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Insights from new A&E data will be heard for the first time during an annual conference being held by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) to help improve home safety.  

The safety charity’s chief executive Tom Mullarkey and deputy chief executive Errol Taylor will be among 10 speakers at the 2014 RoSPA Home Safety Congress on November 5, where they will present new home safety data and discuss how to prioritise home and leisure accidents.  

Their keynote speech will also cover RoSPA’s public health prioritisation model as well as the charity’s work with the College of Emergency Medicine and Oxford University Hospitals Trust A&E.  

Delegates can also be part of a discussion on carbon monoxide, which will include case studies on families whose lives have been saved by CO alarms.  

Other speakers at the event, titled Delivering What Works: Improving Public Health by Reducing Accidents, include Lisa Morgan, housing improvement officer at Wolverhampton City Council, Anju Rooney, community engagement/health promotion at Liverpool City Council, and Stevie Johnson, manager of the Eye Clinic Impact Team at RNIB.  

Also giving talks on the day will be David Kidney, chief executive of the UK Public Health Register (UKPHR), Claire Haworth, accident prevention manager at Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council, and Morag MacKay, project leader at the European Child Safety Alliance.  

The conference, being held at thestudio, in Canon Street, Birmingham, will be a chance for practitioners in the public health and injury prevention field to find out more about the innovative approaches emerging within the public health arena, and will cover areas including home safety solutions, opportunities to get public health recognition, availability of data and strategic approaches to home injury prevention.  

There will also be discussions on liquitab ingestion injuries and the importance of child safety and accident prevention in the home.

Sheila Merrill, RoSPA’s public health adviser, said: “We are delighted to be once again hosting the RoSPA Home Safety Congress, giving practitioners working across the public health and injury prevention fields an insight into good practice in home safety.

“This year, the theme is bringing safety home and we will be highlighting the impact of innovative approaches from the UK and Europe, investigating new home safety data and highlighting how the new public health workforce can gain recognition within the public health arena.”

The event will be using the Twitter hashtag #bringsafetyhome to coincide with this year’s theme. To find out more about the event visitwww.rospa.com/events/home/