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Paraffin Safety Association of Southern Africa The Paraffin Safety Association of Southern Africa (also known as PASASA) is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to ensuring the safe use of paraffin in the domestic environment.〔(The Paraffin Safety Association Company Profile )〕 PASASA was founded in 1996 by the petroleum industry of South Africa as a response to high incidents of paraffin incidents and poisoning amongst children at that time. PASASA is headquartered in Cape Town, South Africa and has offices in Durban, King William’ Town and Pretoria, South Africa. The goal of Paraffin Safety Association of Southern Africa is three-fold: 1. Provide training and educational material to paraffin users though a network of partnerships. These include NGOs community groups, emergency and healthcare workers, herbalists or any other group or individual who can effectively disseminate safety information. It has trained a corps of master trainers who will train and provide educational material in 11 official languages to these community partners. 2. Work with industry, regulatory organisations and other bodies〔(Minerals and Energy Minister acknowledges the need to resolve the issue of paraffin safety )〕 to set safety standards and lobbying government to have these made mandatory.〔(State of Energy in South African Cities 2006 )〕 Now that government has gazetted legislation on stove standards, the Paraffin Safety Association is focussing on packaging standards to ensure paraffin is sold in clearly marked, childproof containers. 3. Compile a knowledge base about the domestic use of paraffin and its consequences by conducting incidence surveillance, research, and collating and interpreting all available information. ==Provincial presence== In 2003 the Paraffin Safety Association of Southern Africa decided to extend its interventions beyond the head office in Cape Town so that there could be a provincial presence and projects across the country. In 2004, two provincial offices were opened in Durban and Johannesburg. The Johannesburg office moved to Pretoria in October 2008. The PASASA strategy in provinces is to select an area whose community uses paraffin as their main source of energy, do a baseline survey on this community and then design an intervention programme based on the results of the survey. These programmes are termed Area Specific Interventions (ASIs) at PASASA. As at January 2011, PASASA had ten ASIs in eight provinces of South Africa and works with them for a period of a year and half before moving to the next ASI. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Paraffin Safety Association of Southern Africa」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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