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Amateur players need to beware of long term effects of concussion
27 February 2013
While it’s important to recognise the risk of brain injury in our elite hockey, rugby, AFL, rugby union, etc players – it’s also critically important to recognise these same injuries can be happening to our kids every weekend, with much more serious resul
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Reducing the rural road toll is a matter of time
29 January 2013
More than half of the road fatalities in Australia occur on rural roads, and the greatest investment we can make to mitigate this is reducing speed limits on many of these roads. Indeed, fatal crashes and the cost of all road trauma on rural roads could b
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Smart road to safety
5 January 2013
To reduce deaths on Victorian roads to effectively 20 per cent of what it was 40 years ago has been a massive achievement. But we can’t stop here.
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Big killers overshadow a simple one – injury
2 January 2013
The Australian Bureau of Statistics Causes of Death data for 2010 paints an interesting picture of how the lives of 150,000 Australians ended that year.
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Is prevention better than cure?
19 December 2012
A doctor who has spent his career treating sports injuries has visited Monash University to incorporate more prevention strategies into his repertoire.
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Mandatory vehicle inspections – are they worth it?
6 December 2012
New research which weighed the safety benefits of periodic vehicle inspections against the expense to motorists found that very frequent inspections don't prevent enough crashes to justify the costs.
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Tackling sports injury head on
1 November 2012
Australia’s premier sports injury prevention centre has attracted the attention of Canadian academic Professor Claude Goulet, who has spent more than 15 years researching safety promotion in sport and physical activities.
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Scholarship in memory of Professor Thomas Triggs
17 October 2012
A pioneer of Australian road safety research has been honoured with the establishment of the Thomas Triggs Memorial Scholarship.
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Systematically safer workplaces
10 September 2012
Injury-free workplaces are becoming a more realistic goal through research that examines not only the working environment, but how employees interact with it and the role that culture plays.
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Is community sport still safe?
2 August 2012
A comprehensive analysis has shown that hospitalisation rates for community sports such as hockey, basketball, cricket, netball, soccer and football have remained more-or-less constant over the past decade.
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Why do cyclists run red lights?
31 July 2012
Almost 40 per cent of cyclists have reported committing red light infringements, but fines should only be part of the strategy to improve safety, according to new research.
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Study prompts safety precautions for cyclists
27 July 2012
Interviews with cyclists hospitalised following road crashes have reinforced the importance of measures such as wearing helmets and bike lights, and better interaction between all road users.
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The Olympic standard of research
26 July 2012
Australia's premier sports injury prevention research centre is one of four worldwide to be chosen by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to help keep athletes injury-free.
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A first look at rural cycling in Australia
23 July 2012
Regional cyclists are negotiating some unique obstacles, including trucks and high vehicle speeds, according to the first study of safety issues impacting cyclists and drivers in rural areas in Australia.
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A PhD over troubled water
31 May 2012
Dr Damian Morgan's PhD itself was never in troubled waters -- it even won him the prestigious Mollie Holman medal -- but the research results could lead swimmers into safer currents.
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Managing displaced people following a disaster
17 May 2012
Disaster health practitioners and emergency services managers will hear about new ideas for managing internally displaced people after a disaster at a Monash University forum.
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Making sense of concussion management
14 May 2012
A major survey by Monash researchers will delve into the brains of community football club coaches and trainers, looking into their knowledge of concussion management.
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Mortality reporting system alive and well
10 May 2012
A Monash University academic has conducted a world-first evaluation of Vietnam's 20-year-old A6 mortality reporting system.
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Intensive training for road safety leaders
3 May 2012
Australia's most respected accident research centres will launch an intensive new training program for senior executives from across Australia and the Asia-Pacific.
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An offensive play on sport injury
18 April 2012
A Monash researcher will be playing hardball when she tackles sports injury prevention at an upcoming seminar.
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