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Modern health-care procedures help you to take your patients better and more safely, but
these procedures often involve hazardous substances that are potential risk to you unless
you know how to prevent exposure.
The health-care environment is a 24-hour-a-day business, where routine tasks alternate
with emergencies. The potential for accidents is everywhere, but if you have a good atti-
tude and think safety first, you can prevent accidents from occurring. Certainly this program
cannot cover all possible potential hazards...
Unit 9. Global Plan - 5 pillars for the Decade of Action for
Road Safety
Etienne Krug: We have a clear a plan for the decade. And it is really a plan that emphasizes
working in countries, with countries to strengthen road safety. We’ll work on five different
pillars. We’ll work on the management of road safety making sure there is a lead agency,
there is a data collection system, we will work on improving infrastructures, the roads,
improving vehicle safety, changing people’s behaviour to make sure they don’t drink and
drive, they put their seatbelts, they don’t speed and finally improve the trauma care, the
post-crash response. It is a problem that can be tackled. We have cost-effective solutions.
Ban Ki-moon: This U.N. decade of action for road safety provides good policies. We have
good tools. We have also good knowledge. We have to build safer roads, and safer vehi-
cles. Therefore, we need to have a concerted effort. If we live by example, we can save
millions and millions of lives.
Michael Bloomberg: You know the “make roads safe” campaign was really the impetus
to get going the U.N. decade of action for road safety, and if in this decade we can focus
on a few simple things… because there are solutions and they are measurable and imple-
mentable.
Fred Wegman: I’m very much in favour of a system approach, and design the system in
such a way that the risk of serious injuries or of fatalities is very very low indeed. How to
diminish kinetic energy in crashes and to reduce speed when you have a potential crash
between a car and a, and a pedestrian so the system approach is applicable all over the
world, not something for developed countries. You can apply everywhere…
Lord Robertson: It’s very important that we translate the awareness that we have now
created in this issue into some real and genuine action that involves every section of the
community.
So we are hoping that this will bring in the private sector, it will bring in the corporate sec-
tor, it will bring in philanthropic organizations who now know that there is an epidemy that
it’s the biggest single killer of young people in the world today; and that there are ways on
which it can be prevented, and that there are remedies: better roads, seatbelts, crash-hel-
mets and action against speeding and against drinking. These are all areas in which we can
reduce this massive toll of misery and death that road crashes produce.