By Zhang Wencheng
It is learned from Hongkou Administration of Work Safety that Liangcheng, Quyang and North Sichuan Road Sub-districts were recognized as “National Safe Community” in December; Ouyang and Jiangwan District passed international safe community filed certification and would be recognized by WHO Safe Community Center and become “International Safe Community”.
“The safe community construction is based on the theme ‘Let Everyone Enjoy Safety and Health’ and exceeded our expectation for the general target of ‘12th 5-year plan’. Now, 8 sub-districts in Hongkou have become ‘Shanghai Safe Community’ and 5 of them even evolved into national and international level,” introduced Zhang Bin, Director of Hongkou Administration of Work Safety. It is learned that the safe community construction was launched in 2011 and 123 safe projects have been developed, including work safety, transportation safety, fire control, residence safety and old people safety, and they reached obvious effects.
Insist on community diagnosis to improve safe community service
During the construction of safe community, Ouyang Sub-district gradually developed a work style of “government guidance, social participation, cross-boundary cooperation, multi-party coordination, joint construction and sustainable development”. According to Cai Wei, Director of Ouyang Sub-district, “community diagnosis is the most important fundamental work. It is the evidence for safety promotion plan and project as well as a major reference to KPI during the construction.” There are 4 major aspects in Ouyang Sub-district’s community diagnosis. First, observation. 1,300 permanent households were selected from 18 residential committees and Hongkou Disease Control and Prevention Center offered guidance to conduct in-house investigation to determine harm baseline; second, information collection. They set up monitoring sites in community medical departments, administration of work safety and public security departments, residential committees, schools and key enterprises to develop medical monitoring sites, functional department monitoring sites and supporting monitoring site so as to develop accidents and harm monitoring network; third, community survey. Conduct survey to subjects in the community with different levels, ages, gender and environments to learn the safe work status and safety demands of various kinds; fourth, evaluation. Experts were invited to conduct field investigation and identify risk source to places and personnel involved in safety intervene to do risk evaluation.
In addition, the ratio between the actual number of old people and the hukou of old people exceeds 30%, ranking No.1 in Hongkou. To ensure long-term effect of safe community, the subjects of old people safe promotion plan was no longer limited to senior old people and single old people. Since the 2nd half of this year, Ouyang community launched a “3 color” management safety project to the old people, and old people aged above 65 whose children could not extend regular care were included in this project. “3 color” management would be carried out to different subjects, which means that key group (red management) would be visited everyday, sub-key group (yellow management) would be visited twice a week and general group (green management) once a week.
Establish safety school, encourage residents to join and learn
Jiangwan Town Sub-district took the opportunity of building safe community and built “Community Safety School” in 2013 to reduce unsystematic education through community education platform. According to statistics, the community safety school already arranged over 60 lectures and trainings, which benefited more than 10,000 residents in the area. This year, community school also adopted such measures as dividing areas to gather surrounding residential communities to have collective lectures and choosing proper sites for distant residential communities, sending questionnaires to residents and providing lectures according to demands to further improved their ways of delivering lectures.
According to responsible person of Jiangwan Town Sub-district, kids safety is one of the key aspects in the building of safe community. From 2012, the sub-district already started to cooperate with “Safe Kids Worldwide” to carry out safety intervene projects to kids from 0-3 years old and kids in kindergarten, primary school and middle school; they would also introduce kids safety precaution concept, measures and ample practice experiences from overseas to popularize in 22 schools in its jurisdiction. These would include first aid training for parents of 0-3 year-old kids, establishment of first aid training places in 0-3 year-old baby birth sample sites and courses for parents and kindergarten teachers on preventing fall from height, toxication, suffocation and scald. Now, kids safety projects have covered all sub-district’s kindergartens through safety courses and safety intervene projects and the cover rate in primary and middle schools also reached 80%.
It is learned that the safe community building in Hongkou would be improved continuously and the cover rate of various safety intervene projects would also be expanded to benefit more residents. Zhang Bin said that the foundation of our safe community project is “how to let community residents to live a safer and healthier life”. While enhancing the infrastructure, the sub-district also hoped that residents could join in to take care of themselves and help others, enhancing safety awareness and increasing their happy index.