This document outlines various safety hazards for babies and young children and provides tips to avoid dangers. It discusses dangers of falls, choking, burns, cuts, poisoning, electricity, drowning, and accidents in cars or near roads. Key recommendations include using stair gates, locking away medicines, covering electric sockets, never leaving babies alone in water, and always restraining children properly in cars.
This document outlines various safety hazards for babies and young children and provides tips to avoid dangers. It discusses dangers of falls, choking, burns, cuts, poisoning, electricity, drowning, and accidents in cars or near roads. Key recommendations include using stair gates, locking away medicines, covering electric sockets, never leaving babies alone in water, and always restraining children properly in cars.
This document outlines various safety hazards for babies and young children and provides tips to avoid dangers. It discusses dangers of falls, choking, burns, cuts, poisoning, electricity, drowning, and accidents in cars or near roads. Key recommendations include using stair gates, locking away medicines, covering electric sockets, never leaving babies alone in water, and always restraining children properly in cars.
Put babies in bouncing chairs on the Danger of choking and floor,not a table or worktop. suftocation For babies who are crawling and unsteady Keep small objects away from babes toddlers,use a properly fixed stair and small children who minght put them gate,preferably at both top and bottom of in their mouths. stairs Danger of burns and Danger of cuts scalds Low lewel glass in doors and windows is Keep everything hot out of children’s dangerous,especially ancer your child is on reach. Use a fire guard,fixed to the the move. wall,round any kind of open fire Keep all sharp things away from children. (coal,gas or electric) or a hod stove . Danger of poisoning Lock medicines away.don’t keep even the odd bottle out. Danger in cars Watch your child when you’re in The only safe way for other people’s houses. anybody,aduld or child,to travel in Danger of from a car is properly restrained. electricity It is not only extremery Cover electric sockets with safety dangerour but also illegal to hold a covers when not in use. baby in your arms in the fronttseat Repair worn flexes. of car or to let a yourng child travel in the front seat without a restraint Danger of dro wning Nover leave a baby ar young child Danger on the roads alone in the bart h not for a moment. Nover let a child on or near Always watch and stay near chilren roadsalone. playing in or near water ponds,paddling Hold your child’s hand when pools,the sea. you’re out neat roads. Coping with accidents You’ll have to cope with some accidents while your child is young,mostly minor but maybe major
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