Monash University Accident Research Centre video

Vision: Monash University Logo

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Title: Professor Rod McLure - Director, Monash University Accident Research Centre

Rod McLure: "MUARC is the Monash University Accident Research Centre. It's a global research centre with bases in Australia, South Africa, Asia and Europe."

Description: Monash University Centre in Prato, Italy.

Rod McLure:"MUARC is a scientific research organisation that has taken on the problem of injury.

"What we do is identify the causes of injury..."

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• Crash test dummy being strapped into a car.
• A test car smashing into a concrete pole

"...we establish solutions..."

Description: Two booklets titled 'Going Solo' (for P plater drivers) and 'Used car safety ratings'.

Rod McLure:"...and we work with government, industry and the community to put those solutions into practice to prevent injuries and save lives."

Description: Vision from a car safety television advertisement with a slogan, 'Drop 5. Save lives'.

Rod McLure:"MUARC has raised the profile and raised the importance of injury prevention. Injury prevention is something that we can all do.

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• Carpenter cutting wood during a house construction.
• Road workers on a suburban road wearing safety vests

Rod McLure:"It needs to be part of all our activities. It needs to be a performance indicator for all systems.

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• Young girl sitting on floor pouring pills into her hand.

Rod McLure:"MUARC has very clearly stood up as a champion for the injury prevention cause.

Rod McLure:"The second thing that MUARC has done is to advance the science on which injury prevention is based..."

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• Woman looking at a computer screen showing a computer-generated model of a car.
• A person on a motorcycle in a simulator with a computer-generated street scene project on a screen infront of them.

Rod McLure:"...and the third thing that MUARC has done is to assist government, industry and the community to make a real difference to reducing the injury rates that have occurred in a number of major areas which account for most of the public health problem of injury."

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• Building site
• Older man driving a car

Rod McLure:"An example of this is road safety, farm safety and the safety of young children and older people."

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• Police car and police van.
• Woman climbing into a tractor
• Young girl in car seat
• Older women in an aerobics class

Rod McLure:"MUARC in the future is going to continue the work that it has done in the last 20 years to advance the science.

"Continue the work that it has done to take science to practice and continue to champion the cause of injury prevention as a universal endeavour."

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Title: Join the Monash research community
Monash University Accident Research Centre logo

http://www.monash.edu.au/muarc/

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