{"id":3701,"date":"2013-12-05T04:14:36","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T17:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/?p=3701"},"modified":"2015-04-29T12:07:20","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T02:07:20","slug":"stay-safe-newsletter-2013-issue-2-out-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/stay-safe-newsletter-2013-issue-2-out-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Stay Safe newsletter &#8211; 2013 Issue 2 out now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2013\/12\/Untitled1.jpeg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3707\" alt=\"Untitled\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2013\/12\/Untitled1.jpeg\" width=\"188\" height=\"118\" \/><\/a>Issue 2 of the 2013 <a title=\"Stay Safe newsletter\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/uploadedFiles\/Main\/Content\/safetycentre\/Stay%20Safe%202013-Issue2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Stay Safe<\/a> burns prevention newsletter is now available.<\/p>\n<p>The newsletter is produced by the <a title=\"VBPP\" href=\"http:\/\/vbpp.org.au\/about-us\" target=\"_blank\">Victorian Burns Prevention Partnership<\/a> (VBPP),\u00a0an ongoing collaboration between the <a title=\"RCH Burns Unit\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/burns\/\" target=\"_blank\">RCH Burns Unit<\/a>, the <a title=\"RCH Safety Centre\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/safetycentre\/\" target=\"_blank\">RCH Safety Centre<\/a>, <a title=\"Alfred Health Burns Unit\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alfred.org.au\/burns_unit\" target=\"_blank\">Alfred Health Burns Unit<\/a>\u00a0and our<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>state\u2019s fire services <a title=\"CFA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cfa.vic.gov.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">CFA <\/a>and the\u00a0<a title=\"MFB\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mfb.vic.gov.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">MFB<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The VBPP commenced in 2009 and has continued to produce a seasonal \u2018Stay Safe\u2019 newsletter. The most recent newsletter covers topics such as preventing hair straightener burns, the common causes of burn injury in Australian children, first aid myths for burn injuries, and advice on how you can protect yourself and your property during\u00a0grassfires.<\/p>\n<p>Burn injury is a significant component of the overall burden of injury in Australia with approximately 50,000 burns related hospital admissions per year.<\/p>\n<p>The VBPP aims to reduce the number of burn injuries and fatalities especially among children.\u00a0 With 79 per cent of child burn injuries occurring in the home, a lot can be done to prevent such injuries or minimise the extent of the injury.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Stay Safe newsletter\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/uploadedFiles\/Main\/Content\/safetycentre\/Stay%20Safe%202013-Issue2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to view the latest Stay Safe newsletter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Issue 2 of the 2013 Stay Safe burns prevention newsletter is now available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3701"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3709,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701\/revisions\/3709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}