Helmet Survey
Help us With Our Helmet Survey
You or your organization’s assistance in the completion of this project represents an important contribution to Injury Prevention in Windsor and Essex County. Each spring the youth of our community take to the streets on bicycles, skateboards, and in line skates. Each year many of these young people ignore the warnings of parents, teachers and health professionals, and engage in these sports without the benefit of helmets; each year many of these same young people become statistics. We read their names in the newspapers and see coverage on television of ambulances taking them away. We hear little of their recovery or the lack there of. Each year 700 people in Windsor and Essex County sustain a brain injury: 10% of them will not return to their pre-injury status.
In anticipation of Brain Injury Awareness Month in June and as a partner of the Injury Prevention Committee for Road Safety Challenge, we conducts a survey of adults and children riding bicycles, skateboards, rollerblades, electric bikes, etc. to determine the degree to which participants in these sports are in fact wearing helmets. We later publish these results as part of our Brain Injury Awareness Month and our Helmet Distribution Program.
This year we are asking the assistance of the general public. We are asking that members of the public keep copies of the survey handy. Keep some in the car and mentally note your observations; when you arrive at your destination note your observations on the sheet. For location note the general location of your observations, i.e. downtown, Tecumseh West, Kingsville. We ask parents accompanying children to school to note numbers of children riding bicycles and note them in the survey. This is not meant to be a statistically accurate, but rather is meant to capture a general sense of bicycle compliance in the area during this period. Grandparents, service clubs, parent associations, students seeking volunteer hours and church groups can all be of assistance in our desire to significantly increase observations this year.
We are also interested in observations relating to individuals who appear to be using bicycles as a primary means of transportation as this sector has grown of late.
The public’s support of this initiative will be greatly appreciated. Credit for student volunteer hours will be provided.
To qualify for volunteer hours we ask that the student volunteer 1 hour per survey and may complete as many hours as they wish. Students requiring confirmation of volunteer hours completed should provide a name and complete address. Parents should accompany students in elementary school who may complete this survey. Adults may keep a survey in the car, but only note observations on the survey when parked. We ask for your help. This survey is meaningful. Please download the survey (either the pdf or Word document). It is easy and will make a difference.
The Brain Injury Association of Windsor and Essex County thanks you for your participation. Brain Injury can hurt forever and Prevention is the only cure. Your participation is of great help.
