As bitter conditions continue across the UK this week, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents is issuing a warning about the dangers of frozen-over lakes in a bid to prevent needless deaths. The freezing conditions have already sparked a flurry of calls to RoSPA f...

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents believes the availability of new injury data - shedding light on years of life lost due to accidents and regional variations in injury rates - represents major progress in efforts to have accident prevention embedded as a publ...

Winter deaths and serious injuries due to accidents are not inevitable, says Tom Mullarkey, chief executive of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA). With a massive focus nationally on excess winter deaths and on ensuring that hospitals can cope with incr...

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) today (Monday) launches its third annual Family Safety Week , which this year seeks to raise awareness of accidents to under-fives in the home with a series of events and campaign launches across the UK. RoSPA has te...

With falls the biggest single cause of accidental death, a framework to help house builders ensure the next generation of homes are safer has been launched by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA).   Safer by design: A framework to reduce serious acciden...

A new public health campaign, Keeping Kids Safe in the Home , which aims to reduce the number of domestic accidents involving under 5s in Dundee has been launched by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA).   Evidence shows that falls, poisonings, burns ...

Safe At Home, the national home safety equipment scheme, is starting the new year by making its accident prevention DVD and height charts freely available to home safety practitioners across England. Accidents in the home are the biggest cause of injury to young children. Sa...

Northern Ireland’s annual Home Accident Prevention Week gets underway today with a special focus on staying safe for children who live on farms. During the week, Home Accident Prevention Northern Ireland (HAPNI) will marry traditional home safety messages with those about fa...

Home accidents cost the UK billions of pounds each year, according to research conducted for the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents. The total annual cost of home accident casualties who are treated for their injuries at hospital - around 2.7million people each ...

As the big freeze continues across much of the UK, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents is reminding people - particularly dog walkers - to be aware of the dangers of frozen rivers and lakes. Whenever the country is in the grip of freezing temperatures, RoSPA sa...