Child Safety Samples

12 Safety Devices to Protect Your Children
According to the Live and Learn toy store, use safety latches and locks for cabinets and drawers in kitchens, bathrooms, and other areas to help prevent poisonings and other injuries. Safety latches and locks on cabinets and drawers can help prevent children from gaining access to medicines and household cleaners, as well as knives and other sharp objects. Use Safety Gates to help prevent falls down stairs and to keep children away from dangerous areas. Safety gates can help keep children away from stairs or rooms that have hazards in them. Look for safety gates that children cannot dislodge easily, but that adults can open and close without difficulty. For the top of stairs, gates that screw to the wall are more secure than "pressure gates." Use Door Knob Covers and Door Locks to help prevent children from entering rooms and other areas with possible dangers. Door knob covers and door locks can help keep children away from places with hazards, including swimming pools. Use Anti-Scald Devices for faucets and showerheads and set your water heater temperature to 120 degrees Fahrenheit to help prevent burns from hot water. Anti-scald devices for regulating water temperature can help prevent burns.

Secondhand Smoke
As a childcare provider, you play a critical role in the lives of the children in your care. An important part of that role can be protecting children from secondhand smoke. You can ensure them a smoke-free environment while in your care and can introduce information and actions that can be taken at home to reduce children's exposure. Creating and encouraging a smoke-free environment for children contributes to their safe and healthy development and overall well-being. The ABCs of Secondhand Smoke Training Module for Child Care Providers has been developed to serve as a resource for reducing children's exposure to secondhand smoke in the home. Reducing children's exposure to secondhand smoke means changing the behavior of adults. Website contains more about the training module.

Childproof Your Home from Baby World
This site from Baby World covers a wide range of potential hazards in your home for small children. Some of the tips include getting down on your hands and knees and looking at the home from your child's point of view. Parents should take a good long look at their home long before their child starts to crawl. Once a child begins crawling it becomes much more difficult to find the time and the energy to take care of everything that needs to be made more safe. Most accidents involving small children occur between the hours of 6:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. when people are just starting to get tired and careless. Another frequent time for accidents is when a parent is distracted by things like cooking a meal. Remember, it only takes a child an instant to get into something they are not supposed to get into to. According to this site Childproofing your home has been described as the single most important child safety measure since the invention of the child car seat.

Food Safety for Children
A collection of government and non-government links regarding food safety lessons for kids, food safety games, food hygiene, super scrub and bubbles, investigation a food-borne disease outbreak at school, the food safety mobile game, bugs in the news, fighting bacteria, kids fun zone, infection detection protection, mad science microbiology, the scrub club and the virtual bacteria identification lab.