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Injury Prevention

Position:

Most injuries are preventable, and programs aimed at reducing them are effective ways of reducing disability and mortality caused by falls and other traumas. While public health units deliver programs based on narrowly defined obligations in the Mandatory Health Programs and Services Guidelines, other strategies aimed at reducing the rate of injuries in Ontario may be implemented through the policies of other Ministries of Government, including Labour and Municipal Affairs and Housing.  

 Resolutions  Recent Developments

 

A10-1 -  Amending Regulation 565 To Improve Public Swimming Pool Admission Standards

that the Association of Local Public Health Agencies (alPHa) request that the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care ratify the Coroner’s admission standards and amend the Regulation 565 to include these recommended admission standards

 

 

October 28 2010

Response received to the correspondence notifying the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care of this and four other 2010 alPHa resolutions. Please click here to read

August 19 2010

alPHa has sent a letter to the Minister of Health and Long-Term Care introducing this and four other 2010 Resolutions. Please click here to read.

 

A08-7 - Promoting Safe Driving in Young Drivers

That alPHa request the Province that in the development of a comprehensive strategy for alcohol and other drugs, they include designated driver initiatives as one prevention measure wity specific focus on youth.

 

 

Feb 18 2008

alPHa has forwarded this and two other resolutions to the Standing Committee on General Government as it considers changes to Ontario's traffic safety legislation under Bill 126, Road Safety Act 2008. Please clike here to read

 

A06-2, All Terrain Vehicle Safety 

alPHa urges the Government of Ontario to strike a multi-stakeholder panel to develop a comprehensive, evidence-based approach to promote ATV safety and prevent related injuries, especially in children

 

 

November 24 2010

alPHa has written a letter to Dr. Helena Jaczek supporting her Resolution to appoint a Select Committee to Study the Use of Non-Automobile Modes of Transportation on Highways and Private Properties in Ontario. Please click here to read.

September 2 2009

The Ontario Medical Association has called on the provincial government to strengthen Ontario legislation concerning ATVs, including banning anyone under the age of 14 from operating them. Please click here for the full news release.

November 23 2006

alPHa has received correspondence from the Director of the Province’s Projects and Change Management Branch, indicating that there is a multi-stakeholder ATV group in plae that is reviewing legislation and policies related to the Off Road Vehicles Act. Please click here to read the letter
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September 19, 2006
Letter sent by alPHa to the Minister of Transportation introducing resolutions A06-1 and A06-2.
Please click here to read

 

A05-13, Window Saftey Devices 

alPHa urges the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing to amend the building code to require the installation of window safety devices in multiple-dwellings such that every window that does not lead to a balcony, is located two metres or more above the finished grade of land upon which it faces, and is not otherwise equipped to prevent falls shall be equipped with a safety device to prevent an opening in any part of the window greater than 100 millimetres

 

 

February 15, 2006
Letter written to Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, copied to the CMOH, Minister of Health and Long Term Care, Minister of Health Promotion and the Premier introducing the Resolution.
Please click here to read.

 

CLOSED RESOLUTIONS

 

 

REASON FOR CLOSURE

 

A06-1, Highway Traffic Act 

alPHa urges the Minister of Transport to amend the Highway Traffic Act to require that the number of passengers transported by a motor vehicle be limited to the number of available seatbelts 

 

 

November 2, 2006
Bill 148 has received Royal Assent and is passed into law.

 

A08-8 - Ensuring the Effectiveness of Graduated Licensing as an Injury Prevention Strategy:

THAT the Association of Local Public Health Agencies recommend to the provincial government that any changes to the graduated licensing program be accompanied by enhanced education and enforcement

 

May 1 2009

Bill 126, the Road Safety Act is passed into law, making several amendments to the Highway Traffic Act that are aimed at novice drivers.

November 18 2008

Minister of Transportation James Bradley has introduced Bill 126, the Road Safety Act, which will make several amendments to the Highway Traffic Act, including "tougher penalties for novice drivers that increase with each violation of graduated licensing restrictions". It also imposes a longer learning period that will increase the minimum learning time required for full licensing from 20 to 30 months. The Government Press Release gives a handy summary of these and the other amendments.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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