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This year Kidsafe week is scheduled for the second week in October. This
Hot Topic explores its purpose and collects some sites relevant to the
safety of children both at school and outside class.
Safekids, an organisation founded by Starship Children's Hospital in
Auckland, founded Kidsafe Week in New Zealand in 1996.
The week is designed to focus on raising awareness and promoting injury
prevention at community and national levels.
Making sure kids are safe includes educating children and caregivers
about injury prevention and child safety, educating communities, advocating
for safety conscious legislation and policies, strengthening the skills
of those working in injury prevention, and helping organisations improve
their safety practice.
Resources on TKI
Health
education
The health education writing team has developed examples of starter units
in health education (www.tki.org.nz/r/health/starter_units/index_e.php).
TKI's health and physical education community also has a calendar of events,
news, and a collection of curriculum-related websites (www.tki.org.nz/e/health/).
Taking
Good Care of Ourselves
English Online provides an integrated English and health unit with teaching
and learning activities designed for education outside the classroom.
Students are asked to develop, identify, and use safe strategies for orienteering,
cycling, water safety, and first aid (http://english.unitecnology.ac.nz/resources/units/good_care/home.html).
ACC
The Accident Compensation Corporation's website includes information about
the operation of ACC, ACC premiums, injury prevention programmes, and
employer responsibilities (www.acc.co.nz).
ACC's sportsmart site (www.sportsmart.org.nz)
provides information on common injuries, injury prevention, injury management,
physical conditioning, and protective equipment.
Bully OnLine
The Bully OnLine website includes information and resources on bullying
in schools, playgrounds, workplaces, and homes (www.successunlimited.co.uk/).
Bullying Stories
This site provides stories from children who have been victims of bullying
(http://www.bullying.org/public/frameset.cfm).
Bullying
and victimisation
This website article describes bullying in Canada, and gives suggestions
for dealing with bully behaviour that affects students, and the roles
that school, parents, and the community can take to reduce bullying (www.crime-prevention.org/english/publications/children/violence/).
Dr Aargh
Occupational Safety and Health's (OSH) site for students in the workforce
includes an online quiz, information on farm hazards, a legal guide, and
an information kit for secondary teachers produced by the New Zealand
Council of Trade Unions (www.osh.dol.govt.nz/kidz/index.html).
OSH
OSH's main site provides legislation about health and safety in the workplace,
details on safety training, and links to the information kit for use by
teachers in school (www.osh.dol.govt.nz/).
Road safety research
The Land Transport Safety Authority's website provides research data related
to road safety in New Zealand, specifically on four key priority areas:
safer people, safer roads, safer vehicles, and safety management (www.ltsa.govt.nz/research/index.html).
Safekids
Auckland's Starship Children's Hospital provides information on this site
to reduce the incidence and severity of unintentional injury to children
aged under 14 years. The website includes factsheets and statistics about
children's injuries, safe routes to school, Kidsafe Week, and advocacy
strategies (www.safekids.org.nz).
The Order of St John
The St John's site provides information about the services that they have
to offer, including training, the ambulance, and community support (www.stjohn.org.nz).
Safety in the Outdoors
New Zealand Outdoors Instructors Association
This association provides training and assessment for outdoors instructors.
Its website includes a resource page for technical articles, assessment
tips, tools, and a noticeboard to discuss technical issues relating to
instructing outdoor pursuits (www.nzoia.org.nz).
Education Outdoors
New Zealand EONZ is the subject association for outdoor educators in New
Zealand (www.eonz.org).
Outdoor Safety Institute
This organisation provides a range of resources available, in pdf format,
including a code of ethics for outdoor educators, a handbook for incident
accident analysis, risk analysis management system (RAMS), and a synopsis
of legislation relevant to outdoor recreation activities in New Zealand
(www.risk.net.nz//dwnlds.htm).
Outdoors New Zealand
This website includes the Safe As Outside kit for teachers, boards of
trustees, parents, and students to promote safe practices in the outdoors
(www.outdoorassembly.org.nz).
Water Safety New Zealand
This website lists resources including booklets, videos, posters, and
manuals, covering topics that include swimming, surfing, river safety,
boating, diving, fishing, kayaking, preschool safety, and lifesaving.
Resources may be ordered from this site (www.watersafety.org.nz).
Coastguard Boating Education Service
This website describes courses run by Coastguard New Zealand. These may
be of assistance for teachers planning sailing and sea kayaking activities
(www.cbes.org.nz).
Yachting
New Zealand
This site includes information about SailSafe, a yachting awareness and
water safety programme developed by Yachting New Zealand for use in New
Zealand primary and intermediate schools (http://www.yachtingnz.org.nz/135_1/135_1_top.cfm?pageid=40&parentid=40).
New Zealand Mountain Safety
Council
The New Zealand Mountain Safety Council develops and monitors training
programmes, produces technical manuals, provides administrative support
and information, and publicises outdoor safety. The website provides access
to courses, resources, and local contacts (www.mountainsafety.org.nz).
Resources on the
wider web
Kidsafe week
The Kidsafe week site (www.kidsafe.org.nz)
has resources from previous years' kidsafe weeks including checklists
for water safety, electrical safety, fact sheets, and a guide to school
swimming pool safety.
Police
The New Zealand Police website (www.police.govt.nz)
provides news, special reports, information on wanted people, and a great
collection of safety tips.
Fight bacteria
The Partnership for Food Safety Education developed the Fightbac site
to focus on keeping safe from bacteria. It has sections for educators
and consumers and information on food-borne illnesses (www.fightbac.org).
Health education
The Health Education database has been established by the Ministry of
Health to improve access to health publications and resources from a variety
of sources (www.healthed.govt.nz).
A guide
to safe schools
This online guide explores topics such as developing an action plan, early
warnings of school violence, behavioural risk management, crisis response,
and reducing and preventing violence (www.air-dc.org/cecp/guide/earlywarning.htm).
Curriculum
links on TKI
Health and Physical Education in the New Zealand Curriculum is available
on TKI (www.tki.org.nz/r/health/curriculum/statement/toc_e.php).
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