Home Safety
If you could make one place a safe haven for your children, where would it be? For many parents, the answer is their homes. Yet research shows more than 4.5 million children are injured in the home every year.
Taking simple prevention measures and closely supervising your children can help protect them from common household hazards, such as fires, burns, drowning, suffocation, choking, firearm injury, poisoning and falls. A few easy, relatively inexpensive steps – locking household cleaning materials in a cabinet out of reach, installing carbon monoxide detectors and smoke alarms, blocking stairways with baby gates – can greatly reduce your child’s risk of injury in the home. Explore the links below to learn more.
To learn more about falls, airway obstruction and other home injuries read A Report to the Nation: Trends in Unintentional Childhood Injury Mortality, 1987-2000 (May 2003).
To purchase educational materials about home safety, check out our Resource Catalog (off-site link).
