Keeping Children Safe: Sample Resources

Childproof Your Home
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.

Choosing and Using Occupant Restraints
Information about the proper use of child restraints and seat belts including restraint selection, harnessing children in child restraints, and the basics of installation. This site contains the basics for child restraints and seat belts, choosing and using seat belts, harnessing and installation, the basics of using seatbelts, latches, child restraints in school buses and airplanes, recalls, transporting children, as well as a section about children and airbags. Training resources as well as a contact list is included.

Child Safety Recalls
Find out what products have been recalled with this up to date database of recall notices. Also includes a section on child safety book reviews, and health news. Safety tips are also noted. There is a section of articles about unintentional poisoning, pool hazards, baby safety, water safety tips and more. Sections on parenting, newborns, preschoolers, K-12 students and more child safety forums are included.

Safe Kids
The National SAFE KIDS Campaign is the first and only national non-profit organization dedicated solely to the prevention of unintentional childhood injury: the number one killer of children ages 14 and under. More than 300 state and local SAFE KIDS coalitions in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico comprise the Campaign. Children's National Medical Center and Founding Sponsor Johnson and Johnson launched the campaign. Site includes links to public policy, safety education activities for kids, conference information, research information, certifications, a resource catalog and safety seat guide.