Shinan District ISC Web Information Community name: Shinan District communities in Qingdao Country: People’s Republic of China Number of inhabitants in the community: 548,604 Safe Community Programme started year: June 2005 International Safe Communities Network Membership: Designation year： Name of the Safe Community Support Centre: Authenticated by: Name of Certifier : Name of Co-certifier: For further information contact: Name: Guan Yan Institution:: Shinan District Administration of Work Safety of Qingdao Address: No.286 Ningxia Road, Qingdao, Shandong Zip code: 266071 Municipality/ City: Qingdao City, Shandong Province Country: People’s Republic of China Tel: +86（0）532 88729981 Fax: +86（0）532 88729623 E-mail:[email protected] Community website: http://www.qdsn.gov.cn 1 The programme covers the following safety promotion activities: For the age group Children 0-14 years: Safety education * Mock classes on road traffic * Scene play to show "how to react to strangers.” tudents and children are organized to visit firefighting museums, participate in fire escape drills, make firefighting apparatus toys and watch adult firefighting drills, and the art exhibition themed on “Safety in My Heart” is launched. Improving safe facilities rotective measures are adopted in corner of walls at indoor playground and furniture; non-slip treatment is made at dining rooms, bathrooms and staircases; protective measures are adopted at door edges; safe and environmentally-friendly desks and chairs for children are customized; students are encouraged to go up or down stairs on different sides; small foot-shaped signs are placed to guide children. * Renovation of outdoor sports equipment and sports fields, paving of plastic runways, and enveloping basketball stands and sports stands with sponge materials. Improving order around school * Clearance of mobile vendors. * One police man, one traffic police man, one urban management staff, and two campus security personnel responsible for campus security. * Vehicles other than dedicated school buses will be banned from traveling and parking for one hour before and after classes. Bonding home and kindergarten Establishing the interaction websites between home and kindergarten so that parents can know about hardware facilities of kindergartens, teaching activities and child behaviors online in a timely manner and participate in kindergarten management and supervision. “Come Here after School” Take care of children, free of charge, for migrant workers and families in the communities with no one to take care of their children, and provide bilingual education suitable for the demands of children at different ages. All of the tutors are volunteers with special skills. Youth 15-24 years: "You @ I Youngsters Health Service Center” "You @ I Youngsters Health Service Center” was registered with Qingdao Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau in March, 2010. Its predecessor is “You @ I Youngsters Health Service Center” established with the support of 2 Marie Stopes International, which is the first health service center in China publicizing the integration of educational and medical service projects with youngsters as the target group. Programs such as Youth Health Plan of Being Responsible for Love, Intervening AIDS of Youngsters Working in Restaurants and Entertainment Venues and Join Hands with the Old and Make Appointments with the Young have been launched. “Red, yellow and green” education for youngsters Working personnel of Residents Committee of the community, teachers, psychologists and doctors have worked together to provide psychological counseling and psychological rectification services for teenagers with psychological problems in the forms of psychological consultation or face-to-face exchanges, to allow teenagers to feel the warmth of the community family. Adults 25-64 years: "Home of New Citizens” * Little Chen Hotline This is China’s first rights protection hotline to provide free legal services to young migrant workers in the city. It provides new citizens with free legal consultation and protects their legal rights by legal means throughout the year. * Employment Bus The Home of New Citizens has cooperated with 12 registered large-sized enterprises, and the community arranges new citizens to take buses for free to visit various factories, asking information about the welfare and employment prospect. * New Citizens’ Library The New Citizens’ Library provides more than 8,000 books and magazines of all kinds to new citizens for reading as a “mobile library”. * Home The Home of New Citizens has run a semimonthly newspaper Home, with four columns each issue, covering news, laws, daily life and inner voice. The positions of editor, correspondent, and writer are all held by new citizens, and the contents of the articles are about new citizens’ life, safety, education and work. The copies of each issue will be delivered to new citizens by volunteers. Elderly 65+ years: Plan to improve elders’ balance function Exercise with a walking stick, Taiji softball, Taiji sword, Taiji boxing and diabolo, etc. Basis: Study of traditional Chinese medicine shows that the five sports, namely, exercise with a walking stick, Taiji softball, Taiji sword, Taiji boxing and diabolo, are helpful for improving the balancing function of the elderly.By doing these five exercises, the elders will have their body parts such as head, back, waist and legs exercised, improve the cardiopulmonary function. And by coordinating the movements of hands, feet and the head, it will help prevent senile dementia and lose weight. 3 Barrier-free family Since June 2008, Shinan District has funded the installation of handrail in the bathrooms of 382 poverty-stricken elderly households and suggested elderly households, if it’s permitted financially, install by themselves; as to families whose bathroom is not fit for handrail installation, they are recommended to make use of washing machines and walking sticks, etc. to reduce the risk of slippery of the elderly. Legal services for safeguarding the rights of the elderly The Legal Service Center for the Elderly is set up and the rights safeguarding hotline is launched to provide legal aid for the elderly by respecting the principle of prioritizing the elderly-involving cases. Daytime care for the elderly 65 daytime care centers for the elderly have been set up in the district, offering comprehensive daytime care services including noon break, entertainment, fitness and health care for free. Ten elderly dining rooms are set up in the district, providing a lunch of two meat dishes, one vegetable dish and one kind of soup per day. Health training for the elderly Courses on safety, health, regimen and psychology are provided through community classes of the University for the Elderly, to improve the ability of the elderly in health reservation. Health records and health care at home Since 2010, citizens aged above 65 in the community have been entitled to free medical examination and health records. Health records and the “health care at home” program have been established for sick senior citizens. Services including health education, screening and monitoring of chronic diseases of senior citizens have been offered to reduce or postpone the occurrence and development of geriatric diseases. Love Doorbells Free installation of doorbells and prompt doorbells. Apartments for the elderly Since 2010, the district government has invested over RMB200 million to fulfill the renovation of two apartment buildings for the elderly, namely, Lewanjia Apartment for the Elderly in Zhanshan and another on Jintan Road. By 2015, the apartment building on Rudong Road will be put into use and there will be a total of 14 apartment buildings in the city. Natural disasters Emergency plans for natural disasters According to the potential danger in the district, feasible emergency plans at different tiers are established and a complete plan system has been put into effect to check, replenish and replace emergency facilities and apparatus. Team building for disaster prevention and relief Ten social emergency response teams for disaster prevention and reduction are formed with the neighborhood as the unit, with at least two trainings and rehearsals on 4 first aid and emergency response per year. Popularization of knowledge on disaster prevention and reduction Since 2011, the sub-districts have regularly launched publicity activities on emergency response and organized trainings on primary on-site first aid and drills on fire fighting and evacuation. Seismic resistance inspection The seismic resistance inspection has been conducted on all buildings (and structures) in the jurisdiction, renovation has been launched accordingly and the construction of emergency facilities for fire prevention has been completed in five mountains/forests. Disaster prevention and aid 127 make-shift shelters and 133 warehouses for the storage of emergency materials are built and a dedicated department is responsible for the storage, dispatch and supply of them. Safe Home “Pocket Books” program Pocket books containing 10 tips for safe use of electricity and gas and fire prevention, 10 tips for fire fighting and another 10 tips for emergency evacuation are printed out and distributed to residential households and units in the jurisdiction. Safety-related Knowledge Lecture The Safety-related Knowledge Lecture is held regularly. ◆ “Delivering Safety” program Setting up a safety experience room, equipping each building or yard with large-sized hydrant cabinets, furnishing