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Booster Seat
Law Change
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Police Effort
and Alcohol
Resource
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Safety Rock and Driveway Runover
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Safekids Awards
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2012 Safety Conference
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Neighbour-hood Support Rural Watch
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Safe Rotorua! V O L U M E 8 , I S S U E 4 1
Ann Weaver ,Director for Safekids New Zealand says the announce-ment raising the mandatory age for child restraints will protect the most vulnerable members of our community. She says the regulation change is an important step in keeping kids safe on our roads, but is only one step. Up to 16 children a year are killed and five a week are hospitalised as a result of injuries they receive as passengers in motor vehicles. Under current New Zealand law, children up to the age of five must be placed in a children restraint such as a booster seat. The new law will require children up to the age of seven to be placed in a restraint, while those aged between seven and eight have to use one if it is available. For more information http://www.safekids.org.nz/
• Keep using boosters even after their 7th birthday. Remember it’s easier to keep kids in boosters longer than trying to convince a child to start using one again. • Be a role model. Praise them for being buckled in their booster, just as you are buckled in your seatbelt. Praise them again for role model-ling good safety behaviour to younger siblings. • Boosters are COOL and NOT baby seats. Race car drivers use seats that are very similar to boosters, with similar safety benefits. Ex-plain how boosters work and how they keep kids safe. • Make it fun. Jazz it up and turn it into a pirate ship, a rocket or a fairy chariot! • Remember 148cm. The simplest way to tell if a child needs to stay in a booster seat is if they’re under 148cm tall.
For more information, contact Anthony Rola at [email protected]. or visit www.safekids.org.nz or call 09 631 0717.
Hurray for booster seats!!
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♦ TIPS TO KEEP KIDS IN BOOSTER SEATS
Public says “Great job!”
The latest public satisfaction survey scores Police 82 out of 100 - a rating which would be the envy of overseas police agencies. The annual satisfaction survey asks people who have had recent contact with Police about their experience with others called at random to gauge perceptions of safety and views on Police. The survey found 82 percent were satisfied or very satisfied with the service received. Overall trust and confidence in Police remains high at 77 percent. The survey found important drivers of satisfaction are “In the end I got what I needed,” and “Staff made me feel like my situation mattered.”
Deputy Commissioner Viv Rickard says staff should be proud of the results, which reflect the hard work and commitment of police around the country to provide the best possible service to their communities.
Alcohol & your kids
HPA provides parents with helpful tips and advice for HPA provides parents with helpful tips and advice for HPA provides parents with helpful tips and advice for HPA provides parents with helpful tips and advice for guiding young people and their drinking. Topics covered guiding young people and their drinking. Topics covered guiding young people and their drinking. Topics covered guiding young people and their drinking. Topics covered include delaying drinking, being a role model, building include delaying drinking, being a role model, building include delaying drinking, being a role model, building include delaying drinking, being a role model, building and maintaining a good relationship and what to do and maintaining a good relationship and what to do and maintaining a good relationship and what to do and maintaining a good relationship and what to do when things go wrong. A DVD resource is also included when things go wrong. A DVD resource is also included when things go wrong. A DVD resource is also included when things go wrong. A DVD resource is also included with the booklet. Available from with the booklet. Available from with the booklet. Available from with the booklet. Available from alac.org.nzalac.org.nzalac.org.nzalac.org.nz
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Driveway Run Over, Home Safety report now available.Driveway Run Over, Home Safety report now available.Driveway Run Over, Home Safety report now available.Driveway Run Over, Home Safety report now available.
The evaluation report for the 2011/ 2012 Safekids Campaign (Driveway Run
over and Home Safety) is now available. Thank you to all the practitioners,
parents and members of the public who provided feedback to the
evaluation process. To download this report visit:www.safekids.org.nz.
Look out for Safety Rocks at Rotorua homes
Thousands of paving stones along with painting supplies have been
delivered to childcare centres around Rotorua this spring, all part of an
innovative education campaign that aims to promote important messages
to help keep young children from being run over in their home
driveways. Launched early this year, Treasure Rotorua/ Safekids
Rotorua coalition’s ‘Safety Rocks’ encourages families to identify a safe,
supervised location where children stand and wait (their waving spot)
while vehicles in the driveway are being moved. “It’s important that
drivers can see the children on their Safety Rocks so they’re absolutely
certain that the children are not in the path of the vehicle,” said
Safety Rocks project team leader Julie Millar. For more information
about the ‘Safety Rock’ campaign, email [email protected]
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Well Done Safekids NZ !!
Powerful fun approaches to safety-
Against international competition, Safekids NZ won many of the media
awards for the range of the resources they research and prepare for use by
many safe community groups, and other organisations in NZ. Safekids New
Zealand is the injury prevention service of Starship Children’s Health and a
member of SAFE KIDS Worldwide. Their mission is to reduce the incidence and severity of unintentional injuries to New
Zealand's children aged 0 - 14 years. Booster Rooster was one of their
successful entries. In October, following the Safety 2012 World Conference, NZ Government
officials announced that they were raising the mandatory age for child restraints, to protect the most vulnerable members of
our community-- children up to seven years old. 16 children a year are killed
and 5 a week are hospitalised as a result of injuries they receive as passengers in
motor vehicles in New Zealand. The new law will require children up to the age of seven to be placed in a restraint, while those aged between seven and eight
have to use one if it is available.
The character of Booster Rooster was devised to appeal to children and to show how tall children have to be before they can sit in a normal seatbelt in a car without damage in the event of a car crash/accident. One of the resources available from Safekids, is the Booster Rooster 148cm Height Chart.
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The world Safety 2012 conference was held recently in Wellington. Several Rotorua delegates including representatives from Treasure Rotorua, Rotorua Safe Communities Steering Group, attended.– Brief extracts of some interesting presentations have been provided by Ann Esler. ♦ Thinking about safety every day… Earthquakes have impacts long after the ground shakes. Wellington was host for the Safety 2012 Conference this year. One of the buildings booked to offer the programme from – Wellington Town Hall, could not be used due to concerns about the building’s resilience to an earthquake. Several nearby locations were bought on as venues which allowed the visitors from 83 countries to experience the sights and sounds of Wellington’s busy waterfront, and Civic Square spaces. Sun and wind welcomed everyone on all but half a day. Comedian Pio Terei was the conference MC. He made much of the NZ greeting – raised eyebrows and a slight lift of the head and eyes skyward, in his opening remarks. Several international speakers adopted this ‘NZ greeting’ when arriving to present their sessions. Humour pervaded the conference, and was used by many speakers to make a point. Often the humour was followed by a contrasting emotion – helping to make a more powerful point. One of the highlight speakers for this reviewer was John Carnochan. ♦ Preventing violence - using empathy…. John is a Detective Chief Superintendant of the Scottish Violence Reduction Unit. This unit has a Scotland wide role. His fundamental tenet is that ‘violence is preventable – not inevitable’. He told the story of a young man – David who he described as born to fail – the perfect storm. He told the story in slides – outlining the facts around this young man in his early years, which led him to being convicted of culpable homicide when he was 15 years old. The story highlighted some of the circumstances and social conditions that increased David’s vulnerability, and at the same time identified opportunities where effective intervention could have changed his life course. John’s argument is that the justice system ‘dealt’ with David as an offender by locking him up, and yet in all his early years other interventions could have offered support and changed the course of his life. Had there been support for David’s mother, and David, to grow up with safe, stable and nurturing relationships, and effective coordination of services that were timely and focussed on positive outcomes, David may not have committed murder.
Safety 2012 World Conference 1 - 4 October, Wellington.
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John believes that we all learn skills between 2-3yrs old that can help us manage anger and our reactions, and that empathy is the glue that holds us all together. In order to prevent violence, countries need to spend less money on universities and more on early childcare services and nurses. ♦ Work places driving alcohol safety messages… Another presenter who offered an action approach to researching safety was Dr Paul Quigley, an Emergency Medicine Specialist at Wellington Hospital. Paul outlined how Wellington Emergency Department (ED) staff started collecting information about the clients they saw each day, and how their use of alcohol led to health presentations for injuries at hospital. Dr Quigley reviewed a year of Wellington ED data and found: • 80% of all facial fractures seen are related to alcohol • Most admissions came from areas with a high density of alcohol outlets • More young women were being admitted for alcohol poisoning than young men, and each required close watching over several hours to limit the damage done to themselves. The years 16-20 years are considered to be the healthiest of a person’s life and people in this age group should not be seen in EDs – however they form a large part of the people admitted with alcohol related injuries. Staff cared for children as young as 11yrs.
♦ Learning from disasters… Two speakers talked about what they had learnt about injuries following disasters, and how this information could help prepare people to respond to future events. David Johnston from GNS Science showed how reviewing the information about injuries sustained by people living in Christchurch after the September 2010 and February 2011 earthquakes provided useful information to agencies in terms of targeting their messages about how to keep safe after an emergency. The data showed that after the September earthquake most of the injuries were from people going to do something – for example a mother checking on children and falling over a toppled chest of drawers or bookshelf, or families opening doors into kitchen and falling over cans of food which had been spilled out of cupboards. In the February earthquake most injuries were from people being hit by a falling object. In terms of future safety messages – this information can be used to influence people’s actions before, during and after earthquakes. For example, there could be messages encouraging people to have a torch or other light on hand, before moving into rooms after an earthquake which has happened at night.
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Another speaker from Australia, Dr Franklin outlined how he had reviewed information about the injuries sustained by people near Townsville, after Cyclone Yasi a category 5 cyclone came ashore there. One third of all people presenting after the cyclone had injuries – with the most common injury being an open wound of the wrist or hand, and other high ranking injuries consisted of open wounds to head, or feet. Most of these injuries were sustained as people tried to tidy up, or work to repair damage, immediately after the cyclone had passed through.
♦Making spaces unpredictable…a window cleaner’s influence on creating safe spaces... Another speaker of note was David Engwicht, an Australian who started his working life as a window cleaner. David has spent years creating vibrant public spaces and has worked all over the world – making spaces unpredictable. David argues that when roads and public spaces have activities happening in them, drivers are more cautious about travelling through them, and lower their speed. When drivers travel through roads with high fences and no obvious signs of inhabitants, they speed up because they think the space is unused. David invented the Walking School Bus concept, Traffic tamers and creative spaces approaches. The latter was dramatically shown in two slides – the first of a normal travel suitcase of a modest size sitting on a pavement, the second of David’s throne – a chair upholstered in bright yellow and purple fabric with a hat rack and feathers like a children’s book picture. David sits in the middle of roads on his chair to add intrigue and uncertainty to the area and slow drivers down – everyone wants to know why he is there, and whilst slowing to ask him, make the streets and public spaces safer!.
If you want to learn more about the topics covered or view key-note presentations from the 2012 Safety Conference link to
www.safety2012.org.nz.
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Page 8 Rural WatchRural WatchRural WatchRural Watch Neighbourhood Support doesn ’ t only operate in the cities and towns, it also effectively operates in the rural community. A large part of the Rotorua Policing District is rural and most areas have a Rural Watch organised in conjunction with the Police specifically tasked with responsibility for a rural area. To assist the updating of contact lists in Rural areas Neighbourhood Support Rotorua maintains the contact lists for the Rural Groups. Recently those living in the Reporoa area have been asked to update their contact lists, a copy of this list is held in the Reporoa Policing Centre and the master list held by Neighbourhood Support. If you live in any rural area, not just Reporoa ensure your details have been updated. Rural CrimeRural CrimeRural CrimeRural Crime Recently the butchering of stock, specifically deer, has been noted in areas adjacent to the Rotorua Policing District. Also theft of diesel from storage facilities and vehicles has been occurring. Keep an eye out for suspicious vehicles or activities in your area. During this time of the year there is an upsurge of rural thefts of quads, motor bikes and four wheel drive vehicles. This is normally related to criminals involved in drug crop growing, so it is important to report losses immediately they are known. If you see something contact the Police immediately and also let your Rural Watch/Neighbourhood Support Contact Person know so your whole area can be notified.
Rural Community Safety Day Rural Community Safety Day Rural Community Safety Day Rural Community Safety Day Sunday 9th December Reporoa Domain-East Road 9-4pm.
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Alcohol related injury from falls poster.Alcohol related injury from falls poster.Alcohol related injury from falls poster.Alcohol related injury from falls poster. If you wish to order either this poster or the one shown on the back page please email [email protected]
Rotorua has a large number of organisations who are helping make our
community safer and we’d like to hear about what you’ve been up to!
Contributions to this newsletter are very
welcome and can be forwarded to the Community Safety Projects Officer
at Rotorua District Council (electronic versions are
preferred), by 24th November 2012 make the next newsletter.
Rotorua District Council
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Rotorua Mail Centre
ROTORUA 3046
Phone: 07 351 8172
Fax: 07 350 0206
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