All of us here at the Community Against Preventable Injuries would like to wish you an awesome Canada Day!
Have lots of fun and remember to stay safe in whatever you do. National holidays are one of the biggest times of preventable injury as everyone relaxes and enjoys the festivities while unfortunately checking their common sense at the door. Therefore, in order to help you better enjoy Canada Day this year, we’ve prepared the ABC’s of Safety:
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In this week’s Province series on preventable injuries, Cassidy focuses on the sudden danger of fire and the lasting impact of burns:
By Cassidy Olivier, Staff Reporter
He was just six years old and doing what he’d seen his dad do the day before. But when Jody Kopec’s nephew added gasoline to the fire pit that day 14 years ago, he set in motion a series of events
that would affect the lives of those around him forever. It had started out innocently enough. It was July and Kopec, a Fintry, B.C. resident, had a full house of out-of-town visitors including her brother from Calgary, his two young boys, and her friend from Burns Lake who had brought along her four boys. Given Kopec’s three children were, at the time, all under 10-years old, there was plenty of action and excitement to complement the fine weather. Until disaster struck.
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Richard Keating posted a response to the The Province article, A lifetime of bike safety starts with mom and dad:
The trouble with bike helmets is that the figures don’t show that they work – helmet laws have stopped a lot of people cycling and have done nothing for head injury rates, see Robinson DL. No clear evidence from countries that have enforced the wearing of helmets (Helment Enforcement info). It appears that helmets break easily, but don’t absorb the impact, see the engineers quoted at Wikipedia – Bicycle helmet. A broken helmet has simply failed, and the widespread anecdotes on the theme of “a helmet saved my life” seem to owe more to wishful thinking than to science. As for “a car ran over my head”, see the pro-helmet site www.helmets.org/smush.htm; if a car goes over your head, I’m sorry to say you won’t be sitting up and praising your helmet. The only known connection is that helmets have strangled a few young children who were wearing helmets while playing off their bicycles.
I no longer wear a helmet and haven’t pressed them on my children.
We disagree, Richard:
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