Smiths Falls and District Safe Community Coalition
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Some
new links and info below! (Click
on the underlined link!) |
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Link to Stanley
Tools Safe Community Award
 Rudy
Witlox, Plant Manager of Stanley Tools in
Smiths Falls, Dan Cunningham,
Manager of Environment, Health and Safety for Stanley Tools and Bill
Dickson, Co-Chair of the Smiths Falls and
District Safe Community Coalition are given a demonstration by Safe
Community Coordinator Chris Heffernan,
of the Speed Watch Radar that is used by the SFSCC to show motorists
how fast (or slowly) they are moving, as part of the Safe Community
Road Safety and Railway Crossing awareness programs. |
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Children's Seat
Belt Quiz with Prizes! Grades 4-6
Cdn Association of Road Safety Professionals Quiz
Link |
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SafetySmart
.com has an email newsletter with interesting articles
SafetySmart
Link |
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Canadian
Institute for Health Information CIHI |
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Teacher
award program click
here |
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Parents and youth can now go to the website and download the Parent-Youth
Safe Driving Contract and Rear Window Sign after filling
in a few fields for our statistical purposes. Further, parents and
youth can choose to use both or either of the program components. As
a result of these changes, the program is now not only available
across the US and Canada, but is fully international. Feel free to go
to the website and give it a try. www.ipromiseprogram.com
Our (WHO) goal with respect to teen driver safety is to
reduce
the risk of teen driver car crashes, injuries and deaths. |
When Sean Kells was killed in a
work related accident, just days after he started, Mr. Paul Kells
decided that health and safety especially in the workplace should be
a top priority for all people.
The 
Safe
Communities Foundation
has since become the forum in which this message
would be communicated. This non-profit organization, that is funded
by corporate sponsors, is in place to help communities form
committees that establish their own health and safety organization.
The main purpose is to promote a safe environment, be it at work, at
home or at play.
The Town of
Smiths Falls staff was fundamental in instigating the formation of
this committee in April of 1996. There are representatives from
industry, small business, service clubs, municipal officials, police,
ambulance and fire services, hospital, health unit, schools and
various safety organizations.
On Monday July 15, 1996 the
Council for the Town of Smiths Falls endorsed this committee with the
following resolution:
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"That this Council support the Safe
Community Project and the establishment of a broad based Committee
which is committed to work with all parts of the community to make
the Town of Smiths Falls a safe and healthy place to live, work and play." |
Officially
launched in September 1997, the committee has a part-time
coordinator who can be reached at the Smiths Falls Town Hall.
Safe Communities Incentive
Program (SCIP)
This program was offered to small
businesses and involves six sessions of about two hours each. Besides
gaining information about safe workplace procedures and WSIB policy,
the participants qualified for a WSIB assessment rebate after the
first year. The program had 24 graduates in 1998, 26 firms
participated in 1999. More than 70 businesses in Smiths Falls and
perth have now completed the program.
November
26, 2002....SCIP
participants from Smiths Falls and Perth share in $106,000 rebate
from WSIB! (2nd largest in Ontario)
1998
graduates shared a $26,063.35 rebate
on October 4th 1999!
Some
of the 1998-99 Grads!
For more information on this
innovative organization please contact:
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(Coordinator)
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Chair:
Bill Dickson |
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Email : coalition |
77
Beckwith St. N. P.O. Box 695 |
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Smiths Falls,
Ontario K7A 4T6 |
(613) 283 - 5869 |
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(613) 283-4124 ex 111 |
Fax : (613) 283 - 4764 |
last update November 14, 2006
