Safe Communities Queensland

Welcome to Safe Communities Queensland

Welcome to Safe Communities Queensland Inc.

Safe Communities Queensland Inc. (SCQ) was incorporated in 2010 with the objective of creating a sustainable, independent support platform where organisations and individuals who have a shared interest can come together and collaborate to promote a coordinated and evidence based approach to injury prevention and community safety throughout Queensland.

Working in partnership with the Queensland Injury Surveillance Unit, other relevant organisations and local communities to identify emerging trends and issues, SCQ aims to support local communities throughout Queensland addressing community safety issues by providing injury prevention and community safety practitioners with a reliable source of information, advice, guidance and referral.

We hope that you will find the information and links on this site beneficial and we welcome your assistance in partnering with us to support Queensland to become the safest place to live, work, travel and play one community at a time.

Shane O'Brien
Chair, Safe Communities Queensland Inc.

Fast Facts

Drivers who are engaged in a mobile phone conversation are four times as likely to crash than other drivers. Even the use of hands-free phone is more dangerous than driving under the influence of alcohol.

40% of the vehicles involved in low speed run-over deaths of toddlers are 4WDs

Store medicines and poisons out of reach and out of sight of children - in a high, locked or child resistant cupboard is best.

Low-speed run-over is the third most frequent cause of injury death for toddlers (1-4 years) in Queensland

Discarded cigarettes, lighters and matches are the most common causes of fatal fires in Queensland homes.

Falls are the most common cause of school injuries and result in the most severe injuries. 30% of adult home injuries resulted from falls which were more common in older people particularly women.

Over fifty Queensland children aged less than five asphyxiated in the period 1994-2000 and many would have been prevented by safe sleeping practice.

Tractors are the deadliest piece of equipment on farms. In Queensland, 28 people died between 1990 and 2000 because a tractor rolled over or back flipped.

In Queensland 157 children under five have drowned since 1992. Almost half of these deaths occurred in domestic pools.

80% of dog bites involving children occur at home.

When riding a bicycle in Queensland you must at all times wear an approved, correctly fitted and fastened bike helmet.

ATVs are now the number one cause of injury death on Australian farms.

In all fatal crashes, a significantly higher proportion of 4WD vehicles rolled over compared with passenger cars (35 per cent and 13 per cent respectively).

Falls from bunk beds comprise almost all furniture related high fall injuries amongst children

Keep the telephone number for the Poisons Information Centre (13 11 26) handy

Young children should never be left with a dog unsupervised.

Store medicines and poisons out of reach and out of sight of children - in a high, locked or child resistant cupboard is best.

Playground equipment height less than 2 metres and appropriate under surfacing can reduce injury risk

Twenty-five toddlers drowned in the bath in Queensland during the last 10 years often because they were left alone in the bath or supervised by a slightly older sibling.

Nearly 60% of baby walker injuries involved steps or stairs

Two thirds of low-speed run-over deaths occurred at the victim?s home and the driver was most frequently a relative or family friend

Injuries from playground equipment occurred most often at home (47%) followed by at school (21%), and public parks (17%)

Discarded cigarettes, lighters and matches are the most common causes of fatal fires in Queensland homes.