How to become a member of the
International Safe Community Network

A “Safe Community” can be a: Municipality; a County; a City or a District of a City working with safety promotion, Injury-, Violence- and Suicide- prevention and prevention of the consequences (human injuries) related to Natural Disaster, covering all age groups, gender and areas and is a part of an international network of accredited programmes.

Those "Communities” who want to apply appointment, as an "International Safe Community" including “designation” should follow the following procedure:

1. New Guidelines (20120124)
How to write an application to become a member of the “International Safe Community Network“ (pdf)

Including Form A for Application
Including Form B for web text
Including Ethical rules

From January 2012 use this form, after 1 March 2012 they are compulsory.
All applying (and re-applying) communities must follow these guidelines and fill in these forms.
Please observe there is a new indicator for Safe Communities and that the old extensive application report is replaced by forms A-B!

3) Safe Community flags can be ordered by the Certifying Centre who is evaluating your program.

Big Safe Community flag: size 240 x 150 cm: Price by: the Certifying Centre in your region
Table flag (for a 50 cm pole) 24 x 15 cm: Price by: the Certifying Centre in your region

5) An Agreement is signed between the Community, the Certifying Centre and the Karolinska Institutet, WHO Collaborating Centre on Community Safety Promotion.
Send the names, including titles for signing (Name of Mayor and Representative from Health Sector). Agreement template 2011.

6) The designation as a Safe Community
Time table for the Event: (suggestion)

7) The Safe Community logo will be sent as a jpg file and can be used after the designation.

The application report and file for web page shall be sent to: Certifying Centre

Redesignation after 5 years!

Follow up of the Safe Communities activities

The WHO Collaborating Centre on Community Safety Promotion at the Karolinska Institutet has decided to perform the follow up of the Safe Communities activities after 5 years, instead of after 10 years. (November 2005)

Re-designation after 5 years- important changes! (February 2011)

The WHO Collaborating Centre on Community Safety Promotion at the Karolinska Institutet decided already November 2005 that the redesignation time is 5 years. Two mechanisms for the follow up were suggested; annual reports during a five year time or a complete new application.

Our experience during this period is that the annual reports are lacking structure which could be related to the nowadays detailed checklists developed by most of the Certifying Centres. Also the paper work has a larger administrative cost than the value of that process.  We have therefore decided to abandon the annual reports as the only mechanism for redesignation and from March 1st we are asking for full re-applications of the same standard as an ordinary first application. If some Certifying Centre wants to ALSO keep the annual reports they are free to do so.

What will happen after five years?
If we haven´t been reached by a letter of intent from the Mayor of the Community within five years- the community -as is the procedure now- will be completely removed from the numbered list of designated Safe Communities. When we are reached by the letter of intent the regular process of re-designation starts.