Monday 1 June – Sunday 7 June 2015 is a very important week for promoting accident prevention involving children.
Every year CAPT (Child Accident Prevention Trust) work hard to get the nation watching, making and talking about accident prevention. The aim of Child Safety Week is to raise awareness of the large number of accidents that can seriously injure or kill children every year and the steps that can be taken to prevent these from happening.
The theme for Child Safety Week 2015 is “Tea Time Terrors” which focuses on all of the possible accidents that can happen at a hectic time of day when attention 
is stretched and pressure to get things done quickly is at its peek. Everything from the evening school run to bed time is at the forefront of this years campaign.
As with any charity event, there’s a whole host of information online to read up on. We’ve included some useful links at the bottom of this post if you’re interested.
Food for thought:
- Babies and children are much more susceptible to burns than adults because their skin is 15 times thinner
- A hot drink can scald a child up to 15 minutes after its been made
- According to medical professionals, one of the worst injuries a child can suffer is burns from bath water
- It takes just 5 seconds for a toddler to develop a severe burn from water out of the hot water tap
- Hair straighteners are as hot as an iron and hold their heat for up to 8 minutes after they’ve been switched off
- Child resistant bottle tops aren’t child proof. It can take 3 or 4 year olds just seconds to figure them out
- The most common type of poisoning within children is from everyday painkillers and other medicines
- Children find everything interesting, including bottles of household cleaner such as bleach which can cause serious side affects
- Children are at greater risk of easily choking because their throats are smaller than an adults. Anything smaller than the diameter of a 2 pence piece can cause a child to choke
- The most common causes of choking in children is pieces of food
- Choking can be silent with no warning signs to tell you any things wrong
Read, get involved and learn more:
- http://childalert.co.uk/streetsmartkids/
- http://www.childsafetyweek.org.uk/
- http://www.capt.org.uk/get-involved/child-safety-week
- http://www.cfoa.org.uk/12030
- http://www.staffordshirefire.gov.uk/1114.asp
- www.mothercare.com/first-aid-emergencies
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http://www.safenetwork.org.uk/news_and_events/news_articles/Pages/child-safety-week-2014.aspx
http://www.safenetwork.org.uk/news_and_events/news_articles/Pages/Child-Safety-Week-2015.aspx
Free child first aid demonstrations:
http://www.sja.org.uk/sja/what-we-do/latest-news/news-archive/news-stories-from-2010/june/mothercare-child-safety-week.aspx
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