Links

Gas Safe Register

Gas Safe Register is the official gas registration body for the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and Guernsey appointed by the relevant Health and Safety Authority for each area. Gas Safe Register replaced CORGI as the gas registration body in Great Britain and Isle of Man on 1 April 2009 and Northern Ireland and Guernsey on 1 April 2010

RoSPA

Every year in the UK almost 4,000 people die in accidents in the home and 2.7 million turn up at accident and emergency departments seeking treatment. But, because the accidents happen behind closed doors in isolated incidents they rarely attract public and media attention. RoSPA is one of the few national voices speaking out on this issue. We also campaign for change and provide a large range of resources to inform, educate and help to prevent accidents in the home and garden.

The Child Accident Prevention Trust

The Child Accident Prevention Trust (CAPT) is the UK’s leading charity working to reduce the number of children and young people killed, disabled or seriously injured in accidents.

Making the Link

Making the Link is here to support people working to prevent unintentional injury to children and young people in England.

The Injury observatory

The Injury observatory is an international collaborative venture representing public health observatories from Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and regions of England. It is managed by a steering group of public health professionals committed to injury prevention.

CAPIC

CAPIC is a multi-disciplinary multiagency collaboration of individuals and organisations which support injury prevention initiatives across Wales. CAPIC is supported by the Welsh Assembly Government through Public Health Wales, as a component of Health Challenge Wales.

Home Safety Scotland

Home Safety Scotland consists of home safety officers, community safety officers, health promotion officers and others from various local authorities and health boards and representatives from private companies.The group meets every two months to discuss different ways to take home safety forward.

Children in Wales

Children in Wales is the national umbrella organisation for those working with children and young people in Wales.

Whoops

We are unique in our approach to reducing preventable injury by being the only training organisation of its kind in the UK. We offer ground breaking safety initiatives and use hard-hitting visual resources to back up our safety messages, working in partnership with various regional and national organisations to actively promote unintentional injury awareness and the necessary skills to reduce such injury.

The Trauma and Injury Intelligence Group

The Trauma and Injury Intelligence Group (TIIG) was established to look at access to quality and reliable injury information. A major element of TIIG is the establishment of an Injury Surveillance System (ISS) across the North West of England.

CAPJ

CAPJ is a group working very hard in Jersey trying to keep children safe from having a nasty accident. We also strongly believe that children should not be wrapped up in cotton wool but need to have fun, explore and learn how to manage their own risk as they get older.

Electrical Safety Council

UK charity that’s dedicated to keeping people safe by reducing the risk of electrical accidents around the home and in the work place.

Switched on kids

Electricity and how to use it safely – interactive site aimed at engaging children.

The Association of Public Health Observatories

The Association of Public Health Observatories (APHO) represents a network of 12 public health observatories (PHOs) working across the five nations of England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. We produce information, data and intelligence on people’s health and health care for practitioners, policy makers and the wider community. Our expertise lies in turning information and data into meaningful health intelligence.

FSID

The Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths is the UK’s leading baby charity aiming to prevent unexpected deaths in infancy and promote infant health. FSID fulfils these aims by:

Funding research
Supporting families whose babies have died suddenly and unexpectedly
Disseminating information on infant health, baby care and sudden infant deaths to health professionals and the general public
Working with professionals to improve investigations when a baby dies

The Scottish Cot Death Trust

The Scottish Cot Death Trust was founded in 1985 and has three main aims:

To improve and extend the support for bereaved families
To raise funds for research into the cause(s) of cot death
To educate the public and health care professionals about cot death and ways of reducing the risks

The Trust is the only cot death charity in Scotland
Visit Website

The European Child Safety Alliance

The European Child Safety Alliance was launched in 2000 with the ambition to make the lives of children living in Europe safer. Today, more than 30 countries across Europe are working together to reduce the leading cause of death and disability to children in every Member State in the region – injury.
Visit Website

Lifeskills Centres

Also referred to as ‘Lifeskills Centres’, Safety Centres are exciting and realistic indoor townscapes that include life-like scenarios such as a street scene, road crossing, car, water scene, railway, house, shop and much more. These scenarios enable Centres to deliver practical, interactive, scenario-based education to children and adults in safety, citizenship and life skills. Some Alliance members are charities and others are run by the emergency services or local authorities
Visit Website

The Scottish Burned Children’s Club

The Scottish Burned Children’s Club (SBCC) is an organisation that helps children, up to the age of eighteen, who have sustained burn and scald injuries. We are a registered Scottish Charity, Registration No. SCO32376, our website will give you an understanding of what we are trying to achieve and how we accomplish this with the kind support from all our sponsors and through fund raising.
Visit Website

Scottish Accident Prevention Council

Formed in 1930 the Scottish Accident Prevention Council is the only body in Scotland where practitioners, politicians, frontline staff, academics, government, local authorities, health professionals and interested partners come together to formulate and enhance the worth of accident prevention.
Visit Website

Streetwise

Every year thousands of children are injured in preventable accidents in the home, on the roads and at play. LV=Streetwise helps to minimise the risk of accidents happening by making children aware of potential dangers in the everyday world around them.
Visit Website

Staywise

We’re a dynamic team based at Royal Berkshire Fire & Rescue Service Headquarters. Our aim is to collate existing educational resources from emergency services and other agencies from around the country and present them here for use by teachers and service personnel. This means teachers can browse our libraries and schemes of work and then use the activities and resources attached. Emergency service personnel will be able to see what teachers are doing and within their section discover how they can play their part in these lessons too.
Visit Website

Fire Safety in the home

Comprehensive site with advice about fire safety and prevention in the home.

(c) 2012 Institute of Home Safety. All rights reserved. Design Clarke Associates