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Business partners and their commitment to child safety:
Johnson and Johnson - Europe, Middle East and Africa
Children’s health is a natural area of focus for Johnson and Johnson - Europe, Middle East and Africa with interests in baby-care products and first aid as well as pharmaceuticals and surgical equipment.
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RAM
RAM Consulting is world's leading safety consultancy company. That position reflects the success in ensuring the safety of client’s products and the integrity of their corporate image and brand.
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Consumer Safety Institute
The Consumer Safety Institute (CSI), established in 1983, is an agency with a mission to improve the safety of consumers and cut the toll of home and leisure injuries in the Netherlands.
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The aim is to reduce the large number of serious injuries and the many deaths caused by them. This is done by increasing society’s awareness of the issue, by publicising good practice in injury prevention and by helping citizens and professional groups to create a safer environment for us all.
The Consumer Safety Institute in Amsterdam hosts the secretariat of the European Child Safety Alliance.
The Consumer Safety Institute, Amsterdam
Project partners and their commitment to child safety
European Commission
The mission of the EU “Health and Consumer Protection” is to implement the responsibilities entrusted to it by the Treaty and derived legislation so as to ensure that a high level of human health and consumer protection is attained throughout the EU.
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In accomplishing this task ‘Health and Consumer Protection’ will, within the priorities defined by the Commission, exercise its specific responsibilities in the areas for which it is responsible, i.e. Public Health; Food Safety; Veterinary and Phytosanitary Standards and Controls including Animal Welfare; Scientific Advice; and Consumer Protection. Achieving a high level of human health and consumer protection necessitates the active involvement of other participants. In this connection ‘Health and Consumer Protection’ will co-ordinate and co-operate closely with other services of the Commission, Member States, NGOs and all interested parties.
At the occasion of the launch of the European Child Safety Alliance in Brussels on November 20, 2001, Erik Hansson, Deputy Head of Unit in the Directorate General of the Directorate General Health and Consumer Protection of the European Commission made the following statement:
‘All statistics indicate that children are among the most vulnerable groups in society. Therefore, the initiative of European Consumer Safety Association and their partners around Europe to create the European Child Safety Alliance is very much welcomed and we are pleased to have been able to provide a financial contribution to the Network. We are noting a growing political interest and activity at the European level on consumer safety issues, which have historically very much been dealt with on national level. The European Child Safety Alliance, gathering experts from all around Europe, is yet another important initiative to develop consumer safety in Europe in a more concrete way’.
‘We in the Commission are committed to do whatever is possible for us to improve the safety for the citizens. One important step was the adoption of the revised Directive on General Product Safety. This Directive will provide the very important improved legal framework based on which we will now be able to take more initiatives. Examples of such initiatives will be to develop an improved networking between Member States to ensure that products placed on the market are safe, to enhance the standards used to define the concrete safety aspects, make
product safety information more publicly available and to improve the systems for injury data collection. Injury data are essential for identifying trends with regard to products involved in accidents. We will also in more detail study the needs to take initiatives in relation to safety and liability for services. The safety aspects are one of the main issues highlighted in the new Consumer Policy Strategy. But in the end, we as a Commission, can only contribute to a safer Europe. Additional activities are needed throughout Europe involving experts, consumers and business. The Child Safety Alliance is a good example of such an initiative’.
Health and Consumer Protection, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium
Corresponding author: Erik Hansson, Directorate General Health and Consumer Protection, Erik.Hansson@cec.eu
World health Organisation
Injuries - an environmental health threat for children
Injuries are a major threat to children’s health with a strong environmental component. Globally, the WHO recognises accidents and injuries such as drowning, burns, traffic accidents and poisoning to be among the most important environmental causes of death and disability for children world-wide.
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