The Final announcement is now online!

Date: June 25-27 2006

Conference objectives
The main conference objectives are:

• make the injury issue visible on the public health and consumer protection agenda, and in related policy domains in Europe;
• to profile the impact of injuries on society and the huge benefits attainable by its reduction;
• highlight evidence of good practices and successful safety promotion programmes that result in reducing the burden of injury;
• increase the involvement of relevant stakeholders (government, civil society, private sector and academia);
• empower public health and consumer safety professionals to mainstream injury prevention and safety promotion to relevant policy domains and to provide leadership to national programmes for injury prevention and safety promotion;
• and to reinforce European networks for safety promotion and assist all Member States in establishing national policies and structures for injury prevention.

• Senior policy makers in government, public (health/safety) institutes and non-governmental organisations (interest groups representing exposed risk groups or victims);
• Regulators, enforcers, standardisers, designers, product and business compliance experts;
• Private sector representatives, business, health professionals, consumer protection officers, injury prevention experts, safety promotion practitioners, and researchers; and
• Representatives of agencies and representative bodies at European level that have a vested interest in safety promotion such as consumer safety, road safety and safety at work.