Category: Resource Hub

Keep children safe from button batteries

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  Every week, around 20 Australian children present to an emergency department following exposure to button batteries, including ingestions and insertions. Keep products with button batteries out of sight and out of reach of small children. Kids are like little safecrackers – they get into everything, including products and devices that use button batteries. If … Continued

Incorporating statistics and evaluation into your safety campaigns.

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The importance of including evaluation as a part of your planning when undertaking a safety promotion or injury prevention campaign was one of the key points made by evaluation expert Anthony Morgan during a VSCN-hosted webinar.

Mr Morgan is the Australian Institute of Criminology’s Research Manager for the Crime Prevention and Evaluation Research program and joined Fiona Dowsley, the Victorian Crime Statistics Agency’s Chief Statistician on the hour-long webinar.

Preventing dog bites

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Each year, about 13,000 people attend hospital emergency departments in Australia for dog bite injuries. Children under the age of five are most at risk, and are most frequently bitten by their own family dog or by a friend’s dog, usually in or around the home.

Maximising your membership

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Alan Matic from Our Communities talks to Kate Robertson about how to make the most of his organisation’s resources – available free of charge to all VSCN members.

Helping children with special needs to travel safely

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Appropriate use of a child restraint significantly reduces the risk of injury to a child in the event of a car crash. However, some parents and carers of children with a disability can find it challenging to obtain a restraint that meets their child’s special needs. The Transportation of Children with Additional Needs (TOCAN) partnership … Continued

Falls prevention resource

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Falls are the greatest cause of injury of children in Victoria, resulting in about 31,000 emergency department visits each year, and about 6,000 of those children needing to be admitted to hospital.

WHO manual tackles youth death by violence

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Youth violence is the 4th leading cause of death in young people worldwide: a new World Health Organization (WHO) manual highlights the health burden of youth violence and provides an overview about how to prevent it.

Each year an estimated 200 000 young people aged 10-29 years are murdered, making homicide the fourth leading cause of death in young people globally.