Pre Conference Workshops
Workshop One | Workshop Two | Workshop Three | Workshop Four | Workshop Five | Workshop Six | Workshop Seven | Workshop Eight | Workshop Nine
Tuesday 1 November 2011 - 10.00am - 4.30pm (including lunch)
The following workshop will be held at the University of Queensland, Herston campus, on the afternoon of Tuesday 1 November.
To register, please complete the online registration process and select your preferred workshop. Please note, workshops will need to reach a minimum number of registrations by 31 August or they may be cancelled. If a workshop is cancelled, those already registered may opt to attend an alternative workshop, or receive a refund.
Workshop One: Reducing Alcohol Related Injury: Reverie or Reality?
presented by the Injury Prevention Special Interest Group, PHAA
Associate Professor Richard Franklin, James Cook University
Dr Kerrianne Watt, University of Queensland
Gordana Blazevic, Safe Communities Australia
The health and social costs associated with alcohol use have been widely reported. The consequences of excessive drinking are widespread, and impact on the individual, their family and friends, their community, the population, and the economy. There has been much focus on reducing the health and societal consequences of harmful alcohol use, and although the beverage of choice may have changed, arguably little has shifted the image of the beer swilling Aussie! We sing about this icon, we toast our glasses and celebrate the implied mateship, and we continue to add the statistics in the injury counts across the country.
The evidence is clear that even small amounts of alcohol can change behaviour and lead to injury and death. This workshop will raise the question - Is there any such thing as “safe drinking”? This seemingly simple question is extremely complex and has significant implications for the prevention of alcohol-related injuries.
The purpose of this workshop is to bring together a wide range of people and organisations with an injury - and more broadly, public health – perspective, as part of a community-wide process to build consensus on alcohol management.
Specifically, the workshop aims to:
- Describe patterns of alcohol use and related injury impacts
- Discuss and document progress made in the last two decades in the field of alcohol management
- Identify what has changed during this time period, and define the new challenges
- Identify the factors that enhance and impede responsible alcohol management and injury prevention
- Discuss the approaches utilised in different settings, in the context of what works and what doesn’t work
- Explore the nature of collaborative approaches, and consider what builds strong partnerships to reduce alcohol related injury
This is a forum for researchers, practitioners, clinicians, advocates, licensees, emergency service workers, and leaders interested in alcohol management, injury prevention & public health to share their experiences, and to help identify the steps required to fulfil our collective vision of injury prevention and safe environments.
Workshop participants will be invited to extend their discussions via an electronic forum supported by the Injury Prevention SIG (PHAA), with posting to include workshop notes and presentations, links to programs and input into policy development.
Cost: $88 per person (includes GST), includes morning tea, lunch and all workshop materials - Register Now
Wednesday 2 November 2011 - 8am – 12noon
The following workshops will be held at the Conference venue on the morning of Wednesday 2 November, following which the full conference program will commence at 1pm.
To register, please complete the online registration process and select your preferred workshop. Please note, workshops will need to reach a minimum number of registrations by 31 August or they may be cancelled. If a workshop is cancelled, those already registered may opt to attend an alternative workshop, or receive a refund.
Workshop Two: Injury Research Methods – for those who need to know how to read research (cancelled)
Dr Kerrianne Watt, School of Population Health, The University of Queensland
Workshop Three: “FLIP” a method for planning community safety promotion programs: finding the right treatment starts by making the right diagnosis
Dr Dale Hanson, James Cook University
Designing effective safety promotion programs is about finding creative solutions to the tension between visionary dreams and practical solutions. Nothing will be achieved unless you have the vision to imagine a better reality, but nothing can be achieved unless you have the pragmatism to seek out effective solutions. Big problems must be broken down into components that can be solved. Big plans must be broken down into incremental steps that can be achieved.
Unfortunately, the same mistake is made over and over again. People race to the solutions before taking the time to understand the problem. This is a guaranteed way to end up solving the wrong problem!
It’s not hard, provided you remember to “FLIP”. Start by making sure you understand the problem, then “FLIP” to the solutions.
This system for helping communities plan a safety promotion program guides them through six simple steps that culminate in the formulation of a comprehensive project plan.
Cost: $88 per person (includes GST), includes morning tea, lunch and all workshop materials - Register Now
Workshop Four: Rural Injury and its Prevention
Associate Professor Daryl Pedler, Education and Research Initiative, Monash University
Tony Lower, Australian Centre for Agricultural Health and Safety, University of Sydney
Rural Injury may be defined as an entity consisting of both rural specific injury (e.g. Farm/agricultural injury, Mining related injury and Injuries in state/national parks) and Injury which is not rural location specific, but has features differentiating it from injuries resulting from similar incidents in metropolitan settings, such as Boating & fishing injuries, Road trauma and Sporting injuries.
Injury prevention (be it primary, secondary or tertiary) can be considered as applying at three levels - situational (the site of the injury incident), treatment access (to first aid or primary, secondary or tertiary health care) and population level injury prevention programs. Injury incidents in rural settings pose particular issues for injury prevention.
This workshop will explore implications for the development of appropriate injury prevention programs for rural injury by;
- Considering prevention strategies for some particular examples of rural injury;
- Discussing potential future developments in rural injury prevention.
Cost: $88 per person (includes GST), includes morning tea, lunch and all workshop materials - Register Now
Workshop Five: Preventing musculoskeletal sport injuries by designing interventions to treat the mechanisms of injury (cancelled)
David Lloyd, Griffith Health Institute, Griffith University; Winthrop Professor Bruce Elliott, University of Western Australia; Professor Peter Milburn, Griffith University; Doctor Cyril J. Donnelly, University of Western Australia; Doctor Alasdair Dempsey, Griffith University and Professor Caroline Finch, Monash University
Workshop Six: Safe Children Communities, presented by Kidsafe, the child Accident Prevention Foundation of Australia
Eric Chalmers, Kidsafe ACT & Chair Network Advisory Council, Safe Kids Worldwide
Sue Wicks, Kidsafe WA
Gudula Brandmyr, Safe Kids Austria, International Affairs
This workshop introduces Safe Children Communities (SCC) - an initiative of Safe Kids Worldwide (SKW) in collaboration with the WHO Collaborating Centre on Community Safety Promotion.
SCC is a child specific adjunct to Safe Communities. The initiative utilizes the 19 member Safe Kids Worldwide network of injury prevention organizations to provide support to communities in gaining designation.
The workshop will outline:
- Objectives for the initiative
- Progress following designation of the first SCC and Affiliate Support Centre, both in Austria
- Methodologies SKW will utilize to support SCC in both developed and developing countries
- Flexibility that includes support for the extension of existing Safe Communities to greater focus on children; the designation of specific SCCs; and the potential of designated SCCs to acquire future designation as a Safe Community
The workshop will review how the initiative can best support the extension of child safety initiatives into Australian communities, including increased support for existing Safe Communities.
Cost: $88 per person (includes GST), includes morning tea, lunch and all workshop materials - Register Now
Workshop Seven: Obtaining and maintaining optimal floor slip resistance for improved safety (cancelled)
Richard Bowman, Intertile Research and Andrew Stewart, SlipAlert
Workshop Eight: Road Traffic Injuries in Low and Middle Income Countries, presented by the Road Traffic Injury Research Network
Associate Professor Adnan Hyder, Johns Hopkins University
Professor Shanthi Ameratunga, University of Auckland
Associate Professor Rebecca Ivers, The George Institute, University of Sydney
Dr Margie Peden, World Health Organisation
This workshop will facilitate an in depth discussion of road traffic injuries in low and middle income settings, and to examine effective solutions as well as gaps in current knowledge. Topics that will be covered include the burden of road traffic injury in low and middle income countries, with a focus on the Asia Pacific Region; the impact of disability; issues and gaps in data; effective solutions for prevention as well as case studies including the RS10 Bloomberg project . The workshop will be presented by experts from RTIRN, the Road Traffic Injury Research Network.
Cost: $88 per person (includes GST), includes morning tea, lunch and all workshop materials - Register Now
Workshop Nine: From Student to Injury Prevention Professional. Your Career Starts Today.
 Sponsored by Centre for Accident Research & Road Safety - Queensland
Are you a Masters or PhD student in the injury field? It doesn’t matter whether you are studying full or part time, how old you are, the career path you are (or are not!) thinking may suit you, and how far through your degree you are. You can start building your injury career today! Would you like to hear from experts who can help you with methodological issues, professional relationships, advocacy, and career development? Would you like to hear the career pathways experienced by professionals in the field of injury prevention? Are you interested in meeting other students who are researching in the many fields of injury prevention? Then the AIPN Student Workshop is for you!
This workshop is free to all full-time students also registering to attend the full conference. For those attending the workshop only, the cost is $55 (includes GST) - Register Now
All attendees will receive morning tea, lunch and workshop materials.
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