[Swiss Council for Prevention of Accidents - its position and tasks]

The Swiss council for the prevention of accidents (BfU), founded in 1937, is a private institution, financed half by the Swiss national accident insurance fund (Suva) and half by Unfalldirektorenkonferenz (UDK), for the prevention of accidents on the roads, in sport and in the home. It has a full-time staff of 38 traffic engineers, traffic education experts, statisticians, lawyers, traffic psychologists and information specialists. In addition it has the practical assistance of over 800 municipal and cantonal security delegates. The BfU conducts accident research partly on its own and partly in collaboration with scientific institutes and acts as a coordinator for all institutions dealing with problems of nonindustrial accident prevention.