Description
1 online resource (ii, 67, 19, [2] pages) : charts
Note
Issued also in French under title: Sécurité dans les milieux de vie : guide à l'intention des municipalités du Québec : «pour le mieux-être des citoyens, des citoyennes et des familles».
"Editor:
Renée Levaque, Direction de santé publique de Québec".
"Revision:
Colette Bédard".
"The following government departments contributed financially to the production of this guide:
Ministère de la Famille et de l’Enfance,
Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux,
Ministère de la Sécurité publique,
Ministère des Affaires municipales et de la Métropole".
Summary
"Most municipalities are facing significant budgetary constraints. The investment needed to enhance safety depends on the problems pinpointed and the solutions adopted. Fortunately, when such solutions depend on community cooperation and commitment, they do not necessarily engender additional spending.
For this reason, this guide emphasizes a process aimed at better integrating or promoting initiatives already undertaken by the municipalities. The guide does not propose solutions to each of the problems that the municipalities are likely to encounter but instead suggests a comprehensive strategy aimed at enhancing public safety. The same process thus applies, regardless of existing or anticipated safety problems.
The guide is a reference in the realm of safety. It proposes to the interveners concerned a common language and way of doing things that stresses the importance of cooperation. Moreover, the guide will enable users to consolidate their knowledge by means of a comprehensive concept."--Pages 1, 2.
Contents
1. Safety, a value to be developed - 1.1. Importance of safety problems -- 1.2. Cost of safety problems -- 1.3. Risk populations -- 1.4. Basic notions -- 2. The municipality, a key agent and an essential partner -- 2.1. Powers and role of the municipality -- 2.2. The contribution of key interveners in the realm of safety --
3. Enhancing safety in a municipality --
3.1. Make a clear commitment to the safety of individuals and families --
3.2. Appoint a municipal councillor to be in charge of the safety issues --
3.3. Establish a safety enhancement committee --
3.4. Elaborate and implement a safety enhancement action plan --
3.5. Evaluate various initiatives --
3.6. Safety enhancement process checklist --
4. Concrete examples of the safety enhancement process -- 4.1. City of Mont-Joli -- 4.2.
City of Saint-Hyacinthe -- 4.3.
City of Sherbrooke -- 4.4.
City of Montréal -- Appendix 1.
Other consultation documents -- Appendix 2.
Safety resolution in favour of families and individuals.