Pool Safely: Virginia pool industry’s ability to identify drowning and injury risks, and facilitate risk mitigation or removal, at residential and public pools: A virtual educational event.
Facilitated by The Virginia Department of Health’s Office of Environmental Health Services and the Office of Family Health Services, Injury and Violence Prevention Program for pool service, maintenance, construction professionals and organizations focused on promoting injury prevention for children.
Registration (virtual) site: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3479088302881122831
This event will deliver key messages on risk factors that pool industry professionals are uniquely placed to spot and mitigate, such as missing drain covers, unsafe ingress and egress features, lack of 4-sided barrier systems, damaged fencing, gates, or latches, and missing safety equipment. Education efforts will focus on describing risks, connecting the risks to negative health outcomes, and identifying interventions that pool professionals can take to mitigate or remove the risk, or facilitate risk removal by others (owners of pools, including residential pools).
Hear from experts in the field of pool industry, along with data, fatality review, and public risk communication experts.
For more information, contact the Virginia Department of Health Injury and Violence Prevention Program at ivp@vdh.virginia.
Register at: https://saferoutespartnership-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAvdeGsrTsoG9QdPVzR8ehF0I-FpIv4ejp_
As we begin to round the corner on COVID-19, schools across the country are planning to welcome back most, if not all, students for in-person learning this fall. Join us for an informal Zoom session on preparing your Safe Routes to School program for Back to School 2021. Learn about Back to School resources from Safe Routes Partnership, see highlights from Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT)’s Safe Routes to School program that engaged students and families during the pandemic, and connect with other Safe Routes practitioners during informal breakout sessions.
NOTE: There will be brief presentations by Safe Routes Partnership and PBOT Safe Routes to School practitioners at the start of the meeting. The rest of the session will be reserved for connecting with others during breakout groups based on discussion topics. We will not be facilitating the discussion but we will provide guiding questions. Please participate in this brief survey to let us know what breakout discussion topics you’d like to see at the upcoming Zoom session!
The next Complete Streets meeting will be on August 11, from 5:30-7pm at Hardywood Brewery (2401 Ownby Lane).
Walk, bike, ride, or roll on over to chat with fellow Complete Streets Richmonders about what you’ve been up to, what you’re planning to do, and what you’d like to see this group take on in the coming year. Come for 30 minutes or stay the whole time.
Register at: https://unc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_V1pTlZ-yRsaDld7wH9s7VA
The US has long taken a safety individualism approach, both in its messaging around safety behaviors and in its laws and structures for accountability for a traffic-related injury. As Safe Systems advocates promote a more “shared responsibility” for safety, there is a need to unpack what shared responsibility means and what aspects of our system must change to redistribute the balance of power and accountability to prevent a crash. Panelists will talk about how system structures are designed to protect corporations and roadway owners from responsibility and crash liability, perpetuating a burden on individuals.
Moderated by Seth LaJeunesse, Senior Research Associate at the UNC Highway Safety Research Center
Review manual forsafety seat and install as best as possible prior to arrival.
Registration Requirements: https://savingprincewilliamslittles.com/events/?sheet_id=27
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Other Notes: Many communities across the United Statesrecognize the benefits of developing shared use paths and other trails to maketransportation network connections for bicyclists and pedestrians and toincrease physical activity and improve health. A new report from the U.S.Department of Transportation, Rails-with-Trails: Best Practices and LessonsLearned, examines safety, design, and liability issues associated with thedevelopment of shared use paths and other trails adjacent to active railroadand transit rights-of-way. It explores lessons learned from the experience ofrails-with-trails, and suggests best practices to enhance safety and securityfor railroads, transit, and trail users. During this webinar, the authors willshare findings, recommendations, and lessons learned. Following thepresentations, the panelists will respond to questions from webinarparticipants.
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Other Notes: Many factors contribute to the high rate ofmotor vehicle-related deaths among teens – including lack of drivingexperience, lack of seat belt use, excessive speed, distractions, and drug andalcohol impairment. Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death forU.S. teens with nearly seven teens (aged 13–19) dying and hundreds more beinginjured every day. In this webinar, Dr. Barbara Banz of the Yale Schoolof Medicine will discuss the neuroscience of driving for teens and thecomplexity in teen crashes from a developmental perspective. Dr. Federico Vaca,also at the Yale School of Medicine, will share his work on the relativelynewer phenomenon of teens delaying their driving licensure, includingadvantages and disadvantages, contributing factors, differences amongracial/ethnic groups, and implications for graduated driving licensure and teendriver safety. Both Dr. Banz and Dr. Vaca will share prevention strategies andresources. Sally Thigpen, of the CDC and an active CSN-A member, will moderate thiswebinar.
For additional information, visit: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/cu/tZGLnck
The 2021 Virtual National Forum on Overdose Fatality Review Mid-Year Meeting: From the Field—Unifying Policy and Practice Standards is being provided by the Bureau of Justice Assistance’s (BJA) Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Program (COSSAP) and in partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Building on the momentum of local efforts, national experts will discuss the convergence of OFR and PHAST. Successful local efforts unifying OFR and PHAST will be highlighted with an opportunity for participants to ask questions and engage. In addition, new and upcoming initiatives will be unveiled to support your local community in continuing to develop policy and practices to reduce overdose deaths while informing national standards.
In preparation of the meeting, review the following background information/resources:
- OFR – Online Toolkit
- PHAST – Version 2.0 Toolkit
This webinar is free, but you must register here.Thanks to the support of our 2021Highway Safety Champions, it’s presented as a warm-up to GHSA’sAnnual Meeting, which will be held in-person, September 11-15 in Denver,Colorado.
Registration Requirements: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/2337745754340976140?source=GHSA+Website
Other Notes: Conveying traffic safety messages that not onlyreach your target audience but compel them to look, listen and act doesn’thappen by accident. The most effective campaigns and messages are built – andretooled – using research and data. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn howNHTSA is using research and data to reinvigorate a legacy traffic safety brandand why the agency communicates the way it does. Explore what was involved indeveloping “Go Safely,” the California Office of Traffic Safety’s new safetycampaign, and how focus groups and ongoing discussions with marijuana advocatesinform the Colorado Highway Safety Offices’ “Cannabis Conversations” and “Don’tDrive High” campaign. And delve into how GDC Marketing and Ideation works withstates, nonprofits and others to build traffic safety campaigns usingevidence-based strategies that deliver results.