tips for child safety

Tips for Child Safety Falls Never leave your baby unattended on surfaces above the floor. Keep supplies within arm’s reach. Try to keep a hand on your child at all times, even when using the safety belt on the changing table or pad. Always use safety straps on high chairs, changing tables, infant seats and strollers. Throw out your baby walkers because it has been proven that they increase the risk for injury! Also, be sure that there are no walkers wherever your child is being cared for, such as child care centers or in someone else’s home. If you have a baby or toddler, install hardware-mounted safety gates at the top and bottom of every stairway (pressure-mounted gates aren’t as secure). Have window guards or window stops on upper windows. But make sure you can open the window fast in case of a fire. Burns Hot water burns like fire. Set your home water heater at 120 degrees Fahrenheit or just below the medium setting to prevent burns. Use a water thermometer to test bath water. The water temperature should be at 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Teach young children to stay away from the stove. Put tape on the floor so they can see where the “no-kid-zone” is. Keep hot drinks away from the edge of tables and counters. Don’t use tablecloths or placemats because young children can pull them down. Sleep All healthy babies younger than one year old should be placed on their backs at nap time and at night. The safest place to sleep is in a crib with a firm mattress with a fitted sheet. Babies should not sleep with pillows, quilts, comforters, sheepskins or stuffed toys. Make sure the crib has no raised corner posts or cutouts. The slats on the crib should be no more than 2 3/8 inches apart. Tighten all the screws, bolts and other hardware securely to prevent the crib from collapsing. Many babies on adult beds, couches, or chairs are accidentally suffocated or dropped from the arms of a sleeping parent. THE SAFEST PLACE FOR A BABY TO SLEEP IS IN A CRIB. Medications Keep all prescription and non-prescription medications in child-proof packaging from the pharmacy in a high cabinet or locked medication box. Ask all visitors to your home to be sure that all medications in luggage or purses are secure.

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Tips for Child Safety

Falls

Never leave your baby unattended on surfaces above the floor. Keep supplies within arm’s reach. Try to keep a hand on your child at all times, even when using the safety belt on the changing table or pad.

Always use safety straps on high chairs, changing tables, infant seats and strollers. Throw out your baby walkers because it has been proven that they increase the

risk for injury! Also, be sure that there are no walkers wherever your child is being cared for, such as child care centers or in someone else’s home.

If you have a baby or toddler, install hardware-mounted safety gates at the top and bottom of every stairway (pressure-mounted gates aren’t as secure).

Have window guards or window stops on upper windows. But make sure you can open the window fast in case of a fire.

Burns

Hot water burns like fire. Set your home water heater at 120 degrees Fahrenheit or just below the medium setting to prevent burns. Use a water thermometer to test bath water. The water temperature should be at 100 degrees Fahrenheit.

Teach young children to stay away from the stove. Put tape on the floor so they can see where the “no-kid-zone” is.

Keep hot drinks away from the edge of tables and counters. Don’t use tablecloths or placemats because young children can pull them down.

Sleep

All healthy babies younger than one year old should be placed on their backs at nap time and at night. The safest place to sleep is in a crib with a firm mattress with a fitted sheet. Babies should not sleep with pillows, quilts, comforters, sheepskins or stuffed toys.

Make sure the crib has no raised corner posts or cutouts. The slats on the crib should be no more than 2 3/8 inches apart. Tighten all the screws, bolts and other hardware securely to prevent the crib from collapsing.

Many babies on adult beds, couches, or chairs are accidentally suffocated or dropped from the arms of a sleeping parent. THE SAFEST PLACE FOR A BABY TO SLEEP IS IN A CRIB.

Medications

Keep all prescription and non-prescription medications in child-proof packaging from the pharmacy in a high cabinet or locked medication box. Ask all visitors to your home to be sure that all medications in luggage or purses are secure.

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