This website includes copies of presentations on Falls prevention issues made a various meeting over the past 2 years. There is also a copy of the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care best practice guidelines on Preventing falls and harm from falls in older people - Best practice guidelines for Australian Hospitals and Residential Aged Care Facilities which are being implemented Australia wide.
A national research organisation, specialising in housing and urban research and policy.
Accessibility to the built environment affects a large number of people within society. It is accepted throughout the European Union that at any one time 15-20% of the population will have a significant level of disability of a temporary or permanent nature.
Engineers, planners, and designers have used Leonardo de Vinci’s ‘average man’ as a guideline for their work. It has become the basic model on which the majority of designs are based. Yet there is no such thing as the ‘average man’.
The NSW Home Modification and Maintenance Services (HMMS) State Council is the peak organisation for the HMMS industry in New South Wales.
The Smoke Alarm Battery Replacement for the Elderly Scheme helps to ensure that members of the community who are elderly, or who have a disability are able to have their smoke alarm batteries changed to ensure their continued safety and ability to comply with the legal requirements of NSW legislation, which requires smoke alarms be installed in all areas where people sleep.
This summary bulletin has been put together as a result of legislation across many Australian states requiring that smoke alarms be installed in homes and places where people sleep. The summary bulletin has information on both Hard Wired and Battery-Powered Smoke Alarms and the main methods of smoke detection used.
Complete with diagrams suggesting possible alarm placement, the bulletin may assist consumers and home modification and maintenance providers to appropriately select and place the most suitable smoke detection system in their homes.
The purpose of this document is to outline the process of determining authorship credit and authorship order on collaborative publications between academic, research, general staff and students involved in the HMinfo Clearinghouse Project. Collaborations include those that are cross disciplinary and cross professional in nature, for instance, between university departments and between university and professional practitioners, the service sector and industry.
HMinfo Clearinghouse team protocol for systematic reviews.
This document outlines the process of determining authorship credit and authorship order on collaborative publications between academic, research, general staff and students involved in the HMinfo Clearinghouse Project.
