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Project objectives
- This project takes place under the Injury Prevention Programme within the strand 2 "Establishing a rapid response mechanism".
- This response mechanism concerns not only the potential risk products (RAPEX is already an existing system) but more widely the "risk situations". A "risk situation" is a combination of several variables such as: activity, place, product (ex: new use of child scotter on pavement).
The knowledge of these "risk situations" is provided in part by the analysis of the home and leisure accident information system (former ELHASS system) and we have gathered experience on this subject for several years. For the moment, there is no rapid response mechanism producing risk situation results.
- This response mechanism will not generate "official notifications" but will be able to rapidly produce alert information, from an epidemiological and a preventive point of view, at both national and European level.
The first goal of the study is to collect information about the existing networks and potential partners and to analyse the wishes and the needs in this domain.
- A pilot tool will then be built, using a web site which will include: an address book, a forum of questions, a database of "risk situations", a list of preventive actions engaged, a working collaborative space, etc.
- The application will include in the future, competent national authorities, Associations of consumers, and normalisation structures. It will be able to contribute to the achievement of a high level of health and safety protection of the consumers.
1. Topic of project
Establishing a rapid response mechanism
2. Aim/objective of project (brief)
- To compile an inventory of the existing networks and partners and to list any new function that could complement the existing tasks.
- To produce a pilot tool, such as a website for example, including: a list of addresses, a forum for questions, a database of the 'high-risk situations' that have been identified and the actions undertaken, a forum for joint actions, etc.
- To describe a system that will notably make it possible to include the competent national authorities, consumer associations and the organisations responsible for standards.
3. Innovation of project
Reporting of accidents that are “atypical” so that they are followed-through in a satisfactory fashion.
4. Outcomes of project (tools developed)
A test website, the EASI system (European Alert System on Injures) has made it possible to characterise the “atypical cases” that were reported, and to record the steps it was proposed to take following the accidents notified.
5. Key health messages (outcomes)
Most of HLA accidents change little over time, their risk factors are stable, and it is possible to take a long-term approach to their prevention. When 'new' accidents occur, this calls for the introduction of a 'notification and alerting system'.
6. Conclusions and recommendations (policy oriented and other)
Proposals for the routine introduction of EASI. Setting up the SAViC/EASI notificaton and alert system will contribute to protecting people, by clarifying the novelty, frequency and seriousness of the ' atypical ' accidents, or the trends in the circumstances under which they have happened. Using the IDB database to identify the cases to be notified and to validate the cases notified could be particularly useful and would work in tandem with the implementation of EASI.
7. Publications related to the project
Final
report
, May
2005
(1.0
MB)
8. Future policy development
9. General comments
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