Xiaoguwei Sub-district ISC Web Information

Name of the Community: Xiaoguwei Community

Country:

Number of inhabitants in the community: 170,000 teachers and students, 6,000 residents from 1,800 households and 13,000 migrant people.

Safe Community Programme started year: November 2012

International Safe Communities Network Membership:

Designation year:

Name of the Safe Community Support Centre: China Occupational Safety and Health Association

Name of Certifier: Guldbrand Skjönberg

Name of Co-certifier:

Info address on www for the Programme: For further information contact:

Name: LI Haining

Institution: Xiaoguwei Sub-district Office

Address: No. 28, Zhongxindajie North, ,

Zip code: 510006

Municipality/ City: Guangzhou,

Country: China

Phone (country code included): 020-39339105

Fax: 020-39339136

E-mail: [email protected]

Info address on www for the institution (or community as a whole):

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The programme covers the following safety promotion activities:

For the age group

Children 0-14 years:

School safety: Xiaoguwei community actively raises funds to regularly maintain campus facilities, guaranteeing safety management of primary schools; strictly requires school hire qualified staff, who are both physically and mentally healthy; prohibits using toxic and harmful materials to produce toys and pays attention to the safety of all kinds of environment; strengthens medicine-taking management in school and monitors students to take medicine according to parents’ requirements, so pupils can take medicine timely and accurately with no wrong medicine taken or missed; enhances school bus safety management, strictly implements relevant traffic regulations and campus safety codes to ensure the safety of teachers and students. Xiaoguwei community sets up class safety responsibility system to better manage class safety work in daily activities, during meals and in hygiene area. Pupil’s psychological health education: to solve problems occurred in students’ study and growth, psychological classes are given regularly. A small but complete consultation room is set up and opens three days a week.

4:30 class and Sunshine Campaign for children of rural migrant workers.

Traffic safety programs for students in primary and middle school: traffic police go into schools to publicize traffic safety knowledge; schools set up student traffic teams, which guide students to cross streets during peak period.

Youth service programs in Xiaoguwei Integrated Family Services Centre: case consultations, tutoring, board role-playing games, interest groups, resilience training, etc.

Evidence-based strategies: 4:30 class and traffic safety programs for students in primary and middle school.

Youth 15-24 years:

Food safety programs: Xiaoguwei community strengthens training and requires university canteen managers to enhance daily self-check and self-modification; cooperates with relevant functional departments to intensify routine inspections of all collective canteens; urges canteens to be equipped with health facilities according to their own situation and relevant provisions; establishes a complaint system, releases food safety complaints telephone number and accepts students’ complaints on food safety in canteens.

Traffic: Xiaoguwei community cooperates with traffic police to remind students, through lectures, publicity and other ways, of riding bike safely, wearing helmet, and obeying traffic rules on campus; sets up speed humps at campus crossings to reduce car speed; establishes school vehicle registration system to strengthen management; arranges university security guards and traffic volunteers to direct traffic order during peak period.

Psychological health promotion programs: with the help of Psychology Consultation Center of South China Normal University, Xiaoguwei community sets up an advanced psychological health record system for undergraduates and postgraduates; sets up a four-level psychological health protection net consisted of university, faculty, grade and dormitory; makes full use of website and university publicity board to publicize psychological health knowledge; establishes counselors reporting students’ psychological crisis system.

Sports safety promotion programs: Xiaoguwei community strengthens monitoring of sports equipment and scientifically plans, manages and uses stadiums and equipment; regularly trains facility management staff; enhances publicity of sports injury prevention; establishes PE class safety system.

Safety promotion programs for university automatic fire control facilities: Xiaoguwei community increases communication with different departments, regularly convenes meetings, clarifies responsibilities, improves university firefighting management, sets up regular maintenance system of automatic fire control facilities and timely repairs malfunctioned equipment. University police room programs: a police room is set up in every university with police stationed; contacts and other information of the police are released, so students and teachers can turn for help; the police keep in close contact with university security divisions to timely know university security conditions and carry out publicity of anti-fraud and anti-pyramid selling.

Student dormitory safety promotion programs: Xiaoguwei community strengthens electricity and fire safety education for students; improves dormitory safety management system and assigns exact person to be responsible for dormitory management; gives full play to Students’ Union and university security divisions to irregularly check dormitory safety; if any dangerous electric products are discovered, university security divisions will take them away.

Evidence-based strategies: psychological health promotion programs and sports safety promotion programs.

Adults 25-64 years:

Skill training and psychological counseling programs for the disabled: Xiaoguwei community increases publicity and supervision to make the public correctly understand and treat the disabled who can in turn make a contribution to the society; invites experts from Labor Bureau to carry out occupational training and guidance for the disabled; provides psychological counseling for the disabled through occupation therapy station; organizes disabled to take part in sports activities; organizes the disabled to get occupational and productive skill training and participate in production.

Firefighting safety programs: Xiaoguwei community inspects and registers all public fire hydrants and encourages public to report destruction behavior of public firefighting facilities; carries out several fire fighting lectures and drills every year; strengthens fire fighting safety inspections of rental houses and “three small venues”; conducts firefighting safety promotion programs in public places full of crowds, and high-rise and underground building.

Traffic safety promotion programs: Xiaoguwei community initiates traffic violation snapshot system, upgrades and standardizes transport facilities, upgrades road greenbelts, conducts real-time road traffic monitoring, rectifies “five types of cars” regularly, and carries out activities of traffic safety knowledge going into campuses, villages and companies.

Safety promotion programs in construction sites: Xiaoguwei community intensifies inspection and supervision of construction sites and ensures the function of special facilities by recording and monitoring their use; through inspection, urges construction sites to educate all workers on safety knowledge; provides necessary safety protection products and appliances, including safety helmet and safety belt, and ensures that workers can use them properly in operation; improves publicity to increase workers’ safety awareness, and encourages them to report illegal operations and regulations to protect their legitimate rights and interests; implements green card system; carries out publicity activities and knowledge competitions on production safety. Evidence-based strategies: traffic safety promotion programs and safety promotion programs in construction sites

Elderly 65+ years:

Programs of medical volunteers offering free diagnosis, treatment and publicity: Xiaoguwei community regularly organizes volunteers from medical colleges to publicize health care knowledge in community, provide on-site free diagnosis, carry out free treatment with traditional Chinese medicine, conduct common disease survey among residents, prevent certain diseases, and recommend diet to treat common diseases seen in autumn and winter to improve residents’ health level. Family Service Center programs targeting at senior citizens: the target are mainly senior citizens at the age of or over 60 years old in community. Xiaoguwei community provides home assistance for the aged, by strengthening the health network of the aged and offering services like entertainment, education, case counseling, etc.

Evidence-based strategies: Family Service Center programs targeting at senior citizens

Natural Disaster: forest fire prevention programs; automatic and lightning-free firefighting control system

Violence prevention: Xiaoguwei Family Service Center programs targeting at senior citizens and youth

Evidence-based strategies: Xiaoguwei Family Service Center programs targeting at senior citizens

Suicide prevention: psychological health education for pupils, psychological health promotion programs for university students and psychological counseling programs for the disabled

Evidence-based strategies: psychological health promotion programs for university students

Programs aiming at “High risk-groups”

The High risk-groups are: university students who often do sports and ride bicycle.

Campus sports safety promotion programs: Xiaoguwei community carries out sports safety education for students who often take sports; rectifies sports venues; sets up injury registration and report system; formulates PE class safety promotion system.

Promotion programs to rectify biking violation: Xiaoguwei community transfers and adjusts road to meet students’ biking needs; sets up traffic volunteer center and service team to direct traffic at crossings between teaching and living areas during peak period; formulates parking regulations; conducts traffic control.

Surveillance of injuries: Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine ( Town) and university clinics

Numbers per year: 26,800 in 2009; 24,239 in 2010; 22,756 in 2011; 19,436 in 2012; 11,739 in 2013.

Population base: 50,000 people

Started year: 2009

Publications:

Produced Information material: Work Report of Building an International Safe Community, On-spot Evaluation and Review Book of Building Xiaoguwei into an International Safe Community, Album Safe University Town, Happy Xiaoguwei Community.

Staff

Zhu Ruiwu, Secretary of Party Working Committee of Xiaoguwei Sub-district Office

Number: 290 people

Permanent: 90 people

Temporary: 200 people

Organization: CUI Ying is head of leading group (Executive Deputy Director of Guangzhou University Town Urban Managerial Committee, Secretary of Party Working Committee in Xiaoguwei Sub-district Office); ZHU Ruiwu (Deputy Director of Guangzhou University Town Urban Managerial Committee, Director of Xiaoguwei Sub-district Office) and ZHAO Ming (Deputy director of Xiaoguwei Sub-district Office) are deputy head. Members of the leading group include 47 supervisors from: Party Working committee in Xiaoguwei Sub-district Office, Urban Management Squadron, Colleges Liaison Office, Urban Construction Center, Safety Office, Labor Protection Center, Urban Management Office, Economic Management Section, Office for Letters and Calls, Urban Management Section, Family Planning Office, Center of Migrant Worker and Rental Houses, Industrial and Commercial Agency, Youth League Work Committee, Women’s Work Committee, Culture and Sports Center, Legal Service Office, Emergency Office, Firefighting Squadron, Traffic Administration Institute, Education Guidance Center, Branch of Health Inspection Institute, No.3 Institute of Environmental Protection, Marine Office of Inner Harbor, Institute of Justice, Traffic Police Squadron, ten universities, four villages and student organizations and key enterprises.

General public health/health promotion group: Hygiene and health promotion team regularly holds food safety conferences, rectifies restaurants without certifications, disinfects “four pests” (rats, bedbugs, flies and mosquitoes) and organizes publicity on food safety.

International commitments:

Organised study visits for the following visiting communities:

（1） In April 2009, four members of Xiaoguwei Promotion Committee of Safe Community went to Dalian to learn experience in building an International Safe Community.

（2） In June 2009, two members of Xiaoguwei Promotion Committee of Safe Community went to Jinan, Shandong to learn experience in building an International Safe Community.

（3） In April 2010, one member of Xiaoguwei Promotion Committee of Safe Community went to Shenzhen to learn experience in building an International Safe Community. （4） In June 2010, two members of Xiaoguwei Promotion Committee of Safe Community went to Qingdao, Shandong to learn experience in building an International Safe Community.

（5） In November 2011, one member of Xiaoguwei Promotion Committee of Safe Community went to Beijing to learn experience in building an International Safe Community.

（6） In June 2012, four members of Xiaoguwei Promotion Committee of Safe Community went to Xiangmihu Sub-district Office, Futian District, Shenzhen to learn experience in building an International Safe Community.

（7） In April 2012, seven members of Xiaoguwei Promotion Committee of Safe Community went to Xiagang Sub-district Office, Luogang District, Guangzhou to learn experience in building an International Safe Community.

（8） In June 2013, two members of Xiaoguwei Promotion Committee of Safe Community went to Zhuhailu Sub-district Office, Nanshan District, Qingdao, Shandong, to learn experience in building an International Safe Community.

Participation in Safe Community conferences

（1） In October 2009, one member of Xiaoguwei Promotion Committee of Safe Community took part in the Designation Ceremony to confirm Sai Kung community as a safe and healthy community in 5th Hong Kong Safe and Healthy Community Network Annual Conference and learned experience in building an International Safe Community.

（2） From 2009—2011, all members of Xiaoguwei Promotion Committee of Safe Community, leaders of all programs and liaisons were trained five times on how to build a safe community.

Hosting Safe Community Conferences:

（1） In February 2012, Safety Supervision Bureau and Nanhuaxi community in came to Xiaoguwei community to exchange experience in building a national safe community.

（2） In May 2012, leaders of Work Safety Supervision Bureau, Wushan community, Liede community and Tianyuan community in Tianhe District came to Xiaoguwei community to exchange experience in building a national safe community. （3） In July 2013, Bureau of Work Safety of Guangdong Province came to Xiaoguwei community to guide the work of building Xiaoguwei into an international safe community.

（4） In December 2013, National Safe Community Promotion Center and Bureau of Work Safety of Guangdong Province came to Xiaoguwei community to guide the work of building Xiaoguwei into an international safe community.

（5） In May 2014, leaders from Safety Supervision Bureau of Panyu District investigated Xiaoguwei’s work of building an international safe community.

Hosting ”Traveling Seminars”

（1） In February 2012, Safety Supervision Bureau and Nanhuaxi community in Haizhu District came to Xiaoguwei community to exchange experience in building a national safe community.

（2） In May 2012, leaders of Work Safety Supervision Bureau, Wushan community, Liede community and Tianyuan community in Tianhe District came to Xiaoguwei community to exchange experience in building a national safe community.

（3） In July 2013, Bureau of Work Safety of Guangdong Province came to Xiaoguwei community to guide the work of building Xiaoguwei into an international safe community.

（4） In December 2013, National Safe Community Promotion Center and Bureau of Work Safety of Guangdong Province came to Xiaoguwei community to guide the work of building Xiaoguwei into an international safe community.

（5） In May 2014, leaders from Safety Supervision Bureau of Panyu District investigated Xiaoguwei’s work of building an international safe community.