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Armstrong, Kerry A.; Watling, Hanna; Davey, Jeremy – Health Education Journal, 2016
Objective: While driveway run-over incidents continue to be a cause of serious injury and deaths among young children in Australia, few empirically evaluated educational interventions have been developed which address these incidents. Addressing this gap, this study describes the development and evaluation of a paper-based driveway safety…
Descriptors: Motor Vehicles, Traffic Safety, Foreign Countries, Safety Education
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Barr, Jennifer; Saltmarsh, Sue; Klopper, Christopher – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2009
This article reports on preliminary findings from a 2008 survey and telephone interviews with 27 directors of early childhood education and care (ECEC) services located in regional and rural districts of the Australian state of New South Wales. Data from the study suggests that some areas of safety education--most notably road/traffic safety and…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Traffic Safety, Fire Protection, Young Children
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Lemon, Jim – Journal of At-Risk Issues, 2005
If risk taking is in some measure a signal to others by the person taking risks, the model of "costly signaling" predicts that the more the apparent cost of the risk to others exceeds the perceived cost of the risk to the risk taker, the more attractive that risk will be as a signal. One hundred and twelve visitors to youth…
Descriptors: Intention, Smoking, Health Behavior, Probability