Concussion in para sport: the first position statement of the Concussion in Para Sport (CIPS) Group
This statement from the Concussion in Para Sport Group offers considerations for assessment, treatment and return to play after concussion in the para athlete.
Videos and webinars
Supersized vehicles, supersized safety risk (2024) Global road safety actions 2023: What you need to know (2023) Good roads for all: Moving the needle on road safety (2023) Equity in Vision Zero and road safety (2022) Vision Zero: The Next Generation (2022) The role of technology and data in Vision Zero interventions (2022) Cycling in […]
Official contest rules, Canada's Safest Driver
Official Rules The Canada’s Safest Driver Contest (hereinafter “Contest”) is designed to (i) promote safe driving; (ii) improve road safety; (iii) provide insight into how telematics can improve driver safety; and (iv) increase awareness of and participation in Parachute Vision Zero initiatives. The Contest is a contest of skill that measures the driving habits of […]
Horseback riding
Horses can reach speeds up to 60 km/h (37 mph), resulting in more injuries per hour in the saddle than during motorcycle or auto racing. Due to these potential high speeds, the unpredictable behaviour of horses and the distance of the rider from the ground, equestrian athletes are at risk for head and spinal injuries. […]
Infographics
Safe Mobility infographic series Road safety measures have a broad impact on urban communities, with a wide range of benefits ranging from environmental to health. Parachute has created these infographics to explore the intersections among equity, health and wellbeing and the environment and their connections to road safety. We encourage our road safety partners to […]
The Global Plan for the New Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021-2030: What You Need to Know (2022)
The Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021-2030 has been proclaimed by a UN General Assembly Resolution with a target to reduce road traffic deaths and injuries by 50 per cent by 2030, recognizing the gravity of this global issue.
The Decade of Action is underpinned by the Global Plan, launched Oct. 28, 2021, which aims to inspire and guide national and local government, as well other stakeholders who can influence road safety. Those include civil society, academia, the private sector, donors, community and youth leaders, and other stakeholders as they develop supporting national and local action plans and targets. Through advocating for the Safe Systems Approach and providing recommendations based on best practices and research, the plan is an important resource both within Canada and abroad.
The webinar will provide an overview of the Global Plan, including three parts of road safety action: what to do, how to do it and who does it. Panelists will also discuss how road safety needs to be integrated into other policy agendas such as climate action and equity, to increase its reach and influence. The webinar will also refer to Canada’s Road Safety Strategy 2025.
MODERATOR
Brenda Suggett, Executive Director, CARSP
PANELISTS
Raheem Dilgir, President, CARSP
Valerie Smith, Director, Programs, Parachute
Supersized vehicles, supersized safety risk (2024)
Large SUVs and pick-up trucks pose a safety threat to all road users. The collisions where a light truck is involved is both more likely to occur, and to cause fatal or serious injury to the involved vulnerable road user. Join panelists from Transport Canada, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), Équiterre, Piétons Québec and the Coalition to Reduce Auto Size Hazards (CRASH) to learn more about the evidence and discuss how to mobilize and promote use of safer vehicles within Vision Zero.
PANEL:
Samuel Monfort is a Senior Statistician at the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) with a PhD in Human Factors Psychology. His research interests include vulnerable road users, crash compatibility, and the use and misuse of automation.
Dominique Charlebois works at Transport Canada as a Senior Project Manager, Engineering.
Albert Koehl is an Environment Lawyer and Coordinator of CRASH, a Toronto cycling and pedestrian advocate and author of editorials and other publications.
Anne-Catherine Pilon, Sustainable Mobility Analyst at Équiterre advocates for cities and vehicles that are at a human scale and for competitive alternatives to solo cars, through public transit funding.
Francis Garnier is a Public Affairs Analyst at Piétons Québec advocating for pedestrian road safety and transit funding in Québec based in Montréal.
Calling on teen drivers to prevent drugged driving and save lives
Parachute’s National Teen Driver Safety Week wants teens to #GetHomeSafe
Collective action key to creating change that will lead to better, safer roads for all
Change for Good Roads is a new initiative from Parachute, Canada’s national charity dedicated to injury prevention, that brings together a wide range of sectors committed to improving urban road safety in Canada. TORONTO – February 1, 2022. Environment. Inclusion and equity. Accessibility for the elderly and those with disabilities. All these improve when urban roads […]