Vision

A safe New Zealand, becoming injury free

This vision is ambitious and challenging. It will act as a motivating force in both stimulating and guiding injury prevention efforts in New Zealand.

As we move toward this vision we will see:

• Injury prevention being integrated into everyday life across all settings (e.g. workplaces, farms, public places, marae, schools, homes, roads, and sport and recreational environments).
• People actively managing the risk of injury while living active and challenging lives.
• More people living free of injury and continuing to participate in work, play, sport and leisure activities.
• Less distress to families and whanau.
• Less disruption to business operations due to injury.
• A dramatic reduction in national statistics for fatal and non-fatal injuries.

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Goals

• achieve a positive safety culture; and
• create safe environments.

These terms are defined as:

• A positive safety culture is:
  - a shared set of beliefs, attitudes, values and ways of behaving that support the prevention of injury.
• Safe environments are:
  - social and physical surroundings or conditions that support the prevention of injury.

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Objectives for the Strategy

	Raise awareness and commitment to injury prevention more >
	Strengthen injury prevention capacity and capability more >
	Design and develop safe environments, systems and products more >
	Maintain and enhance the legislative and policy framework supporting injury prevention more >
	Integrate injury prevention activity through collaboration and co-ordination more >
	Advance injury prevention knowledge and information more >
	Develop and implement effective injury prevention interventions more >
	Ensure appropriate resource levels for injury prevention more >
	Develop, implement and monitor national injury prevention strategies for priority areas more >
	Foster leadership in injury prevention more >

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