Safety

Foto - G.Kajons "Safety – freedom from danger, a property of a device or process that limits the risk of accident below some specified acceptable level" (The Online Ethics Centre Glossary).

"Safety – freedom from those conditions that can cause death, injury, illness, or damage or loss of equipment or property, or damage to the environment" (Glossary of Vulnerability Testing Terminology, University of Oulu).

Work group

There is created a work group coordinated by ISEC to develop children safety problems. One of the main goals of the work group activities is to create methodological materials to teach safety curriculum in basic and general secondary education.

Members of work group:

Joint stock Company Latvenergo

Latvian Paediatrics Association

Joint stock Company "Latvijas Gāze"

The Centre for Catastrophe Medicine

State Police of the Republic of Latvia

National Youth Initiative Centre

Road traffic safety directorate

Ministry of Education and Science, Republic of Latvia

Ministry for Children and Family Affairs, Republic of Latvia

Organization "Parents for Riga"

The research on the results of the project “HIV/AIDS life skills education in schools” was carried out by SKDS, the market and social research center in Latvia, from February to March 2005. Upon the request of the Ministry of Education and Science, a survey on safety issues was conducted in parallel to that.