Safety at home, in the community and beyond
A safe home environment is essential to health and wellbeing, throughout life. Safety within our homes has a great influence on our health but is an area where perhaps we don’t give enough attention to.
Accidents happen more in the home than anywhere else. There are countless home safety hazards such as falls and fires but being aware of them is the first step to preventing accidents.
Children under five, older people and the vulnerable, are most likely to have an accidents at home, so home safety hazards are something we should all be aware of. Look at the link below or the local and national resources to get started.
Preventing accidents in the home
Safety outside of the home is also important to our health so a range of additional resources are shown below, a range of information from how we travel, stay safe in water to being aware of product and food recalls.
Why are mini eggs a big safety risk?
It’s that time of year again when mini eggs are lining the shelves. But did you know that they’re the perfect size and shape to completely block a small child’s airway and choke them? The Child Accident Prevention Trust have created a free choking fact sheet for more information. Find out more