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Injury Insight: Child’s play: why it’s time to pop the bubble wrap
This report discusses the need for exposure to competence-appropriate risky play in play spaces that limit hazards, while promoting healthy child development.
Opportunity for youth and injury prevention
Parachute is now accepting applications for the Stacey Levitt Memorial Award.
It’s burn awareness week
Burn Awareness Week teaches kids how to be responsible for their personal safety, and increases family awareness of potentially harmful situations.
BC sector-wide road safety calendar
This road safety calendar is a guide to the key provincial road safety campaigns, events and activities taking place each year in BC.
Falls prevention through integrated health care
Ms. Isobel McDonald from the First Nations Health Authority gave an excellent presentation on community-based falls prevention programming in First Nations communities.
The next Canadian Falls Prevention Curriculum now open for registration
This updated five-week e-learning course will help you acquire the knowledge and skills needed to apply an evidence-based approach to the prevention of falls and fall-related injuries.
Great resource: Be Smart, Don’t Choke
Choking and suffocation is responsible for almost 40% of unintentional injuries in infants under the age of one in Canada.
Injury Insight: Road safety among vulnerable road users
Read our new Injury Insight report on vulnerable road users and the disproportionate adverse consequences from motor vehicle collisions.
BCIRPU team members receive UBC President’s Award for Global Citizenship
Members of the BC Injury Research and Prevention Unit have been awarded the UBC 2014 President’s Staff Award for Global Citizenship.
Keeping kids safe on bikes, skateboards and more: new research
New research from Dr. Mariana Brussoni shows that helmet laws really do make a difference.