The Department of Health funds several organisations to deliver state-wide injury prevention programs.
The Water Safety program, delivered by Royal Life Saving WA, provides education, training and resources to improve safety in and around water:
- Keep Watch aims to raise awareness amongst parents and carers of children under five years of age about toddler drowning prevention and water safety in and around the home, with the key messages of supervision, restricting access to water, water familiarisation and CPR.
- Be A Mermate targets young adults aged 15-24 years, aiming to increase their understanding and skills to prevent drowning, with a particular focus on the risks associated with alcohol and other drug consumption in and around water.
- Make The Right Call aims to raise awareness of key drowning trends, risk factors and prevention strategies and improve swimming, water safety and lifesaving skills amongst adults 45 years and over.
- Royal Life Saving WA produces annual WA Drowning Reports, highlighting key drowning trends in WA and identifying those most at risk.
Kidsafe WA deliver the Child Safety program, which works to increase the knowledge, awareness and skills of parents, children and professionals on the prevention of intentional and unintentional childhood injury:
- Home Safety builds knowledge, awareness and skills to prevent injuries in and around the home. The program focuses on the most common home injury risk factors that contribute to falls, choking and suffocation, burns and scalds, poisons, and energy safety.
- Play and Recreation Safety offers a range of information, resources and tools for parents, carers, school children, community sporting groups and other play and recreation activity providers to reduce injuries during play and recreation, including sporting activities.
- Product Safety focuses on identifying and reducing injury issues associated with unsafe products used by children.
- Kidsafe WA in partnership with the Perth Children’s Hospital Emergency Department Injury Surveillance Unit produce the Kidsafe WA Childhood Injury Bulletins and Reports.
Injury Matters deliver the Falls Prevention program to prevent falls and falls-related injuries. They also provide the Partnership & Sector Development program to support the WA injury prevention sector:
- Stay On Your Feet® provides information and strategies for older adults, their family and friends and health professionals to prevent falls and falls-related injuries.
- Injury Matters produces an annual WA Falls Report, which provides important information about the significant and growing impact of falls on the WA community
- Know Injury provides knowledge, skills and networking opportunities, to support and enable practitioners to deliver evidence-informed injury prevention activities across WA.