of Social Medicine, Sundbyberg,
Sweden
3. Svanström L, Ader M, Schelp L, Lindström Å.
Preventing femoral fractures among
elderly: The community safety approach. Safety Sciences (1996)
21; 239-246.
4. Ekman R, Schelp L, Welander G, Svanström L (1997)
Can a combination of local,
regional and national information substantially increase bicycle-helmet
wearing and
reduce injuries? Experiences from Sweden. Accident Analysis
and Prevention
29;3:321-328.
5. Ekman R, Welander G (1998) The results of 10 years´
experience with the Skaraborg
bicycle helmet program in Sweden. International Journal for
Consumer & Product
Safety 5;1:23-39.
6. Ekman R, Welander G, Svanström L, Schelp L, Santesson
P (2001) Bicycle-related injuries among the elderly. - A new
epidemic? Public Health 115:38-43.
7. Ekman R, Welander G, Svanström L, Schelp L. 2001.
Long-term effects of legislation
and local promotion of child-restraint use in motor vehicles
in Sweden. Accident
Analysis and Prevention 33;793-797.
8. Svanström L, Welander G, Ekman R, Schelp L (2001)
The Development of a Swedish
National Bicycle Safety Promotion Program - One Decade of
Experiences. Health
Promotion International, Vol. 17;161-169.
9. Textbook: Welander G, Svanström L, Ekman R. 2000.
Safety Promotion. An
Introduction. Karolinska Institutet, Dept. of Public Health
Sciences, Div. of Social
Medicine, Stockholm. Kristianstad Boktryckeri AB.
10. Welander G. (2001) Epidemiology and prevention of bicycle-related
injuries in Sweden. Thesis. Karolinska Institutet, Department
of Public Health Sciences, Division of Social Medicine, Stockholm,
Sweden
Produced information material, pamphlets:
- Checklists for Child safe, Elderly safe
- Hazard Line
- Documentation 10 years as a safe, secure community
- Lidköping - the safety work for the elderly and it´s
development possibilities
- Exhibition of safety equipment
- Brochure concerning safety equipment for the elderly
- Safety bags designed for the elderly
- Bag with safety devices for demonstration to parents about
child safety
- Documentation of "the vision zero-project"
- Report A safe and secure community, Twin community conference
in
Västra Götaland, 2002
Staff
Number: Apr 5
Professions: part-time
Permanent: Yes
Sten Tollmar, leader
Elisabeth Svensson, leader
Ann Carin Sjöström, chairman of the children´s
health group
Kerstin Sjöström, chairman of the elderly´s
health group
Anders Svensson, chairman of the youth´s health group
Dan-Eric Sjögren, chairman of the traffic safety group
Organisation:
Lidköping Municipality, Primary Health Care and Public
Health Unit of Skaraborg County Council.
Specific intersectional leadership group: No
General public health/health promotion group: Public health
council, 20 members of multi-sectoral agencies.
Elisabeth Svensson
Sten Tollmar
International commitments:
Study visits:
1990 Norway, Denmark, England, Australia and Estonia
1991 New Zeeland
1993 Australia
1994 Estonia
1995 Philippines
Participation in Safe Community conferences:
1991 Falköping, Sweden
1993 Glasgow, Scotland
1994 Harstad, Norway
1995 Forth Mc Murray, Canada
1998 Rotterdam, Netherlands
1999 Reykjavik, Iceland
2003 Helsingfors, Finland
Hosting Safe Community Conferences:
1999 "A safe, secure community", in connection with
the national conference this year.
Hosting "Travelling Seminars":
1989, 1991, 1994 and 2002
Further information contact:
Elisabeth Brandt, Public Health Planner
Municipal Office
Community of Lidköping
SE-531 88 Lidköping
Sweden
Phone +46510 770174
Fax: +46510 770188 +46510 771281
E-mail: elisabeth.brandt@lidkoping.se
Info address : www.lidkoping.se
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