Road Safety

ExxonMobil has partnered with Monash University Accident Research Centre to help prevent road accidents among young P Plate drivers. The 'Going Solo' project aims to provide parents with information and strategies to help reduce P Plate driver crash risks. P Plate drivers are 33 times more likely to have a crash than learner drivers and research shows a link between parenting style and young driver crash risk.

Learn more about the Monash University Accident Research Centre Going Solo project.

The Cancer Council Victoria

ExxonMobil has supported the Cancer Council Victoria for over twenty years.  The Cancer Council Victoria has produced a set of cancer fact sheets which are freely available from the Cancer Council Helpline 13 11 20 or from their website www.cancervic.org.au/factsheets.:

• Cut your cancer risk
• Healthy eating to reduce cancer risk
• Caring for someone who has a brain tumour
• Coping with breathlessness caused by cancer or treatments
• Coping with fatigue caused by cancer treatments
• Cancer treatments: established treatments, trials and alternative (unproven) treatments
• Faecal occult blood tests: tests for early signs of
• Bowel cancer: finding it early
• High energy drink supplements
• Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and women who have had breast cancer
• Mesothelioma and other lung disease associated with asbestos
• Cancer pain: common questions
• Prostate problems
• Learning to relax
• Testicular cancer and testicular self-examination

Australian Drug Foundation

ExxonMobil has supported the Australian Drug Foundation (ADF) to produce a series of seven education booklets for parents and teachers. The booklets, which were developed to meet a growing number of requests for information about drug and alcohol issues include:

• Alcohol and Other Drugs: A Guide for Parents
• Parent Focus: Dealing with Drug Issues for 9 to 14-year-olds
• Hosting Teenage Parties: Managing Alcohol and Other Drugs
• Teenage Drinking: The Facts and Issues
• Young People and Drugs: The Facts and Issues
• Safety First: Helping Children to Stay Safe
• Riding the Waves: A Guide to Building Resilience in 10-14 Year-Olds

ExxonMobil has also supported ADF to produce Primary Pathways: An Integrated Approach to Drug Education, for primary school teachers and parents.

For more information on the ADF, including how to order the above publications, please click here.

Hospitals

ExxonMobil has a long tradition of supporting hospitals near our operations.

In a relationship that dates back to the mid 1980s ExxonMobil has assisted the Alfred Hospital to purchase new equipment in the Burns, Intensive Care and Trauma Units at the hospital.

Other hospitals that receive ExxonMobil support include: Central Gippsland, South Gippsland, Frankston and Royal Melbourne.

Child Safety

ExxonMobil Australia has supported the Royal Children’s Hospital Safety Centre for around 16 years to promote injury prevention and community safety education projects.

The Safety Centre has produced a set of fact sheets about child safety for parents.  The topics include:

• Home safety checklist
• Car passenger safety
• Fire safety
• Poisoning prevention
• Kitchen safety
• Pedestrian safety for your child
• Backyard and playground safety
• Children and safety with pets
• Water safety
• Preventing falls
• Nursery furniture and safe sleeping
• Home safety
• Toy safety for pre-school
• Sport & recreation safety
• Farm safety
• Holiday safety
• Choking and suffocation.

The Safety Fact Sheets are freely available from the Royal Children’s Hospital Safety Centre website. Click here  (Go to "Safety Info" and "Home safety checklist" on the left menu).

National Heart Foundation Climb to the Top Challenge

ExxonMobil and its employees were the top fundraisers in the Climb to the Top Challenge in 2005. Over 500 of our employees participated in the event and the Company provided matched funding to support the National Heart Foundation's programs and research.