Early Years Children - Safety

Indoor Safety

Ensure your child is safe from accidents, burns, poisonings, and other potential tragedies in your home and others.

• Blind & Curtain Cords - Babies and young children who have access to looped or long blind and curtain cords can strangle or become entangled.
• Bunk Bed Safety
• Electronic Cigarettes (e-cigarettes) and the Health and Safety Risk for Children 
• Injury Prevention - Follow this link for information about how to prevent common childhood injuries.
• Is your Child Safe?
• Poison Prevention - Tips on safe practices on handling and storing hazardous and or poisonous household products.
• Poison Information Centres in Canada Pet Safety - There are things you should consider before bringing a pet into your home.
• Healthy Pets, Healthy People - How to avoid the diseases that pets can spread to people.
• Preventing Tap Water Scalds
• Secondhand Smoke Fact Sheet - Children are particularly vulnerable to secondhand smoke because they breathe faster than adults, and absorb higher amounts of the toxic substances found in secondhand smoke.