Hazard is the bi-annual journal of the Victorian Injury Surveillance Unit (VISU) (formerly VISAR). Information about injuries and their prevention is disseminated through this publication. The issues reviewed in Hazard are chosen because of a combination of the severity, frequency and preventability of the injury type.
If you would like more information about Hazard, please contact
Janneke Berecki-Gisolf - Associate Director VISU
Browse the Hazard index by issue. Other sources of information, such as MUARC reports on specific injury topics, are also listed below.
Hazard Edition Index
| TOPIC | Hazard edition [pdf] | MUARC reports | Other |
| Consumer products | 61, 75 | 83, 162, 168 | Consumer product safety websites http://www.productsafety.gov.au/content
/index.phtml/itemId/970225 http://www.cpsc.gov/ |
| Regional profiles | 46, 54 | | |
| - Hume | | 95, 131 | - Injury Prevention 2002;8:18-22 |
| - Latrobe Valley | 9, sp1, sp2 | 113, 114, 151, 190 | - Injury Prevention 2001;7:66-69 |
| School injury | 10, 29, 53 | | |
| Socio-economic status and injury | 49, 70 | | |
| Sports | 8, 9, 15, 30, 51, 66, 74 | Sports injury countermeasure reports | |
| - baseball | | | - Brochure |
| - basketball | 51 | | - Brochure |
| - boating related | 56 | | Marine Safety in Victoria 2008-2009 – VISU research report Marine Safety in Victoria 2007-2008 – VISU research report Follow up of hospital treated boating injury – VISU research report Follow up of hospital treated boating injury: the longer term effects – VISU research report Review of the literature – VISU research report |
| - cricket | 51 | | - Brochure |
| - cycling (incl. BMX) | 2, 6, 7, 8, 10, 31, 34, 44, 51, 65 | 2, 32, 45, 51, 59, 64, 75, 76 | - IP abstract |
| - exercise equipment | 5, 9, 50 | | VISU Fact Sheet -exercise bikes VISU Fact Sheet - treadmills |
| - football (AFL) | 51 | | - Brochure |
| - golf | | | - Brochure |
| - hockey | | | - Brochure |
| - horse related sports | 7, 51 | 103 | |
| - in line skating | 15, 25, 31, 51 | 133 | - Brochure |
| - lawn bowls | | | - Brochure |
| - martial arts | 11 | | |
| - netball | 51 | | - Brochure |
| - running | | | - Brochure |
| - scooter riding | 44, 78 | | - Injury Prevention 2001; 7-:165-167 |
| - skateboarding | 51, 78 | | - Brochure |
| - snow sports | 66 | | - Brochure - cross country - Brochure - downhill skiing - Brochure - snowboarding |
| - soccer | 51 | | - Brochure |
| - softball | | | - Brochure |
| - surfing | 56 | | |
| - tennis | | | VISU Fact Sheet VISU Fact Sheet |
| - trail bike riding | 31, 51 | | |
| - trampolines | 13, 42, 44, 61,75 | | |
| - volleyball | | | - Brochure |
| - yoga | | | - Brochure |
| Surveillance system/ data developments | 1, 2, 26, 28, 30, 40, 43, 50 | 72, 113 | |
| Subject | Edition | Other Resources |
|---|
| Asphyxia | 60 | |
| Assaults | 55,73,79 | |
| Babywalkers, update | 16,20,25,34 | |
| Baseball | 30 | |
| Boating - related recreational injury | 56 | |
| Bunkbeds | 11,75 | MUARC Report 123 |
| Button Batteries | 75 | |
| Bicycles - | | |
| Bicycle related | 6,31,34,44,65 | |
| Cyclist Head Injury Study | 2,7,8,10 | |
| Burns - | | |
| Scalds, Burns prevention | 3,12,25 | |
| Unintentional burns and scalds in vulnerable populations | 57 | |
| Child Care settings | 16,76 | |
| Client survey results | 28 | |
| Co-morbidity analysis | 80 | |
| Cutting and piercing (unintentional) | 52, 55 | MUARC Report 158 |
| Subject | Edition | Other Resources |
| Data base use, interpretation& example form | 2 | |
| Deaths from Injury (Victoria) | 11,38,76,80 | |
| Dishwasher machine detergents - Update | 18 | |
| DIY maintenance injuries | 41 | Prevention of injuries associated with DIY
DIY Brochure |
| Dog Bites, dog related injuries | 3,12,25,26,34,69 | Injury Prevention |
| Domestic architectural glass | 7,22,25 | |
| Domestic Violence | 21,30,79 | 63 |
| Drowning/near drowing, including updates | 2,5,7,30,34,55 | Family Friendly Beaches Victoria |
| Elastic luggage straps | 43 | VISU Fact Sheet |
| Escalator | 24 | |
| Exercise bicycles, update | 5,9 | |
| Falls - Child, Older Persons, Home, Bunk Beds | 44,45,48,59,65,75,77,78,80 | |
| Farm, Tractors | 30,33,24,47,68 | Rural Injury Prevention
Preventing Farm Injuries
MUARC Report 155 |
| Finger jam (hand entrapment) | 10,14,16,25,59 | |
| Fireworks | 47 | Injuries associated with fireworks in Victoria: an epidemiological overview |
| Subject | Edition | Other Resources |
|---|
| Geographic regions of injury | 46 | |
| Health Service Areas | 76 | |
| Home | 14,32,59,65,76,80 | MUARC Report 158 |
| Horse related | 7,23 | |
| Infants - injuries in the first year of life | 8 | |
| Injury surveillance developments inc. ICD10 coding | 30,43 | |
| Intentional | 13,79 | |
| Latrobe Valley - | | |
| First 3 months, Injury surveillance and prevention | 9 | |
| Ladders | 63 | |
| Lawnmowers | 22, 52 | VISU Fact Sheet |
| Subject | Edition | Other Resources |
|---|
| Marine animals | 56 | |
| Martial arts | 11 | |
| Mobility scooters | 62 | |
| Motor vehicle related, non-traffic, vehicle jack injuries | 20,63 | |
| Motorcycles | 64,65,81 | |
| Needlestick injuries | 11,17,25 | |
| Nursery furniture | 37,44 | Keeping Kids Safe |
| Older people | 19, 45, 48, 50, 62, 67, 80 | MUARC Reports 57, 118, 162 |
| Off-street parking areas | 20 | |
| Pedestrians | 71,72 | |
| Playground equipment | 3, 10, 14, 16, 25, 29, 44, 51, 61, 65, 77, | 193 |
| Poisons - | | |
| Domestic chemical and plant poisoning | 28 | |
| Drug safety and poison control | 2, 4, 27, 39, 47 | |
| Dishwasher detergent, update | 10,6 | |
| Early Childhood, Child resistant closures | 27,2,47 | Unintentional poisoning hospitalisations among young children in Victoria |
| Adult overview | 39 | |
| Other poisoning agents | 6, 10, 18, 28 | MUARC Report 139 |
| Power saws, Chainsaws | 22, 28, 52 | |
| Residential Institutions | 76 | |
| Road injury | 36,65,76 | |
| Roller Blades, Skateboards, Scooters | 2,5,25,31,44,78 | |
| Subject | Edition | Other Publications |
|---|
| School | 10,76 | |
| Settings for Injury | 76 | |
| Shopping trolleys | 22,25,42 | VISU Fact Sheet |
| Smoking-related | 21,25,29,44 | |
| Socio-economic status and injury | 49,70 | |
| Sports - child, adult, surf, snow | 8,9,44,15,51,56,66,74,76 | |
| Suicide - motor vehicle exhaust gas | 11,20,25,41 | MUARC Reports 139 |
| Trade and service areas | 76 | |
| Trail bikes | 31 | |
| Trampolines | 13,42,61,75 | |
| Vapouriser units | 43 | VISU Fact Sheet |
| Venomous bites and stings | 35 | VISU Fact Sheet |
| VISS: How it works, progress, A decade of Victorian Injury Surveillance | 1,26,40 | |
| VISAR: Celebration of VISAR achievements, VISAR name change to VISU | 50,61 | |
| Work-related | 17,18,58,76 | |
