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More than 2000 children around the world die every day from an accident which could have been prevented.
Defining practical safety education
On 10th February 2010 the CSEC team considered the working description of high quality practical safety education from the CSEC statement of purpose and the findings from the CSEC / AdRisk international seminar.
The following summary brings together both views and now constitutes CSEC’s definition of high quality practical safety education and will be used by CSEC as a tool for developing policy, strategy, resources and services.
High quality practical safety education can be recognised because it has clear aims and objectives which:
- help children and young people develop risk competence appropriate for their age and developmental stage
- use active, interactive and experiential learning in a variety of challenging but controlled environments
- develop injury prevention knowledge, skills, perceptions and attitudes
- encourages and supports reflection on the attitudes
- is quality assured against evidence based standards
- encourages personal responsibility for keeping themselves (and others) safe
- is part of a wider strategy to prevent unintentional injury
For more information about how this definition was reached, please see the following documents:
- Defining high quality practical safety education - March 2010 (
PDF 44kb). - Final report from the CSEC / AdRisk joint international seminar (held November 2009) (PDF 65kb).
- Appendices to the final report from the CSEC / AdRisk joint international seminar (PDF 187kb).
